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SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 3. RIBB IN ECSTASY by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Poet Analysis

First Line: WHAT MATTER THAT YOU UNDERSTOOD NO WORD!
Last Line: and must the common round of day resume
Subject(s): HAPPINESS; TRANSIENCE; SEX; JOY; DELIGHT; IMPERMANENCE;

What matter that you understood no word!
Doubtless I spoke or sang what I had heard
In broken sentences. My soul had found
All happiness in its own cause or ground.
Godhead on Godhead in sexual spasm begot
Godhead. Some shadow fell. My soul forgot
Those amorous cries that out of quiet come
And must the common round of day resume.



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