W. B. Yeats, He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven

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 He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven lines 6–8 first published 1899

Edition: The Wind Among the Reeds (1899), where the poem is titled “Aedh wishes for the Cloths of Heaven”
Read the whole text: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Wind_Among_the_Reeds/Aedh_wishes_for_the_Cloths_of_Heaven
Rights: Public domain: Yeats died in 1939; this edition was published in 1899.

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