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The Rose of Battle

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Poem by W. B. Yeats

The Rose of Battle is a poem by William Butler Yeats, from his second poetry collection: The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics (1892).

Popular culture

The title of Libba Bray's novel The Sweet Far Thing comes from a line in The Rose of Battle.

External links

The collected public domain poetry of Yeats as an eBook at Standard Ebooks
The Rose of Battle at kalliope.org

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Poetry

Volumes

The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems (1889)
The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics (1892)
In the Seven Woods (1903)
Responsibilities and Other Poems (1916)
The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)
Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921)
The Tower (1928)
The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933)

Poems

Plays

Other works

The Works of William Blake: Poetic, Symbolic and Critical (1893; co-author)
A Vision (1925)
The Bounty of Sweden (1925)
"The Curse of the Fires and of the Shadows"
Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1892–1935 (editor)

People

Georgie Hyde-Lees (wife)
Anne Yeats (daughter)
Michael Yeats (son)
John Butler Yeats (father)
Susan Pollexfen (mother)
Jack Butler Yeats (brother)
Elizabeth Yeats (sister)
Lily Yeats (sister)
Maud Gonne (lover)

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