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He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven
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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.
William Butler Yeats
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Kay C Cheng (9/21/2009 5:43:00 AM)
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Beautiful, evocative, simple, sincere and vulnerable.
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Jake Hitchcock (3/3/2009 1:09:00 PM)
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How to change your life in 40 seconds! Sit and read this poem...Blithe was right on the poems' succinctness...whew! big word fer me...but perfect! I have been lookin fer this poem for 10 years now! Never used the puter to track it down until this morning! THANKS POEMHUNTER!
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Blithe Spirit (1/10/2009 11:05:00 AM)
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The succinctness, rhythm and sentiment make this, in my view, one of the most perfect poems ever written
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Vivian Griffiths (8/22/2008 6:02:00 PM)
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only 8 lines yet it seems like an epic, i`m welsh and love poetry and this poem is fabulous.
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Tia Maria (7/1/2008 10:53:00 AM)
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In loving memory of my mother in law who shared this heavenly poem with us & has suddenly tiptoed out of our lives, too young too soon. She always did tread softly, a gracious lady until the end.
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Sara Neame (4/24/2008 7:16:00 AM)
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This is so beautiful. One that I set my self to learn by heart
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Janet Halliday (3/11/2007 9:52:00 AM)
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I first saw the last line of this poem on a tombstone for a stillborn baby. It moved me to tears.
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Bernadette Ruski (1/6/2007 7:35:00 AM)
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It really is a beautiful poem. My all time favourite actually.
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Aidan O'Huaithne (11/14/2006 10:52:00 PM)
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Brilliant, if anything I would of liked a bit more, but what else is there? One of the best.
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Sylvie Launay (10/13/2006 5:59:00 PM)
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This poem is one of the most romantic ones I ever saw.
Reading this is like a dream...
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