The Balloon of the Mind
Hands, do what you’re bid;
Bring the balloon of the mind
That bellies and drags in the wind
Into its narrow shed.
Poetry
Chapter List-
Poetry
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Song of the Faeries
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Love and Death
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The Seeker
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SceneI
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SceneII
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In a Drawing-Room
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Life
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The Two Titans
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OnMr.Nettleship’s Picture at the Royal Hibernian Academy
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Remembrance
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Love Song
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In Church
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A Summer Evening
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In the Firelight
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Where My Books Go
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The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner
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BookI
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BookI
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BookII
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BookIII
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The Danaan Quicken Tree
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Wisdom and Dreams
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Time and the Witch Vivien
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Kanva on Himself
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The Phantom Ship
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A Lover’s Quarrel Among the Fairies
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How Ferencz Renyi Kept Silent
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The Fairy Doctor
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The Priest and the Fairy
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The Fairy Pedant
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She Who Dwelt Among the Sycamores
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Chapter_34
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Street Dancers
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Quatrains and Aphorisms
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II
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III
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IV
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V
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VI
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VII
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When You Are Sad
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To the Rose Upon the Rood of Time
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To the Rose Upon the Rood of Time
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Fergus and the Druid
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Cuchulain’s Fight with the Sea
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The Rose of the World
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The Rose of Peace
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The Rose of Battle
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Chapter_52
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
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A Cradle Song
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The Pity of Love
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The Sorrow of Love
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When You Are Old
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The White Birds
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A Dream of Death
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The Countess Cathleen in Paradise
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Who Goes with Fergus
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The Man Who Dreamed of Faeryland
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The Dedication to a Book of Stories Selected from the Irish Novelists
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The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner
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The Ballad of Father Gilligan
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The Two Trees
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To Ireland in the Coming Times
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The Sad Shepherd
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The Sad Shepherd
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The Cloak, the Boat, and the Shoes
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Anashuya and Vijaya
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The Indian Upon God
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The Indian to His Love
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The Falling of the Leaves
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Ephemera
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The Madness of King Goll
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The Stolen Child
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To an Isle in the Water
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Down by the Salley Gardens
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The Meditation of the Old Fisherman
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The Ballad of Father O’Hart
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The Ballad of Moll Magee
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The Ballad of the Foxhunter
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To Some I Have Talked with by the Fire
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A Song of the Rosy Cross
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The Friends That Have It I Do Wrong
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Accursed Who Brings to Light of Day
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The Well and the Tree
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The Wind Among the Reeds
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The Hosting of the Sidhe
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The Everlasting Voices
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The Moods
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The Lover Tells of the Rose in His Heart
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The Host of the Air
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The Fisherman
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A Cradle Song
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Into the Twilight
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The Song of Wandering Aengus
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The Song of the Old Mother
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The Heart of the Woman
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The Lover Mourns for the Loss of Love
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He Mourns for the Change That Has Come Upon Him and His Beloved and Longs for the End of the World
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He Bids His Beloved Be at Peace
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He Reproves the Curlew
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He Remembers Forgotten Beauty
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A Poet to His Beloved
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He Gives His Beloved Certain Rhymes
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To His Heart, Bidding It Have No Fear
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The Cap and Bells
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The Valley of the Black Pig
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The Lover Asks Forgiveness Because of His Many Moods
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He Tells of a Valley Full of Lovers
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He Tells of the Perfect Beauty
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He Hears the Cry of the Sedge
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He Thinks of Those Who Have Spoken Evil of His Beloved
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The Blessed
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The Secret Rose
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Maid Quiet
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The Travail of Passion
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The Lover Pleads with His Friend for Old Friends
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A Lover Speaks to the Hearers of His Songs in Coming Days
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The Poet Pleads with the Elemental Powers
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He Wishes His Beloved Were Dead
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He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
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He Thinks of His Past Greatness When a Part of the Constellation of Heaven
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The Fiddler of Dooney
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The Old Age of Queen Maeve
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Chapter_128
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In the Seven Woods
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In the Seven Woods
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The Arrow
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The Folly of Being Comforted
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Old Memory
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Never Give All the Heart
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The Withering of the Boughs
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Adam’s Curse
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The Old Men Admirings Themselves in the Water
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Under the Moon
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The Ragged Wood
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O Do Not Love Too Long
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The Players Ask for a Blessing on the Psalteries and Themselves
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Introductory Poems from “The Shadowy Waters”
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The Shadowy Waters
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The Harp of Aengus
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FromThe Green Helmet and Other Poems
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His Dream
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A Woman Homer Sung
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The Consolation
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No Second Troy
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Reconciliation
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King and No King
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Peace
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Against Unworthy Praise
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The Fascination of What’s Difficult
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A Drinking Song
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The Coming of Wisdom with Time
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On Hearing That the Students of Our New University Have Joined the Agitation Against Immoral Literature
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To a Poet, Who Would Have Me Praise Certain Bad Poets, Imitators of His and Mine
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The Mask
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Upon a House Shaken by the Land Agitation
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At the Abbey Theatre
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These Are the Clouds
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At Galway Races
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A Friend’s Illness
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All Things Can Tempt Me
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The Young Man’s Song
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Introductory Rhymes
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Introductory Rhymes
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The Grey Rock
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The Two Kings
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To a Wealthy Man Who Promised a Second Subscription to the Dublin Municipal Gallery if It Were Proved the People Wanted Pictures
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September 1913
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To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Nothing
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Paudeen
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To a Shade
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When Helen Lived
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On Those That HatedThe Playboy of the Western World, 1907
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The Three Beggars
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The Three Hermits
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Beggar to Beggar Cried
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Running to Paradise
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The Hour Before Dawn
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The Realists
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I
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II
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The Mountain Tomb
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II
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A Memory of Youth
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Fallen Majesty
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Friends
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The Cold Heaven
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That the Night Come
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An Appointment
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I
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A Coat
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Closing Rhymes
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The Wild Swans at Coole
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Preface
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The Wild Swans at Coole
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In Memory of Major Robert Gregory
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3
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4
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5
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6
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7
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8
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9
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10
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11
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12
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An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
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Men Improve with the Years
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The Collar-Bone of a Hare
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Under the Round Tower
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Solomon to Sheba
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The Living Beauty
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A Song
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To a Young Beauty
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To a Young Girl
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The Scholars
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Tom O’Roughley
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The Sad Shepherd
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Lines Written in Dejection
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The Dawn
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On Woman
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The Fisherman
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The Hawk
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Memory
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Her Praise
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The People
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His Phoenix
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A Thought from Propertius
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Broken Dreams
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A Deep-Sworn Vow
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Presences
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The Balloon of the Mind
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To a Squirrel at Kyle-na-gno
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On Being Asked for a War Poem
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In Memory of Alfred Pollexfen
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Upon a Dying Lady
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III
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IV
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V
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VI
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VII
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Ego Dominus Tuus
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A Prayer on Going Into My House
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The Phases of the Moon
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The Cat and the Moon
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The Saint and the Hunchback
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Two Songs of a Fool
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II
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Another Song of a Fool
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The Double Vision of Michael Robartes
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II
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III
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Michael Robartes and the Dancer
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Preface to Michael Robartes and the Dancer
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Michael Robartes and the Dancer
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Solomon and the Witch
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An Image from a Past Life
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Under Saturn
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Easter, 1916
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Sixteen Dead Men
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The Rose Tree
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On a Political Prisoner
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The Leaders of the Crowd
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Towards Break of Day
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Demon and Beast
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The Second Coming
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A Prayer for My Daughter
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A Meditation in Time of War
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To Be Carved on a Stone at Ballylee
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The Tower
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Sailing to Byzantium
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III
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IV
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The Tower
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II
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III
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Meditations in Time of Civil War
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II
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III
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IV
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V
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VI
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VII
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Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen
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III
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IV
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V
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VI
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The Wheel
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Youth and Age
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The New Faces
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A Prayer for My Son
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Wisdom
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Leda and the Swan
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On a Picture of a Black Centaur
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Among School Children
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II
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III
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IV
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V
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VI
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VII
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VIII
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Chapter_323
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The Hero, the Girl and the Fool
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Owen Ahern and His Dancers
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I
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II
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A Man Young and Old
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First Love
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Human Dignity
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The Mermaid
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The Death of the Hare
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The Empty Cup
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His Memories
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The Friends of His Youth
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Summer and Spring
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The Secrets of the Old
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His Wildness
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The Three Monuments
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FromOedipus at Colonus
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II
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III
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IV
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The Gift of Harun-al-Rashid
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All Souls’ Night
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Endnotes