Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A DEEP-SWORN VOW, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS


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First Line: Others because you did not keep
Last Line: Suddenly I meet your face.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Promises


Others because you did not keep
That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine;
Yet always when I look death in the face,
When I clamber to the heights of sleep,
Or when I grow excited with wine,
Suddenly I meet your face.





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