Anna Livia Plurabelle
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Irish poems
Irish poems to know and love
Leda and the swan
A sudden blow: the great wings beating still
Leda and the Swan
Sailing to Byzantium
That is no country for old men
Yeats's sailing to Byzantium
The Second Coming
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
Yeats's bleak prophecy after the First World War
First published 1917
The Wild Swans at Coole
The trees are in their autumn beauty
A melancholy but beautiful reflection on change and the passage of time
From "Pomes, Pennyeach"
Tilly
He travels after a winter sun
Joyce's feelings on the death of his mother