Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE SPUR, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS


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First Line: You think it is horrible that lust and rage
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Old Age; Lust; Anger


You think it horrible that lust and rage
Should dance attention upon my old age;
They were not such a plague when I was young;
What else have I to spur me into song?





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