Love
Aedh Laments the Loss of Love
From The Wind Among the Reeds (1899)
Love
Pale brows, still hands and dim hair,
I had a beautiful friend
And dreamed that the old despair
Would end in love in the end:
She looked in my heart one day
And saw your image was there;
She has gone weeping away.
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MLA
Yeats, W. B. “Aedh Laments the Loss of Love.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/yeats/187/.
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Yeats, W. B. “Aedh Laments the Loss of Love.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/yeats/187/.
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