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About William Butler Yeats

Timeline (1865 - 1939)

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Original Language
English

Crazy Jane and God

Themes

Dawn

Light

Lover and Beloved

Night

Sky

Recommended Books

	Adventures in the Deeps of the Mind: Th Cuchulain Cycle of W. B. Yeats, by Barton R. Friedman
	Autobiography of W. B. Yeats, by W. B. Yeats
	Birth of Modernism: Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats, and the Occult, by Leon Surette
	Blackwell Critical Biographies #12: The Life of W. B. Yeats, by Terence Brown
	A Book of Irish Verse, by William Butler Yeats

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That lover of a night
Came when he would,
Went in the dawning light
Whether I would or no;
Men come, men go;
All things remain in God.

Banners choke the sky;
Men-at-arms tread;
Armoured horses neigh
Where the great battle was
In the narrow pass:
All things remain in God.

Before their eyes a house
That from childhood stood
Uninhabited, ruinous,
Suddenly lit up
From door to top:
All things remain in God.

I had wild Jack for a lover;
Though like a road
That men pass over
My body makes no moan
But sings on:
All things remain in God.

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