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Fourth Act
2023-12-06Lord Goring (pulls out his watch, inspects it, and rings the bell) It is a great nuisance. I can't find anyone in this house to talk to. And I am ...
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Coole Park, 1929
2023-12-06I meditate upon a swallow‘s flight, Upon an aged woman and her house, A sycamore and lime tree lost in night Although that western cloud is lumi...
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Coole and Ballylee, 1931
2023-12-06Under my window-ledge the waters race, Otters below and moor-hens on the top, Run for a mile undimmed in Heaven‘s face Then darkening through &l...
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For Anne Gregory
2023-12-06‘Never shall a young man, Thrown into despair By those great honey-coloured Ramparts at your ear, Love you for yourself alone And not your yello...
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IN CABIN'D SHIPS AT SEA
2023-12-06IN cabin'd ships at sea, The boundless blue on every side expanding, With whistling winds and music of the waves, the large imperious waves, Or so...
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Swift'S Epitaph
2023-12-06Swift has sailed into his rest; Savage indignation there Cannot lacerate his breast. Imitate him if you dare, World-besotted traveller; he Served huma...
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TO FOREIGN LANDS
2023-12-06I HEARD that you ask'd for something to prove this puzzle the New World, And to define America, her athletic Democracy, Therefore I send you my po...
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At Algeciras--a Meditation upon Death
2023-12-06The heron-billed pale cattle-birds That feed on some foul parasite Of the Moroccan flocks and herds Cross the narrow Straits to light In the rich midn...
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The Choice
2023-12-06The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life, or of the work, And if it take the second must refuse A heavenly mansion, raging in t...
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Complete Version
2023-12-06In Memoriam C.T.W. Sometime Trooper of The Royal Horse Guards. Obiit H.M. Prison, Reading, Berkshire, July 7th, 1896 I. He did not wear his scarlet co...