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| 1282. | The People by William Butler Yeats | | 'What have I earned for all that work,' I said,
'For all that I have done at my own charge?
The daily spite of this unmannerly town,
Where who has ... |
| 1283. | The Shadowy Waters: The Harp of Aengus by William Butler Yeats | |
Edain came out of Midhir's hill, and lay
Beside young Aengus in his tower of glass,
Where time is drowned in odour-laden winds
And Druid moons, a... |
| 1284. | Shepherd And Goatherd by William Butler Yeats | | Shepherd. That cry's from the first cuckoo of the year.
I wished before it ceased.
Goatherd. Nor bird nor beast
Could make me wish f... |
| 1285. | Against Unworthy Praise by William Butler Yeats | | O heart, be at peace, because
Nor knave nor dolt can break
What's not for their applause,
Being for a woman's sake.
Enough if the work has seemed,... |
| 1286. | The Poet Pleads With The Elemental Powers by William Butler Yeats | | The Powers whose name and shape no living creature knows
Have pulled the Immortal Rose;
And though the Seven Lights bowed in their dance and wept,
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| 1287. | He Reproves The Curlew by William Butler Yeats | | O curlew, cry no more in the air,
Or only to the water in the West;
Because your crying brings to my mind
passion-dimmed eyes and long heavy hair
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| 1289. | Paudeen by William Butler Yeats | | Indignant at the fumbling wits, the obscure spite
Of our old paudeen in his shop, I stumbled blind
Among the stones and thorn-trees, under morning l... |
| 1290. | The Delphic Oracle Upon Plotinus by William Butler Yeats | | Behold that great Plotinus swim,
Buffeted by such seas;
Bland Rhadamanthus beckons him,
But the Golden Race looks dim,
Salt blood blocks his eyes.... |
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