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All Things can tempt me

Author: William Butler Yeats

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Electronic edition compiled and proof-read by Beatrix Färber, Juliette Maffet

Funded by School of History, University College, Cork

1. First draft.

Extent of text: 492 words

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Distributed by CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland.
Text ID Number: E910001-052

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Sources

Bibliography
1. A bibliography is available online at the official web site of the Nobel Prize. See: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1923/yeats-bibl.html

The edition used in the digital edition
1. William Butler Yeats All Things can tempt me in , Ed. William Butler Yeats Responsibilities and other Poems. The Macmillan Company, New York, (1916) page 114

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Profile Description

Created: By William Butler Yeats (1865–1939). Date range: before 1916.

Use of language

Language: [EN] The poem is in English.

Revision History

• (2012-02-17)

  Beatrix Färber (ed.)

• File proofed (2), additions to encoding made; header completed; file parsed; SGML and HTML files created.
• (2012-02-01)

  Juliette Maffet (ed.)

• Header created.
• (2012-01-23)

  Juliette Maffet (ed.)

• First proofing.
• (2012-01-18)

  Juliette Maffet (file capture)

• Text captured by scanning.

Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: E910001-052

All Things can tempt me: Author: William Butler Yeats

p.114

1. All things can tempt me from this craft of verse:
   One time it was a woman's face, or worse—
   The seeming needs of my fool-driven land;
   Now nothing but comes readier to the hand
   Than this accustomed toil. When I was young,
   I had not given a penny for a song
   Did not the poet sing it with such airs
   That one believed he had a sword upstairs;
   Yet would be now, could I but have my wish,
   Colder and dumber and deafer than a fish.