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... Titles taken from works by William Shakespeare do not appear here see List of titles of works based on Shakespearean phrases.) Work Author Literary Reference ... translation Arms and the Man George Bernard Shaw The Aeneid, Virgil As I Lay Dying William Faulkner The Odyssey, Homer A Time to Kill John Grisham Ecclesiastes 33 ... Shaw Brave New World Aldous Huxley The Tempest, William Shakespeare and The Gods of the Copybook Headings, Rudyard Kipling Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee Dee Brown American Names, Stephen Vincent Benét ...
... The album Now In Time to Be features the works of Yeats performed by various artists ... Loreena McKennitt has set two Yeats poems to music "Stolen Child" "The Two Trees" ...
... Edward Butler (1 January 1823-9 June 1879), was born in Kilkenny, Ireland, son of Michael Butler, farmer, and his wife Mary, née Joyce ... Butler found that his ambitions to be trained as a lawyer were blocked in Ireland because of his Catholicism and he migrated to Sydney, arriving in May 1853, where ... In politics Butler was a strong supporter of the "liberal party", associated with Parkes and John Robertson, including Robertson's land policy and Charles Cowper's support for the withdrawal ...
... See also List of fictional butlers Mr ... Edmund Blackadder, butler to Prince George the Prince Regent, in the TV Series Blackadder the Third ... Alfred Pennyworth, Bruce Wayne's butler from Batman is a well known fictional butler ...
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“All perform their tragic play,
There struts Hamlet, there is Lear,
That’s Ophelia, that Cordelia;”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
““Nor should she be too rich, because the rich
Are driven by wealth as beggars by the itch,”
Beggar to beggar cried, being frenzy-struck,
“And cannot have a humorous happy speech.””
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“May God be praised for woman
That gives up all her mind,
A man may find in no man
A friendship of her kind
That covers all he has brought
As with her flesh and bone....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“What’s left to sigh for,
Strange night has come;
God’s love has hidden him
Out of all harm,
Pleasure has made him
Weak as a worm.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Many times man lives and dies
Betweeen his two eternities,
That of race and that of soul,
And ancient Ireland knew it all.
Whether man die in his bed
Or the rifle knocks him dead,”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)