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TO A YOUNG GIRL by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Poet Analysis

First Line: MY DEAR, MY DEAR, I KNOW / MORE THAN ANOTHER
Last Line: AND GLITTERED IN HER EYES.
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.



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