Book: Michael Robartes and the Dancer

• A Prayer For My Daughter

  ONCE more the storm is howling, and half hid
  Under this cradle-hood and coverlid

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• An Image From A Past Life

  i{He.} Never until this night have I been stirred.
  The elaborate starlight throws a reflection

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• Demon And Beast

  FOR certain minutes at the least
  That crafty demon and that loud beast

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• Under Saturn

  DO not because this day I have grown saturnine
  Imagine that lost love, inseparable from my thought

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• On A Political Prisoner

  SHE that but little patience knew,
  From childhood on, had now so much

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• The Second Coming

  TURNING and turning in the widening gyre
  The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

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• Sixteen Dead Men

  O BUT we talked at large before
  The sixteen men were shot,

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• A Meditation in Time of War

  For one throb of the Artery,
  While on that old grey stone I sat

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• Solomon And The Witch

  And the moon is wilder every minute.
  O! Solomon! let us try again.'

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• Towards Break Of Day

  WAS it the double of my dream
  The woman that by me lay

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• The Leaders Of The Crowd

  THEY must to keep their certainty accuse
  All that are different of a base intent;

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• Michael Robartes And The Dancer

  He. Opinion is not worth a rush;
  In this altar-piece the knight,

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• The Rose Tree

  'O WORDS are lightly spoken,'
  Said Pearse to Connolly,

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• To Be Carved On A Stone At Thoor Ballylee

  I, the poet William Yeats,
  With old mill boards and sea-green slates,

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