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@@ -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",
+ },
]