Love
Maid Quiet
From The Collected Works, vol. 1 (1908)
Love
Where has Maid Quiet gone to,
Nodding her russet hood?
The winds that awakened the stars
Are blowing through my blood.
O how could I be so calm
When she rose up to depart?
Now words that called up the lightning
Are hurtling through my heart.
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Yeats, W. B. “Maid Quiet.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/yeats/211/.
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Yeats, W. B. “Maid Quiet.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/yeats/211/.
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