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A Deep-Sworn Vow by William Butler Yeats

10/7/2008 10:39:25 AM
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(1865-1939)
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A Deep-Sworn Vow
 
  OTHERS because you did not keep
That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine;
Yet always when I look death in the face,
When I clamber to the heights of sleep,
Or when I grow excited with wine,
Suddenly I meet your face.

William Butler Yeats


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O Anna Niemus (6/4/2008 10:09:00 AM)
This is one of my 108 favorite poems
Carol Morrison (4/8/2007 10:09:00 AM)
Despite the note below this lovely poem, it is about neither sleep, death, nor friend! Read it. It is like all truly great poems in that it is not entirely explainable, but I can say that it is about a depth of love and loss that cannot be assuaged. Yeats has had lovers since, but at all unguarded moments, he remembers his only great love-very likely his wife (the deep-sworn vow) who was unfaithful to him.

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