A Nativity
William Butler Yeats
WHAT woman hugs her infant there? Another star has shot an ear. What made the drapery glisten so? Not a man but Delacroix. What made the ceiling waterproof? Landor's tarpaulin on the roof What brushes fly and moth aside? Irving and his plume of pride. What hurries out the knaye and dolt? Talma and his thunderbolt. Why is the woman terror-struck? Can there be mercy in that look?
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- William Butler Yeats : A Prayer For My Son
- William Butler Yeats : A Prayer For Old Age
- William Butler Yeats : A Prayer On Going Into My House
- William Butler Yeats : A Song
- William Butler Yeats : A Song From The Player Queen
- William Butler Yeats : A Statesman's Holiday
- William Butler Yeats : A Stick Of Incense
- William Butler Yeats : A Thought From Propertius
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- William Butler Yeats : A Model For The Laureate
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- William Butler Yeats : A Man Young And Old: Viii. Summer And Spring
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- William Butler Yeats : A Man Young And Old: Vi. His Memories
- William Butler Yeats : A Man Young And Old: V. The Empty Cup
- William Butler Yeats : A Man Young And Old: Ix. The Secrets Of The Old
