Arts & Sciences
The Attack on 'The Playboy of the Western World,' 1907
From The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1912)
Arts & Sciences
Once, when midnight smote the air,
Eunuchs ran through Hell and met
Round about Hell's gate, to stare
At great Juan riding by,
And like these to rail and sweat,
Maddened by that sinewy thigh.
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Codex Note
Printed in The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1912) as 'The Attack on the "Play Boy"'.
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MLA
Yeats, W. B. “The Attack on 'The Playboy of the Western World,' 1907.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/yeats/94/.
Chicago
Yeats, W. B. “The Attack on 'The Playboy of the Western World,' 1907.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/yeats/94/.
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