Michael Robartes and the Dancer
By W. B. Yeats
W. B. Yeats's 1921 collection Michael Robartes and the Dancer gathers poems written in the years of the Easter Rising, the First World War and the Irish War of Independence. Easter, 1916 reflects on the Dublin rising and the leaders executed after it, and The Second Coming offers a dark vision of a world falling apart. A Prayer for My Daughter, written after the birth of his first child, considers what he hopes her life will be.
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