The Spur

William Butler Yeats

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;
What else have I to spur me into song?

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• William Butler Yeats : The Statesman's Holiday
• William Butler Yeats : The Statues
• William Butler Yeats : The Stolen Child
• William Butler Yeats : The Three Beggars
• William Butler Yeats : The Three Bushes
• William Butler Yeats : The Three Hermits
• William Butler Yeats : The Three Monuments
• William Butler Yeats : The Tower
• William Butler Yeats : The Travail Of Passion
• William Butler Yeats : The Two Kings

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• William Butler Yeats : The Spirit Medium
• William Butler Yeats : The Sorrow Of Love
• William Butler Yeats : The Song Of Wandering Aengus
• William Butler Yeats : The Song Of The Old Mother
• William Butler Yeats : The Song Of The Happy Shepherd
• William Butler Yeats : The Shadowy Waters: The Shadowy Waters
• William Butler Yeats : The Shadowy Waters: The Harp Of Aengus
• William Butler Yeats : The Shadowy Waters: Introductory Lines
• William Butler Yeats : The Shadowy Waters
• William Butler Yeats : The Seven Sages