William Butler Yeats
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- p.85
- I SWAYED upon the gaudy stern
The butt end of a steering oar,
And everywhere that I could turn
Men ran upon the shore. - And though I would have hushed the crowd
There was no mother's son but said,
'What is the figure in a shroud
Upon a gaudy bed?' - And fishes bubbling to the brim
Cried out upon that thing beneath,
—It had such dignity of limb—
By the sweet name of Death. - Though I'd my finger on my lip,
What could I but take up the song? p.86
And fish and crowd and gaudy ship
Cried out the whole night long, - Crying amid the glittering sea,
Naming it with ecstatic breath,
Because it had such dignity
By the sweet name of Death.
His Dream
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Title (uniform): His Dream
Author: William Butler Yeats
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Extent: 527 words
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Date: 2012
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CELT document ID: E910001-033
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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). ‘His Dream’. In: Responsibilities and other Poems. Ed. by William Butler Yeats. New York: The Macmillan Company, pp. 85–86.
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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; 20c
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- 2012-02-13: 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)