"Man has created death."
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"O heart, be at peace, because Nor knave nor dolt can break What's not for their applause, Being for a woman's sake."
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"I thought of rhyme alone, For rhyme can beat a measure out of trouble And make the daylight sweet once more."
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"Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day. Love's pleasure drives his love away, The painter's brush consumes his dreams."
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"Laughter not time destroyed my voice And put that crack in it, And when the moon's pot-bellied I get a laughing fit."
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"I say that Roger Casement Did what he had to do, He died upon the gallows But that is nothing new."
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"O would, beloved, that you lay Under the dock-leaves in the ground, While lights were paling one by one."
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"That beautiful mild woman for whose sake There's many a one shall find out all heartache On finding that her voice is sweet and low Replied, 'To be born a woman is to know- Although they do not talk of it at school - That we must labor to be beautiful."
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"How can the arts overcome the slow dying of men's hearts that we call progress ?"
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"I weave the shoes of Sorrow: Soundless shall be the footfall light In all men's ears of Sorrow, Sudden and light."
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"Why should I blame her that she filled my days With misery, or that she would of late Have taught to ignorant men most violent ways, Or hurled the little streets upon the great, Had they but courage equal to desire? What could have made her peaceful with a mind That nobleness made simple as a fire, With beauty like a tightened bow, a kind That is not natural in an age like this Being high and solitary and most stern? Why, what could she have done, being what she is? Was there another Troy for her to burn?"
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"Education is not filling"
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"When we are high and airy hundreds say That if we hold that flight they'll leave the place, While those same hundreds mock another day Because we have made our art of common things."
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"I--love's skein upon the ground, My body in the tomb-- Shall leap into the light lost In my mother's womb."
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"A mouth that has no moisture and no breath Breathless mouths may summon; I hail the superhuman; I call it death-in-life and life-in-death."
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"I know, although when looks meet I tremble to the bone, The more I leave the door unlatched The sooner love is gone."
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"There is no release In a bodkin or disease, Nor can there be a work so great As that which cleans man's dirty slate."
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"The Danaan children laugh, in cradles of wrought gold, And clap their hands together, and half close their eyes, For they will ride the North when the ger-eagle flies, With heavy whitening wings, and a heart fallen cold."
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"I hear it in the deep heart's core."
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"Before me floats an image, man or shade, / Shade more than man, more image than a shade."
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