Poem by William Butler Yeats

A Dream of a Blessed Spirit

ALL the heavy days are over;
Leave the body's coloured pride
Underneath the grass and clover,
With the feet laid side by side.
 
One with her are mirth and duty;
Bear the gold-embroidered dress,
For she needs not her sad beauty,
To the scented oaken press.
 
Hers the kiss of Mother Mary,
The long hair is on her face;
Still she goes with footsteps wary
Full of earth's old timid grace.
 
With white feet of angels seven
Her white feet go glimmering;
And above the deep of heaven,
Flame on flame, and wing on wing.

1. The Rose of Battle
2. The Rose of the World
3. The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water
4. For Anne Gregory
5. The Lover Tells of the Rose in His Heart

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