William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven. Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. 1922. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse

Arthur Quiller-Couch, comp. The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse. 1922.

Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven

By William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)


HAD I the heavens’ embroider’d 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:	5
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.