Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO A YOUNG GIRL, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS



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First Line: My dear, my dear, I know / more than another
Last Line: And glittered in her eyes.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.


My dear, my dear, I know
More than another
What makes your heart beat so;
Not even your own mother
Can know it as I know,
Who broke my heart for her
When the wild thought,
That she denies
And has forgot,
Set all her blood astir
And glittered in her eyes.





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