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| W. B. Yeats |
William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1865, the son of a
well-known Irish painter, John Butler Yeats. He spent his childhood in County
Sligo, where his parents were raised,...
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| Aedh wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
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by W. B. Yeats |
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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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About "Aedh wishes for the Cloths of Heaven"
According to biographer Joseph Hone, Yeats once commented during a lecture that his poem, "The Cap and Bells," is "the way to win a lady," while "Aedh wishes for the Cloths of Heaven" is the way to lose one. |
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