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       William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

                    Leda and the Swan

First Line:     A SUDDEN blow: the great wings beating still

This Poem was first published in 1924. As such it is protected by copyright and cannot be displayed without permission of the copyright holder.

It can be found in:

  • Yeats, William Butler. The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats. Definitive Edition, with the Author's Final Revisions. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1956.
  • Harmon, William, ed. The Classic Hundred Poems (Second Edition). New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.