Tuesday 28 April 2009

Cloths of Heaven


HE WISHES FOR THE CLOTHS OF HEAVEN

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and 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.


W.B. Yeats 1865 -1939

3 comments:

  1. I love Yeats!

    And...I love the 2nd picture so much I put it as my background on my computer...gorgeous!!

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  2. It's the view to the side of the house - a perfectly unremarkable view, transformed yesterday by the setting sun. I'm glad you liked it.

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  3. Oh! If you click on the link to the Peterkin Papers on my blog, you can read it online.

    It's so funny you asked if it was similar to The Borrowers! As I was reading it this morning, I thought, "Boy this writing is good! It reminds me alot of the style of Mary Norton's style!"

    It is about a rather quirky family:)

    I think you'd enjoy it!

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