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Song Quotes by William Butler Yeats
- Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant and yet again descant Upon…
- Land of Heart's Desire Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.
- You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention upon my old age; They were not such a plague when I was young;…
- The unpurged images of day recede; The Emperor's drunken soldiery are abed; Night resonance recedes, night-walkers' song After great cathedral gong.
- Beloved, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there; From joy the holy branches start, And all the trembling flowers they bear.…
- That is no country for old men. The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees - Those dying generations-at their song, The salmon-falls,…
- I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat But the fools caught it, Wore it in…
- You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attendance upon my old age; They were not such a plague when I was young;…
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