William Butler Yeats
Ireland
13 Jun 1865 // 28 Jan 1939
Poet
13 Jun 1865 // 28 Jan 1939
Poet
I gave what other women gave
That stepped out of their clothes
But when this soul, its body off
Naked to naked goes,
He it has found shall find therein
What none other knows.
That stepped out of their clothes
But when this soul, its body off
Naked to naked goes,
He it has found shall find therein
What none other knows.
The Winding Stair and Other Poems, 1933. A Woman Young and Old, A Last Confession
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