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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HE TELLS OF THE PERFECT BEAUTY, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: O cloud-pale eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes
Last Line: Before the unlabouring stars and you.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Variant Title(s): Aedh Tells Of The Perfect Beauty
Subject(s): Beauty; Love
First Line: O cloud-pale eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes
Last Line: Before the unlabouring stars and you.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Variant Title(s): Aedh Tells Of The Perfect Beauty
Subject(s): Beauty; 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.
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