William Butler Yeats Quotes

And when you sigh from kiss to kiss I hear white Beauty sighing, too, For hours when all must fade like dew.

William Butler Yeats

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• And when you sigh from kiss to kiss I hear white Beauty sighing, too, For hours when all must fade like dew.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Beauty
  • Hours
  • Kissing