Love
To a Young Girl
From The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)
Love
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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MLA
Yeats, W. B. “To a Young Girl.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/yeats/153/.
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Yeats, W. B. “To a Young Girl.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/yeats/153/.
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