“A starlit or a moonlit dome disdains
All that man is,
All mere complexities,
The fury and the mire of human veins.”

— W.B. Yeats, book The Winding Stair and Other Poems

Byzantium http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1455/, st. 1 <br class="br">The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933) <br class="br">Context: The unpurged images of day recede;<br>The Emperor’s drunken soldiery are abed;<br>Night resonance recedes, night walkers’ song<br>After great cathedral gong;<br>A starlit or a moonlit dome disdains<br>All that man is,<br>All mere complexities,<br>The fury and the mire of human veins.

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Irish poet and playwright 1865–1939

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