The Rose Tree (poem)

The Rose Tree (poem)

"The Rose Tree" is a poem by William Butler Yeats.

It describes a fictional conversation between James Connolly and Padraig Pearse, the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising.

External links

* [http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~hynes/309K/student_websites/Goode/The%20Rose%20Tree.html words of the poem and some commentary]


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