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On a Poet’s Birthday – Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven by WB Yeats

My New Year’s Resolution for 2021 is to read more poetry. So, this new series of quizzes, will take a poem by a famous poet on their birthday and ask you to fill in the missing words. The poem for this quiz is the brief but beautifully lyrical Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven by WB Yeats whose birthday is on June 13th.

 

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    Had I the heavens’ — cloths,

    • embroidered
    • embellished
  • Question of

    Enwrought with — and silver light,

    • golden
    • gold
  • Question of

    The blue and the — and the dark cloths

    • dim
    • pale
  • Question of

    Of night and — and the half light,

    • light
    • dawn
  • Question of

    I would — the cloths under your feet:

    • spread
    • lay
  • Question of

    But I, being poor, have only my —;

    • dreams
    • thoughts
  • Question of

    I have — my dreams under your feet;

    • spread
    • placed
  • Question of

    Tread — because you tread on my dreams.

    • softly
    • gently

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