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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE FISH, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Although you hide in the ebb and flow Last Line: And blame you with many bitter words. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Variant Title(s): Breasal The Fisherman Subject(s): Fish & Fishing | |||
Although you hide in the ebb and flow Of the pale tide when the moon has set, The people of coming days will know About the casting out of my net, And how you have leaped times out of mind Over the little silver cords, And think that you were hard and unkind, And blame you with many bitter words. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...JOURNEY INTO THE EYE by DAVID LEHMAN THE GREAT BLACK HERON by DENISE LEVERTOV ISLA MUJERES by WILLIAM MATTHEWS SCHOOLS OF LITTLE FISH by MARVIN BELL TWO PICTURES OF A LEAF by MARVIN BELL OF FISH AND FISHERMEN by JOHN CIARDI SIXTEEN DEAD MEN by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS |
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