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The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
William Butler Yeats
The Second Coming

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be down?
William Butler Yeats
The Second Coming

Far-off, most secret and inviolate Rose,
Enfold me in my hour of hours.
William Butler Yeats
The Secret Rose

A woman of so shining lovliness
That men threshed corn at midnight by a tress,
A little stolen tress.
William Butler Yeats
The Secret Rose

But fumble in a greasy till
And add the halfpence to the pence
And pray to shivering prayer, until
You have dried the marrow from the bone.
William Butler Yeats
September 1913

For men were born to save and pray.
William Butler Yeats
September 1913

Romantic Ireland's dead and gone,
It's with O'Leary in the grave.
William Butler Yeats
September 1913

Was it for this the wild geese spread
The grey wing upon every tide;
For this that all that blood was shed.
William Butler Yeats
September 1913

O, who would have foretold
That the heart grows old?
William Butler Yeats
A Song

Though I am old with wandering
Through hollow lands and hilly lands,
I will find out where she has gone,
And kiss her lips and take her hands.
William Butler Yeats
The Song of Wandering Aengus

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