Arts & Sciences
The Realists
From Responsibilities (1914)
Arts & Sciences
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 waggons
Do, but awake a hope to live
That had gone
With the dragons?
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MLA
Yeats, W. B. “The Realists.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/yeats/114/.
Chicago
Yeats, W. B. “The Realists.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/yeats/114/.
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