William Butler Yeats Poems

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61.
The Circus Animals' Desertion

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I sought a theme and sought for it in vain,
I sought it daily for six weeks or so.
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62.
Love Song

My love, we will go, we will go, I and you,
And away in the woods we will scatter the dew;
And the salmon behold, and the ousel too,
My love, we will hear, I and you, we will hear,
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63.
A Nativity

WHAT woman hugs her infant there?
Another star has shot an ear.
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64.
Meditations In Time Of Civil War

SURELY among a rich man s flowering lawns,
Amid the rustle of his planted hills,
Life overflows without ambitious pains;
And rains down life until the basin spills,
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65.
Death

NOR dread nor hope attend
A dying animal;
A man awaits his end
Dreading and hoping all;
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66.
The Cat And The Moon

THE cat went here and there
And the moon spun round like a top,
And the nearest kin of the moon,
The creeping cat, looked up.
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67.
Words

I HAD this thought a while ago,
'My darling cannot understand
What I have done, or what would do
In this blind bitter land.'
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68.
In Memory Of Eva Gore-Booth And Con Markiewicz

The light of evening, Lissadell,
Great windows open to the south,
Two girls in silk kimonos, both
Beautiful, one a gazelle.
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69.
Ephemera

'YOUR eyes that once were never weary of mine
Are bowed in sotrow under pendulous lids,
Because our love is waning.'
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70.
A Poet To His Beloved

I BRING you with reverent hands
The books of my numberless dreams,
White woman that passion has worn
As the tide wears the dove-grey sands,
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