Tread Softly
Poem
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
Had I the heaven's embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
William Butler Yeats
Listen
Read by Maite Jáuregui
Music
String Quartet in F Major, 1. Allegro Moderato Très Doux, Ravel
Melos Quartet
Image
Béatrice, Redon
Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington
Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington