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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO A FRIEND WHOSE WORK HAS COME TO NOTHING, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Recitation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now all the truth is out Last Line: That is most difficult. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Failure | |||
NOW all the truth is out, Be secret and take defeat From any brazen throat, For how can you compete, Being honour bred, with one Who, were it proved he lies, Were neither shamed in his own Nor in his neighbours' eyes? Bred to a harder thing Than Triumph, turn away And like a laughing string Whereon mad fingers play Amid a place of stone, Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DEEP SORRINESS ATONEMENT SONG by GLYN MAXWELL FAILURES IN INFINITIVES by BERNADETTE MAYER ELLIPTICAL by HARRYETTE MULLEN I GO BACK TO MAY 1937 by SHARON OLDS MATER IN EXTREMIS by JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER ONE: 10 by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS SIXTEEN DEAD MEN by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS |
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