Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.

The Realists

William Butler Yeats

HOPE that you may understand.

What can books, of men that wive

In a dragon-guarded land;

Paintings of the dolphin drawn;

Sea nymphs, in their pearly waggons,

Do but wake the hope to live

That had gone

With the dragons.