He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven by William Butler Yeats

17. November 2005, 11:38 Uhrwilliam butler yeatsrinabeana

I’m still working through Garrison Keillor’s Good Poems and I fell in love with this one.

He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
By William Butler Yeats

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.

2 comments:

  1. JoJo, 10. November 2009, 14:03

    Hello! and many thanks for helping to revive a love of this wonderful poet. Been lookingonline to find thsi one, just had a fragment, so thankyou.Maybe I shall start writing one again…….I hope you continue to be inspired by the works you read.JoJo

     
  2. rinabeana, 10. November 2009, 18:58

    Thanks for commenting! I love Yeats’s work, and this poem is one of my favorites.

     

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