Love

Aedh Tells of the Perfect Beauty

by W. B. Yeats 1865–1939

From The Wind Among the Reeds (1899)

Love

O cloud-pale eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes
The poets labouring all their days
To build a perfect beauty in rhyme
Are overthrown by a woman's gaze
And by the unlabouring brood of the skies:
And therefore my heart will bow, when dew
Is dropping sleep, until God burn time,
Before the unlabouring stars and you.

MLA

Yeats, W. B. “Aedh Tells of the Perfect Beauty.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/yeats/197/.

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Yeats, W. B. “Aedh Tells of the Perfect Beauty.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/yeats/197/.

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