Yeats’s most stunning poem: The tapestry of his hope for heaven

If I had the brocade of heaven,

woven with golden and silver light,

there would also be azure nights and white daylight

I will spread this brocade at your feet.

But I, so poor, only have a dream;

I will spread my dream under your feet,

Be gentle, because you step on it Follow my dreams.

He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven

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.

This The poem is one of the poems written by the famous Irish poet William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) for the woman he admired, Maud Gonne.

In this poem, Yeats wants to use gorgeous brocade to make a carpet and spread it under the feet of the woman he admires. The poem says that this gorgeous brocade is like night and daylight, Like dawn, like dusk, but what Yeats can actually give is his dream, and this dream is everything to him. In this way, Yeats expressed his deep love for his beloved.

It is a pity that Yeats's love for Maud Gonne can be described as "unrequited love". He proposed to Maude Gonn five times, but was rejected five times. In Yeats's last He was already 52 years old when he proposed, and 28 years had passed since he fell in love with Maud Gonne at first sight under the apple tree, but Maud Gonne never accepted Yeats.