Love
Memory
From The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)
LoveNature
One had a lovely face,
And two or three had charm,
But charm and face were in vain
Because the mountain grass
Cannot but keep the form
Where the mountain hare has lain.
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Codex Note
Of the women he has known, 'one had a lovely face, / And two or three had charm', but both were in vain, because the mountain grass keeps the form where the hare has lain.
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MLA
Yeats, W. B. “Memory.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/yeats/49/.
Chicago
Yeats, W. B. “Memory.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/yeats/49/.
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