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diff --git a/static/poems.js b/static/poems.js index 5b5d514..e51bddf 100644 --- a/static/poems.js +++ b/static/poems.js @@ -120,4 +120,27 @@ I only know that summer sang in me A little while, that in me sings no more.`, "link": "https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46557/what-lips-my-lips-have-kissed-and-where-and-why", }, + { + "line": "Locked and frozen in each eye".split(' '), + "scansion": ['/', 'x', '/x', '/', 'x', '/'], + "title": "In Memory of W. B. Yeats", + "collection": "", + "author": "W. H. Auden", + "meter": "catalectic trochaic tetrameter", + "ctx": `Earth, receive an honoured guest: +William Yeats is laid to rest. +Let the Irish vessel lie +Emptied of its poetry. + +In the nightmare of the dark +All the dogs of Europe bark, +And the living nations wait, +Each sequestered in its hate; + +Intellectual disgrace +Stares from every human face, +And the seas of pity lie +Locked and frozen in each eye.`, + "link": "https://poets.org/poem/memory-w-b-yeats", + }, ] |