He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
William Butler Yeats * Track #36 On The Wind Among the Reeds
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- #36He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
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He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven by William Butler Yeats
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Written as an attempt to gain reciprocated affection from English-born Irish-revolutionary Maud Gonne, a woman for whom Yeats longed for the majority of his life – to no avail. In this poem he places romantic dreams above material possessions.
The title, with the third person pronoun “he”, but writ...
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven Annotated
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.