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The Balloon Of The Mind

by William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats

Hands, do what you're bid:
Bring the balloon of the mind
That bellies and drags in the wind
Into its narrow shed.




Quotes of the Day

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
• W. Somerset Maugham


Poems of the Day
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    Fitter to see Him, I may be
    by Emily Dickinson
    968 Fitter to see Him, I may be For the long Hindrance - Grace - to Me - With Summers, and with Winters, grow, Some passing Year - A trait bestow To make Me fairest of the Earth -