We know their dream; enough To know they dreamed and are dead; And what if excess of love Bewildered them till they died? I write it out in a verse— MacDonagh and MacBride And Connolly and Pearse Now and in time to be, Wherever green is worn, Are changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born.—Closing lines of "Easter, 1916" by W. B. Yeats Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

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<div style="float:right; border:2px solid black; padding:10px; margin:0 0 1em 1em; text-align:left; background:white"> From Before Action by [W. N. Hodgson](https://bliptext.com/articles/w-n-hodgson) I, that on my familiar hill Saw with uncomprehending eyes A hundred of thy sunsets spill Their fresh and sanguine sacrifice, Ere the sun swings his noonday sword Must say good-bye to all of this; – By all delights that I shall miss, Help me to die, O Lord. -- last verse; produced two days before the poet's death at the [First day on the Somme](https://bliptext.com/articles/first-day-on-the-somme)

United States

<div style="float:right; border:2px solid black; padding:10px; margin:0 0 1em 1em; text-align:left; background:white"> From [The Road Not Taken](https://bliptext.com/articles/the-road-not-taken-poem) by [Robert Frost](https://bliptext.com/articles/robert-frost) I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I&mdash; I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. -- last verse (lines 16-20) <div style="float:right; border:2px solid blue; padding:10px; margin:0 0 1em 1em; text-align:left; background:skyblue"> From [Chicago](https://bliptext.com/articles/chicago-poem) by [Carl Sandburg](https://bliptext.com/articles/carl-sandburg) Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders: They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I have And they tell me you are crooked and I answer: Yes it is -- Lines 1-7

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