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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HE TELLS OF A VALLEY FULL OF LOVERS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamed that I stood in a valley, and amid sighs
Last Line: Till all the valleys of the world have been withered away.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Women; Valleys
First Line: I dreamed that I stood in a valley, and amid sighs
Last Line: Till all the valleys of the world have been withered away.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Women; Valleys
I dreamed that I stood in a valley, and amid sighs,
For happy lovers passed two by two where I stood;
And I dreamed my lost love came stealthily out of the wood
With her cloud-pale eyelids falling on dream-dimmed eyes:
I cried in my dream, 'O women, bid the young men lay
'Their heads on your knees, and drown their eyes with your hair,
'Or remembering hers they will find no other face fair
'Till all the valleys of the world have been withered away.'
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