A Coat
A Coat
Original Text
Yeats, William Butler. W. B. Yeats: Selected Poetry: 63. Ed. by A. Norman Jeffares. London: Macmillan, 1968.
1I made my song a coat
2Covered with embroideries
3Out of old mythologies
4From heel to throat;
5But the fools caught it,
6Wore it in the world’s eyes
7As though they’d wrought it.
8Song, let them take it
9For there’s more enterprise
10In walking naked.
Publication Start Year
1914
Publication Notes
Responsibilities, 1914.
RPO poem Editors
Ian Lancashire, assisted by Ana Berdinskikh
RPO Edition
2009
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