He Reproves The Curlew

Portrait of William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats 1865–1939

O curlew, cry no more in the air, Or only to the water in the West; Because your crying brings to my mind passion-dimmed eyes and long heavy hair That was shaken out over my breast: There is enough evil in the crying of wind.

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