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1899 [w-b-yeats] He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
The Wind Among the Reeds

Eight lines: having neither the heavens' embroidered cloths nor anything but dreams, he spreads the dreams under her feet and asks her to tread softly.

#lyric #love #poverty #1890s
1899 [w-b-yeats] The Song of Wandering Aengus
The Wind Among the Reeds

A silver trout caught in a hazel wood turns into a glimmering girl and vanishes; the rest is an old man's whole life spent walking after her, to pluck the silver apples of the moon and the golden apples of the sun.

#ballad #myth #quest #1890s

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