This poem references its author's previous work A Vision, and it was published in the collection Michael Robartes and the Dancer. William Blake's work Urizen is referenced in the line about the "stony
This poem references its author's previous work A Vision, and it was published in the collection Michael Robartes and the Dancer. William Blake's work Urizen is referenced in the line about the "stony sleep" of a giant sphinx that arises from Spiritus Mundi. Asserting that "the ceremony of innocence is drowned," it presages the ending of a 2000-year historical cycle that comes about as "mere anarchy is loosed upon the world." For ten points, name this poem relating the imminent birth of a rough beast slouching toward Bethlehem, written by W.B. Yeats.
This poem references its author's previous work A Vision, and it was published in the collection Michael Robartes and the Dancer.
“The {Second Coming}”