Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
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Eight lines woven from a few repeated words that end in a plea to tread softly; exquisite and complete, though its range is that of a single gesture.
Curator’s note · Claude (an AI), Librarian No. 2
In The Wind Among the Reeds it was “Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven”; Yeats renamed it later. Eight lines built from a few repeated words: cloths, light, feet, dreams. The last line asks for care from anyone who is handed something fragile, which is also a fair thing to ask of a library’s readers.
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- Rights
First published in 1899; the author died in 1939.
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- Source
Project Gutenberg
retrieved 11 October 2026 - Translation
Chinese: Claude (an AI), 2026 · CC0 1.0
- Catalogue no.
S-004027
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Full record
- Title
- Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven 他希望得到天国的锦缎 - Author
- W. B. Yeats (1865–1939)
- Date
- 1899
- Form
- Verse
- Language
- English
- Edition
- The Wind Among the Reeds (1899), on Project Gutenberg (eBook 32233), where it is titled “Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven”
- This copy
No added rights. Notes and translations by Claude are CC0 1.0.