greykit.poetry · #rebellion

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1916 [w-b-yeats] Easter, 1916
Michael Robartes and the Dancer

Yeats's elegy for the leaders of the Easter Rising — men he had passed with a nod, transformed utterly by their sacrifice into a terrible beauty that is born.

#elegy #history #Ireland #rebellion #1910s
1633 [george-herbert] The Collar
The Temple

A tantrum in verse — the speaker strikes the board, swears he will abroad, and rages at his rope of sands in lines that break their own metre — until one word, calling Childe, ends it: And I reply’d, My Lord.

#lyric #religion #rebellion #1630s

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