Monday, February 12, 2007

(belated) Poem Sunday: Yeats

He wishes for the cloths of heaven

Had I the heavens embroidered cloths
Enwrought with golden and silver light
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light;
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams
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~William Butler Yeats

2 comments:

Owl of the Desert said...

I love this one!

Nomos said...

Yeats is one of my favorite poets. I think this poem is especially beautiful.