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Quotation by William Butler Yeats
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Collected Letters, vol. 1, ed. John Kelly (1986)"A Bronze Head"A Coat Responsibilities (1914)A Coat"A Cradle Song"Related Subjects
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A sweetheart from another life floats there
As though she had been forced to linger
From vague distress
Or arrogant loveliness,
Merely to loosen out a tress
Among the starry eddies of her hair....
As though she had been forced to linger
From vague distress
Or arrogant loveliness,
Merely to loosen out a tress
Among the starry eddies of her hair....
William Butler Yeats (1865–1939), Irish poet, playwright. "An Image from a Past Life."
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