Love

The Heart of the Woman

by W. B. Yeats 1865–1939

From The Wind Among the Reeds (1899)

Love

O what to me the little room
That was brimmed up with prayer and rest;
He bade me out into the gloom,
And my breast lies upon his breast.

O what to me my mother's care,
The house where I was safe and warm;
The shadowy blossom of my hair
Will hide us from the bitter storm.

O hiding hair and dewy eyes,
I am no more with life and death,
My heart upon his warm heart lies,
My breath is mixed into his breath.

MLA

Yeats, W. B. “The Heart of the Woman.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/yeats/186/.

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Yeats, W. B. “The Heart of the Woman.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/yeats/186/.

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