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


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First Line: Hope that you may understand!
Last Line: With the dragons?
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Reality


HOPE that you may understand!
What can books of men that wive
In a dragon-guarded land,
Paintings of the dolphin-drawn
Sea-nymphs in their pearly wagons
Do, but awake a hope to live
That had gone
With the dragons?





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