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A poem in a collection titled for one of these places thinks of finding “a faithful love” “when cradle and spool are past / And I mere shade at last.” For 10 points each:
[10h] “The Fool By The Roadside” is found in a collection titled for what type of place? Another poem in that collection mentions “a sudden blow” and “a shudder in the loins” before describing “Agamemnon dead.”
ANSWER: towers [accept The Tower] (The poem is "Leda and the Swan.")
[10m] This poem from The Tower asks “sages standing in God’s holy fire” to “consume my heart away” after describing “a tattered coat upon a stick.”
ANSWER: Sailing to Byzantium
[10e] The Tower was by this poet who wrote that “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold” in “The Second Coming.”
ANSWER: W. B. Yeats [or William Butler Yeats]
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