William Butler Yeats

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    There’s not a woman turns her face
    Upon a broken tree,
    And yet the beauties that I loved
    Are in my memory....
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    I wander on, and wave my hands,
    And sing, and shake my heavy locks.
    The grey wolf knows me; by one ear
    I lead along the woodland deer;
    The hares run by me growing bold.
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    Do you not hear me calling, white deer with no horns?
    I have been changed to a hound with one red ear;
    I have been in the Path of Stones and the Wood of Thorns....
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    A crazy man that found a cup,
    When all but dead of thirst,
    Hardly dared to wet his mouth
    Imagining, moon-accursed,
    That another mouthful
    And his beating heart would burst.
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)