18. A Poet to his Beloved. Yeats, W. B. 1899. The Wind Among the Reeds

W.B. Yeats (1865–1939). The Wind Among the Reeds. 1899.

18. A Poet to his Beloved

I BRING you with reverent hands
The books of my numberless dreams;
White woman that passion has worn
As the tide wears the dove-gray sands,
And with heart more old than the horn	5
That is brimmed from the pale fire of time:
White woman with numberless dreams
I bring you my passionate rhyme.