He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven by Wb Yeats

Song Meaning

This poem paints a vivid picture of a speaker's profound, almost desperate, love. The initial imagery is grand and celestial, with the speaker imagining possessing the very fabrics of the heavens. These cloths are described with a rich palette of colors and light – "golden and silver light," "blue and the dim and the dark cloths of night and light and the half light." This sets up an almost divine offering, a desire to lay the universe itself at the feet of the beloved.