Poem by William Butler Yeats

To a Young Girl

MY dear, my dear, I know
More than another
What makes your heart beat so;
Not even your own mother
Can know it as I know,
Who broke my heart for her
When the wild thought,
That she denies
And has forgot,
Set all her blood astir
And glittered in her eyes. 

1. Two Songs from a Play
2. To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Nothing
3. The Attack on 'The Playboy of the Western World', 1907
4. A Prayer for My Son
5. Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen

Dora Greenwell To a Young Girl ("Twelve years before thee through life I must run") February 13th

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