William Butler Yeats
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- p.89
- I had this thought awhile ago,
'My darling cannot understand
What I have done, or what would do
In this blind bitter land.' - And I grew weary of the sun
Until my thoughts cleared up again,
Remembering that the best I have done
Was done to make it plain; - That every year I have cried, 'At length
My darling understands it all,
Because I have come into my strength,
And words obey my call.' - p.90That had she done so who can say
What would have shaken from the sieve?
I might have thrown poor words away
And been content to live.
The Consolation
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Title (uniform): The Consolation
Author: William Butler Yeats
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Date: 2012
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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
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Yeats, William Butler (1916). ‘The Consolation’. In: Responsibilities and other Poems. Ed. by William Butler Yeats. New York: The Macmillan Company, pp. 89–90.
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Creation: By William Butler Yeats (1865–1939). before 1916
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- 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)
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