William Butler Yeats
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- p.106
- How should the world be luckier if this house,
Where passion and precision have been one
Time out of mind, became too ruinous
To breed the lidless eye that loves the sun?
And the sweet laughing eagle thoughts that grow
Where wings have memory of wings, and all
That comes of the best knit to the best? Although
Mean roof-trees were the sturdier for its fall,
How should their luck run high enough to reach p.107
The gifts that govern men, and after these
To gradual Time's last gift, a written speech
Wrought of high laughter, loveliness and ease?
Upon a House shaken by the Land Agitation
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Title (uniform): Upon a House shaken by the Land Agitation
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). ‘Upon a House shaken by the Land Agitation’. In: Responsibilities and other Poems. Ed. by William Butler Yeats. New York: The Macmillan Company, pp. 106–107.
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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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- 2012-02-15: 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)