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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A WOMAN OLD AND YOUNG: 3. A FIRST CONFESSION, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: I admit the briar
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
First Line: I admit the briar
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
I ADMIT the briar
Entangled in my hair
Did not injure me;
My blenching and trembling,
Nothing but dissembling,
Nothing but coquetry.
I long for truth, and yet
I cannot stay from that
My better self disowns,
For a man's attention
Brings such satisfaction
To the craving in my bones.
Brightness that I pull back
From the Zodiac,
Why those questioning eyes
That are fixed upon me?
What can they do but shun me
If empty night replies?
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