(13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939 / County Dublin / Ireland)

poet William Butler Yeats
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A Bronze Head

HERE at right of the entrance this bronze head,
Human, superhuman, a bird's round eye,
Everything else withered and mummy-dead.
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  • Dr.subhendu Kar (11/13/2011 9:02:00 AM)

    brilliance burns in metaphors........what was left for massacre to save.....

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  • Raymond Dotterer (6/30/2009 11:07:00 AM)

    One of Yeats weaker poems in my opinion.

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