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We were the last romantics - chose for theme
Traditional sanctity and loveliness.
William Butler Yeats
Coole Park and Ballylee

The years like great black oxen tread the world,
And God the herdsman goads them on behind,
And I am broken by their passing feet.
William Butler Yeats
The Countess Cathleen

A woman can be proud and stiff
When on love intent;
But Love has pitched his mansion in
The place of excrement;
For nothing can be sold or whole
That has not been rent.
William Butler Yeats
Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop

Nor dread nor hope attend
A dying animal;
A man awaits his end
Dreading and hoping all.
William Butler Yeats
Death

He knows death to the bone -
Man has created death.
William Butler Yeats
Death

Down by the sally gardens my love and I did meet;
She passed the sally gardens with little snow-white feet.
She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree;
But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree.
William Butler Yeats
Down by the Sally Gardens

She bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs;
But I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears.
William Butler Yeats
Down by the Sally Gardens

I have met them at close of day
Coming with vivid faces
From counter or desk among grey
Eighteenth-century houses.
I have passed with a nod of the head
Or polite meaningless words.
William Butler Yeats
Easter, 1916

All changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.
William Butler Yeats
Easter, 1916

Too long a sacrifice
Can make a stone of the heart.
William Butler Yeats
Easter, 1916

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