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I shudder and I sigh to think
That even Cicero
And many-minded Homer were
Mad as the mist and snow.
William Butler Yeats
Mad as the Mist and Snow

Did that play of mine sent out
Certain men the English shot?
William Butler Yeats
The Man and the Echo

We have fed the heart on fantasies,
The heart's grown brutal from the fare.
William Butler Yeats
Meditations in Time of Civil War, No 6

When I play on my fiddle in Dooney,
Folk dance like a wave of the sea.
William Butler Yeats
The Fiddler of Dooney

For the good are always the merry,
Save by an evil chance,
And the merry love the fiddle,
And the merry love to dance.
William Butler Yeats
The Fiddler of Dooney

Dance there upon the shore;
What need have you to care
For wind or water's roar?
William Butler Yeats
To a Child Dancing in the Wind

Being young you have not known
The fool's triumph, nor yet
Love lost as soon as won.
William Butler Yeats
To a Child Dancing in the Wind

What need have you to dread
The monstrous crying of wind?
William Butler Yeats
To a Child Dancing in the Wind

Think where man's glory most begins and ends
And say my glory was I had such friends.
William Butler Yeats
The Municipal Gallery Re-visited

Why, what could she have done, being what she is?
Was there another Troy for her to burn?
William Butler Yeats
No Second Troy

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W. B. Yeats: Irish Poet, Dramatist. Born 1865. Died 1939. Nobel Literature Prize 1923.