English Poetry. William Butler Yeats. A Deep-Sworn Vow. Уильям Батлер Йейтс.

William Butler Yeats (Уильям Батлер Йейтс)

A Deep-Sworn Vow

OTHERS because you did not keep
That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine;
Yet always when I look death in the face,
When I clamber to the heights of sleep,
Or when I grow excited with wine,
Suddenly I meet your face. 

William Butler Yeats’s other poems:

1. In Memory of Alfred Pollexfen
2. Under Ben Bulben
3. To Be Carved on a Stone at Ballylee
4. The Municipal Gallery Revisited
5. Maid Quiet

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