Handout 2: To A Young Girl
William Butler Yeats (1865 — 1939), from The Wild Swans at Cooley (1919)
My dear, my dear, I knowMore than another
What makes your heart beat so;
Not even your own mother
Can know it as I know,
Who broke my heart for her
When the wild thought,
That she denies
And has forgot,
Set all her blood astir
And glittered in her eyes.
Last updated on Friday, January 23, 2009.
