The Tower (book)

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The Tower (XVI) is a Major Arcana card in Tarot.

The Tower was a book of poems by William Butler Yeats, published in 1928.

The title, which the book shares with the second poem, refers to the Thoor Ballylee castle which Yeats purchased and lived in for some time with his family.

The book includes several of Yeats' most famous poems, including Sailing to Byzantium, Leda and the Swan, and Among School Children.

Yeats' concerns with confronting his old age come to the fore with the volume.

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Sailing to Byzantium
The Tower
Meditations in Time of Civil War
Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen
The Wheel
Youth and Age
The New Faces
A Prayer for My Son
Two Songs from a Play
Fragments
Leda and the Swan
On a Picture of a Black Centaur by Edmund Dulac
Among School Children
Colonus' Praise
Wisdom
The Fool by the Roadside
Owen Aherne and His Dancers
A Man Young and Old
The Three Monuments
All Souls' Night

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