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POLITICS by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Poet Analysis

First Line: HOW CAN I, THAT GIRL STANDING THERE
Last Line: BUT O THAT I WERE YOUNG AGAIN %AND HELD HER IN MY ARMS
Subject(s): LOVE; POLITICS;

Poem Sources:

INTRODUCTION TO POETRY. 3RD EDITION.
  SIMPSON, LOUIS (ED.)
  (1986)
 
LONG EMBRACE; TWENTIETH CENTURY IRISH LOVE POEMS.
  ORMSBY, FRANK (ED.)
  (1989)
 
THE OXFORD BOOK OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY ENGLISH VERSE.
  LARKIN, PHILIP (ED.)
  (1973)
 
THE MCGRAW-HILL BOOK OF POETRY.
  DIYANNI, ROBERT & ROMPF, KRAFT (EDS.)
  (1993)
 
CHIEF MODERN POETS OF BRITAIN AND AMERICA. 5TH EDITION. EDITED BY GERALD DEWITT SANDERS, JOHN HERBERT NELSON, AND M.L. ROSENTHAL.
  SANDERS, GERALD DEWITT (ED.)
  (1970)
 
ANTHOLOGY OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRITISH AND IRISH POETRY.
  TUMA, KEITH (ED.)
  (2001)
 
THE BLOODAXE BOOK OF 20TH CENTURY POETRY; FROM BRITAIN AND IRELAND.
  LONGLEY, EDNA (ED.)
  (2000)
 
GOOD POEMS.
  KEILLOR, GARRISON (ED.)
  (2002)
 
ANTHOLOGY OF MAGAZINE VERSE FOR 1938-1942, & YEARBOOK OF AMERICAN POETRY.
  PATER, ALAN F. (ED.)
  (1942)
 
COLLECTED POEMS OF W. B. YEATS.
  YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER
  (1956)
 



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