Friday, September 12, 2008

Cloths of Heaven

I love this poem. It's so simple; there is neither flatulence nor bombastic words.

The author uses the same word to form the poem's rhyme- Cloth with cloth, light with light.

Beautiful.

: ) Hope you'll enjoy it as much as I do :)


Cloths of Heaven


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.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Not very creative? But I like poems in general anyway, so I like it!


Lines on Road
by OrangeHead

There are lines on the road
Scattered in all directions
Lines of yellow and white on a narrow road
And arrows to point you in the right direction
I would spread my legs wider to reach the next zebra line
Walk faster with Mr Green Man
We learn not to park on the line
Or else when summon come I'll be an unhappy man

Winks,
OrangeHead

Merky said...

aha! but that's exactly the whole point. There is no attempt to impress, which makes this poem an entirely undiluted piece resonating the author's feelings~!

but anyway kudos to you OrangeHead- for your wit. =D