Aedh Gives His Beloved Certain Rhymes

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Title:     Aedh Gives His Beloved Certain Rhymes
Author: William Butler Yeats [More Titles by Yeats]

Fasten your hair with a golden pin,
And bind up every wandering tress;
I bade my heart build these poor rhymes:
It worked at them, day out, day in,
Building a sorrowful loveliness
Out of the battles of old times.

You need but lift a pearl-pale hand,
And bind up your long hair and sigh;
And all men's hearts must burn and beat;
And candle-like foam on the dim sand,
And stars climbing the dew-dropping sky,
Live but to light your passing feet.

[The end]
William Butler Yeats's poem: Aedh Gives His Beloved Certain Rhymes

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