English Poetry. William Butler Yeats. Oil and Blood. Уильям Батлер Йейтс.

William Butler Yeats (Уильям Батлер Йейтс)

Oil and Blood

IN tombs of gold and lapis lazuli
Bodies of holy men and women exude
Miraculous oil, odour of violet.
But under heavy loads of trampled clay
Lie bodies of the vampires full of blood;
Their shrouds are bloody and their lips are wet. 

William Butler Yeats’s other poems:

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

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