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He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven - Poem by William Butler Yeats

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.


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  • Rookie rtdrdt (11/11/2019 11:26:00 AM)

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  • Gold Star - 222,058 Points Chinedu Dike (11/8/2019 8:54:00 AM)

    Well expressed thoughts and feelings. A beautiful work of art. (Report) Reply

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  • Gold Star - 75,362 Points Unnikrishnan E S (10/27/2019 1:52:00 AM)

    Yeats has brought out the contrasting images here. The rich-poor divide.
    The poem opens with the haughty richness indicated by the Cloths of Heaven” embroidered in gold and silver light. But then it turns out that it is just a dream. The poor has only dreams to spread before the world. So, ” tread softly” is the message to the rich, because, it is on the dreams of the poor that you, the rich, tread.... Very poignant write.     (Report) Reply

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  • Gold Star - 75,362 Points Unnikrishnan E S (10/26/2019 9:11:00 AM)

    Ha! Lovely poem. The poems is on “his” desire for the cloths of heaven... The reader is taken on a fantastic ride in the gay abandon of the heavens. But, abruptly, he is rudely dropped back to earth:
    “
    But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
    I have spread my dreams under your feet;
    Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. “” The reader misses a heartbeat or two...     (Report) Reply

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  • Rookie Innocent Bhebhe (9/26/2019 11:17:00 AM)

    May I have a way of analyzing poems if anyone can help (Report) Reply

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  • Rookie Rayhan (9/8/2019 11:17:00 PM)

    Superb (Report) Reply

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  • Gold Star - 9,938 Points Castellenas John (3/27/2019 3:53:00 PM)

    Yeats words, heavy and true. A legend of poetry Mr. Yeats. (Report) Reply

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  • Rookie Parameswaran Nair (DPN) (10/23/2018 12:13:00 AM)

    The poem ends with a prayer not to tread hard on the dreams. The contrasting dreams and the poverty are left to the God to decide upon as to which one is to prevail. (Report) Reply

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  • Rookie Yvonne deVastey (cloudsunlimited@aol.com) (10/8/2018 12:40:00 PM)

    I believed that I had heard of a slightly different quote: ...but I, being poor, have only my dreams. I spread my dreams beneath your feet, tread softly, lest you tread on my dreams. Do you have any info on this version? (Report) Reply

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  • Rookie Codeworm (9/5/2018 9:33:00 PM)

    Absolutely beautiful! Warms the heart...very touching (Report) Reply

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