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


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First Line: A doll in the doll-maker's house
Last Line: It was an accident.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Dolls; Toys


A doll in the doll-maker's house
Looks at the cradle and bawls:
'That is an insult to us.'
But the oldest of all the dolls,
Who had seen, being kept for show,
Generations of his sort,
Out-screams the whole shelf: 'Although
There's not a man can report
Evil of this place,
The man and the woman bring
Hither, to our disgrace,
A noisy and filthy thing.'
Hearing him groan and stretch
The doll-maker's wife is aware
Her husband has heard the wretch,
And crouched by the arm of his chair,
She murmurs into his ear,
Head upon shoulder leant:
'My dear, my dear, O dear,
It was an accident.'





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