# A Terrible Beauty Is Born

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- Book: [A Terrible Beauty Is Born](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-butler-yeats/a-terrible-beauty-is-born) ([A Terrible Beauty Is Born.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-butler-yeats/a-terrible-beauty-is-born.md))
- Authors: [William Butler](https://www.bookquiver.com/william-butler-yeats)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4125-153-9
- Published: 2016-03-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

'But I, being poor, have only my dreams; / I have spread my dreams under your feet...' By turns joyful and despairing, some of the twentieth century's greatest verse on fleeting youth, fervent hopes and futile sacrifice.