Adam's Curse (poem)

Adam's Curse (poem)

Adam's Curse is a poem written by William Butler Yeats. In the poem, Yeats describes the difficulty of creating something beautiful, which he attributes to Adam's curse as related in the Bible. The poem was one of Yeats' earliest works, published in 1902.

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