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The Secret Rose

W. B. Yeats

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. . .r moment a dozen peasants armed with short spears had come up with the knight, and stood a little apart from him, their blue caps in their hands. Where do you go with the spears?' he asked; and one who seemed the leader answered: 'A troop of wood-thieves came down from the hills a while ago and carried off the pigs belonging to an old man who lives by Glen Car Lough, and we turned out to go after them. Now that we know they are four times more than we are, we follow to find the way they have taken; and will presently tell our story to De Courcey, and if he will not help us, to Fitzgerald; for De Courcey and Fitzgerald have lately made a peace, and we do not know to whom we belong.'

'But by that time,' said the knight, 'the pigs will have been eaten.'

'A dozen men cannot do more, and it was not reasonable that the whole valley should turn out and risk their lives for two, or for two dozen pigs.'

'Can you tell me,' said the k. . . Read More

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Вільям Батлер Єйтс отримав Нобелівську премію з літератури 1923 р.
Таємна троянда
є тією збіркою, яка дозволить зрозуміти, чому він здобув цю нагороду.

Написана 1897 р., тобто через чотири роки після Кельтських сутінків. Але останні презентуються як кельтські історії чи оповістки, які дозволяють

Мушу зізнатися, що творчість Єйтса завжди була дещо туманною. Всі про нього говорили, як про визначного письменника, всі захоплювалися його талантом, але мені якось не траплялося нічого з його доробку. Хіба кілька поезій, які я, як в принципі не дуже великий любитель поезії не дуже то й зрозумів. То

Глибокі оповіді буття мешканців Смарагдового острова, смертних та несмертних, від одного з його кращих майстрів слова.

Короткі історії про чарівну Ірландію, яка залишилася в далекому майбутньому.

THE SECRET ROSE (often paired with Yeats THE CELTIC TWILIGHT or STORIES OF RED HANRAHAN) is the Irish poet expanding on the approach used in CELTIC TWILIGHT of telling old Irish folktales. But whereas in CT this was done in a homey, piecemeal and "oral tradition" manner, here he tells each tale as a

The poems are absolutely beautiful, the selection is excellent, and Jeffares' notes are good too. To top it off, the book itself is beautifully designed.

Buy it for your beloved. Don't let all that sweet, desperate, unrequited love for Maud Gonne go to waste!

A collection of short stories ranging from the obscure to hauntingly mystical. Some exquisite writing as reflected in the below snippets which moved me deeply:

"for his heart was full of that ungovernable pity which makes the fading heart of the lover a shadow of the divine heart. "

"'Why,' said the o

About:
The Love Poems by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats is a collection of his poems about love from the year 1888 to 1938.

Did I Like It?:
Yes, I did like this poetry collection. It was a pleasure to read and all of the poems were quite lovely. The poems in this collection were in chronological

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