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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 8. WHENCE HAD THEY COME, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eternity is passion, girl or boy Last Line: When world-transforming charlemagne was conceived? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Love - Erotic | |||
Eternity is passion, girl or boy Cry at the onset of their sexual joy For ever and for ever'; then awake Ignorant what Dramatis personae spake; A passion-driven exultant man sings out Sentences that he has never thought; The Flagellant lashes those submissive loins Ignorant what that dramatist enjoins, What master made the lash. Whence had they come, The hand and lash that beat down frigid Rome? What sacred drama through her body heaved When world-transforming Charlemagne was conceived? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HUNGERFIELD by ROBINSON JEFFERS ULYSSES: MOLLY BLOOM'S CLOSING SOLILOQUY by JAMES JOYCE THE EROTIC PHILOSOPHERS by KIZER. CAROLYN SLEEPING WITH WOMEN by KENNETH KOCH ROGER CASEMENT (AFTER READING 'THE FORGED CASEMENT DIARIES') by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS |
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