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Poetry Quotes New Flashcards

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The Stolen Child:

In pools among…

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In pools among rushes, that scarce could bathe a star

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The Stolen Child:

Away with us he’s going…

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Away with us he’s going, the solemn eyed he’ll hear no more lowness of the calves on the warm hillside

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September 1913:

Yet they were of a different kind…

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Yet they were of a different kind the names that stilled your childish play

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September 1913:

Was it for this…

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Was it for this the wild geese spread the grey wing upon every tide

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September 1913:

They weighed…

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Thy weighed so lightly what they gave

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The Cold Heaven:

And there upon…

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And there upon imagination and heart were driven

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The Cold Heaven:

Vanished, and left but…

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Vanished and left but memories that should be out of season

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The Cold Heaven:

Riddled with light…

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Riddled with light, ah! Where the ghost begins to quicken

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The Wild Swans At Coole:

The trees are in their…

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The trees are in their Autumn beauty, the woodland paths are dry

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The Wild Swans At Coole:

All changed…

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All changed since I hearing at twilight the first time on this shore

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The Wild Swans At Coole:

Passion or conquest…

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Passion or conquest wander where they will, attend upon them still

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The Stolen Child:

Where the wave…

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Where the wave of moonlight glosses the dim gray sands with light

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An Irish Airman Foresees His Death:

No likely end…

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No likely end could bring them loss

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An Irish Airman Foresees His Death:

A lonely impulse…

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A lonely impulse of delight drove this tumult to the clouds

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An Irish Airman Foresees His Death:

A waste of breath…

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A waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death

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The Fisherman:

All day I looked…

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All day I looked in the face what I had hoped it would be

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The Fisherman:

Suddenly I began, in scorn…

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Suddenly I began in scorn of this audience imagining a man

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The Fisherman:

A man who does not…

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A man who does not exist, a man who is but a dream

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Broken Dreams:

Heaven has put away…

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Heaven has put away her stroke of doom, so great her portion in that peace you make

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Broken Dreams:

Your beauty…

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Your beauty can but leave among us vague memories, nothing but memories

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Broken Dreams:

Where those what have…

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Where those what have obeyed the holy law paddle and are perfect

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The Cat And The Moon:

The pure cold light…

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The pure cold light in the sky troubled his animal blood

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The Cat And The Moon:

Maybe the moon may…

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Maybe the moon may learn, tired of that courtly fashion, a new dance turn

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The Cat And The Moon:

Alone, important…

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Alone, important and wise and lifts to the changing moon

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Easter 1916:

And I thought before I had done…

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And I thought before I had done, of a mocking tale or gibe to please a companion

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Easter 1916:

He too has been changed…

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He too has been changed in his turn, transformed utterly: a terrible beauty is born

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Easter 1916:

We know their dream…

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We know their dream: enough to know what they dreamed and are dead

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The Second Coming:

The blood dimmed…

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The blood dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocent is drowned

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The Second Coming:

When a vast image…

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When a vast image out of spiritus Mundi troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand

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The Second Coming:

The darkness…

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The darkness drops again but now I know that twenty centuries of stony sleep

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Sailing to Byzantium:

These dying generations…

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These dying generations at their song the salmon falls, the mackerel crowded seas fish, flesh or fowl

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Sailing to Byzantium:

Soul clap it’s hands…

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Soul clap it’s hand and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress

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Sailing to Byzantium:

But such a form…

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But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make of hammered gold and gold enamelling

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Leda and the swan:

Above the staggering girl…

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Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed by the dark webs

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Leda and the swan:

But feel…

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But feel the strange heart beating where it lies

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Leda and the swan:

A shudder…

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A shudder in the loins engenders there the broken wall, the burning roof and tower

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Among The School Children:

The children’s eyes…

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The children’s eyes, in momentary wonder stare upon a sixth year old smiling public man

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Among The School Children:

And thereupon my heart…

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And there upon my heart is driven wild: she stands before me as a living child

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Among The School Children:

O body swayed to music…

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I body swayed to music, o brightening glance, how can we know the dancer from the dance

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In Memory:

Conspiring among the ignorant…

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Conspiring among the ignorant, I know not what the younger dreams

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In Memory:

Two girls in silk…

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Two girls in silk kimonos, both beautiful, one a gazelle

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In Memory:

The innocent and…

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The innocent and the beautiful, have no enemy but time

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Man And The Echo:

Did that play…

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Did that play of mind send out certain men the English shot?

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Man And The Echo:

Nor can there be…

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Nor can there be work so great as that which clears men’s “dirty slate”

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Man And The Echo:

But hush…

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But hush for I have lost the theme it’s joy or night-seem but a dream

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