William Butler Yeats
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- p.47
- 'Time to put off the world and go somewhere
And find my health again in the sea air,'
Beggar to beggar cried, being frenzystruck,
'And make my soul before my pate is bare.' - 'And get a comfortable wife and house
To rid me of the devil in my shoes,'
Beggar to beggar cried, being frenzystruck,
'And the worse devil that is between my thighs.' - 'And though I'd marry with a comely lass, p.48
She need not be too comely—let it pass,'
Beggar to beggar cried, being frenzystruck,
'But there's a devil in a looking-glass.' - 'Nor should she be too rich, because the rich
Are driven by wealth as beggars by the itch,'
Beggar to beggar cried, being frenzystruck,
'And cannot have a humorous happy speech.' - 'And there I'll grow respected at my ease,
And hear amid the garden's nightly peace'
Beggar to beggar cried, being frenzystruck,
'The wind-blown clamor of the barnacle-geese.'
Beggar to Beggar Cried
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Title (uniform): Beggar to Beggar Cried
Author: William Butler Yeats
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Funded by: School of History, University College, Cork
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Extent: 560 words
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Date: 2012
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CELT document ID: E910001-013
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Bibliography
- A bibliography is available online at the official web site of the Nobel Prize. See: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1923/yeats-bibl.html
The edition used in the digital edition
Yeats, William Butler (1916). ‘Beggar to Beggar Cried’. In: Responsibilities and other Poems. Ed. by William Butler Yeats. New York: The Macmillan Company, pp. 47–48.
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address = {New York},
date = {1916},
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Creation: By William Butler Yeats (1865–1939). before 1916
Language usage
- The poem is in English. (en)
Keywords: literary; poetry; W. B. Yeats; 19c; 20c
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- 2012-02-10: File proofed (2), additions to encoding made; header completed; file parsed; SGML and HTML files created. (ed. Beatrix Färber)
- 2012-02-01: Header created. (ed. Juliette Maffet)
- 2012-01-23: First proofing. (ed. Juliette Maffet)
- 2012-01-18: Text captured by scanning. (file capture Juliette Maffet)