Robert Bridges, ed. (1844–1930). The Spirit of Man: An Anthology. 1916. | | | | Aedh tells of the Rose in his heart |
William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) |
| | | ALL 1 things uncomely and broken, | |
| all things worn out and old, | |
| The cry of a child by the roadway, | |
| the creak of a lumbering cart, | |
| The heavy steps of the ploughman, | 5 |
| splashing the wintry mould, | |
| Are wronging your image that blossoms | |
| a rose in the deeps of my heart. | |
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| The wrong of unshapely things | |
| is a wrong too great to be told; | 10 |
| I hunger to build them anew | |
| and sit on a green knoll apart, | |
| With the earth and the sky and the water | |
| remade, like a casket of gold | |
| For my dreams of your image that blossoms | 15 |
| a rose in the deeps of my heart. | |
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