In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz
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title:
In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz
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"In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz" is a poem in two stanzas by William Butler Yeats, written in 1927 and published in his 1933 collection The Winding Stair and Other Poems. Eva Gore-Booth and Constance Markiewicz were two sisters who lived at Lissadell House in County Sligo. Constance (Con) died in 1927, and Eva in 1926. The young Yeats had been encouraged by them and entranced by their beauty. They are remembered in the poem as "Two girls in silk kimonos, both / beautiful, one a g
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1933 poem by William Butler Yeats
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Memory_of_Eva_Gore-Booth_and_Con_Markiewicz
date created:
2009-05-19T18:32:24Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T15:49:42Z
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