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A Crazed Girl | Poems Rethabile Likes

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A Crazed Girl by W. B. Yeats | Poems Rethabile Likes A Crazed Girl by W. B. Yeats That crazed girl improvising her music. Her poetry, dancing upon the shore, Her soul in division from itself Climbing, falling she knew not where, Hiding amid the cargo of a steamship, Her knee-cap broken, that girl I declare A beautiful lofty thing, or a thing Heroically lost, heroically found. No matter what disaster occurred She stood in desperate music wound, Wound, wound, and she made in her triumph Where the bales and the baskets lay No common intelligible sound But sang, 'O sea-starved, hun...

The Wild Swans at Coole by W. B. Yeats | Poems Rethabile Likes

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The Wild Swans of Coole by W. B. Yeats | Poems Rethabile Likes The Wild Swans at Coole by W. B. Yeats The trees are in their autumn beauty, The woodland paths are dry, Under the October twilight the water Mirrors a still sky; Upon the brimming water among the stones Are nine and fifty swans. The nineteenth Autumn has come upon me Since I first made my count; I saw, before I had well finished, All suddenly mount And scatter wheeling in great broken rings Upon their clamorous wings. I have looked upon those brilliant creatures, And now my heart is sore. All's changed s...