Love
Hanrahan Reproves the Curlew
From The Wind Among the Reeds (1899)
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O, curlew, cry no more in the air,
Or only to the waters in the West;
Because your crying brings to my mind
Passion-dimmed eyes and long heavy hair
That was shaken out over my breast:
There is enough evil in the crying of wind.
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Codex Note
A six-line lyric asking the curlew to cry no more, for there is enough evil in the crying of the wind.
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MLA
Yeats, W. B. “Hanrahan Reproves the Curlew.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/yeats/17/.
Chicago
Yeats, W. B. “Hanrahan Reproves the Curlew.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/yeats/17/.
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