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About William Butler Yeats

Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923.

More poems by William Butler Yeats

• Crossing the Bar — William Butler Yeats (1889)
• Into The Twilight — William Butler Yeats (1908)
• Ode to the Cuckoo — William Butler Yeats (1873)
• He Mourns For The Change That Has Come Upon Him And His Beloved And Longs For The End Of The World — William Butler Yeats (1908)
• A Weary Soul — William Butler Yeats (1872)
• Noise of Many Waters — William Butler Yeats (1871)
• A Cradle Song — William Butler Yeats (1908)
• Letters — William Butler Yeats (1899)

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More Life & Death poems

• Because I could not stop for Death — Emily Dickinson (1863)
• Fire and Ice — Robert Frost (1923)
• Hamlet's Soliloquy: To be or not to be — William Shakespeare
• Crabbed Age and Youth — William Shakespeare (1599)
• Holy Sonnet X: Death Be Not Proud — John Donne
• A Sea Dirge — William Shakespeare
• Fidele — William Shakespeare
• I felt a Funeral, in my Brain — Emily Dickinson (1861)

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