• "Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven", also known as "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven" in later publications, is a poem by William Butler Yeats. It...
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    Malcolm Muggeridge (category Rectors of the University of Edinburgh)
    life. The title is an allusion to the last line of the poem Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven by William Butler Yeats: "Tread softly because you tread...
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    of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, and along with Lady Gregory founded the...
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    Michael Mosoeu Moerane (category University of Fort Hare alumni)
    written by Moerane, is clearly based on W. B. Yeats's "Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven", although it is darker in tone: Hoja ke na le gauda, Mahakoe...
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    Howth (category Ports and harbours of the Republic of Ireland)
    The plaque contains the couplet “I have spread my dreams under your feet/ Tread softly because you tread on my dreams” from his poem 'Aedh Wishes for...
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    instead of allowing her the freedoms given to male children. This was after Yeats was rejected in marriage by Maud Gonne. In Oates' opinion, Yeats wishes his...
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    Yeats, The Wind Among the Reeds including "Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven"; Irish poet published in the United Kingdom, The Wind Among the Reeds...
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  • Tread softly (composition) (category Compositions for symphony orchestra)
    minutes in performance. The work's title comes from the final line of poem "Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven" by W. B. Yeats. In the score program note...
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  • Herbert Bedford (category Alumni of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama)
    Roundels for military band (1922) Unaccompanied songs: Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven, The Heart has Chambers Twain, The Last of the Leaves on the Bough...
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  • Peter Gellhorn (category People interned in the Isle of Man during World War II)
    (1940) Mooragh for male voices and strings (1940) Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven, song (1995) List of émigré composers in Britain Daily Telegraph, Obituary:...
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  • "The Song of the Happy Shepherd" is a poem by William Butler Yeats. It was first published under this title in his first book, The Wanderings of Oisin...
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    Nicolae Iorga (category Members of the Senate of Romania)
    translating from Marie of Edinburgh, Iorga authored versions of poems by William Butler Yeats ("Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven", "When You Are Old")...
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    Dun Emer Press (category Publishing companies of Ireland)
    after Emer, daughter of Forgall Monach, wife of the hero Cúchulainn in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology, a figure famous for her artistic skills as...
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  • The Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1892–1935 is a poetry anthology edited by W. B. Yeats and published in 1936 by Oxford University Press. A long introductory...
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    arranged by Eoin Conway The Spire by Stephen Gardner The Smock Race at Finglas by Stephen Gardner Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven by Eoghan Desmond Obsessive...
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  • a line from Yeats' poem "Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven" This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Tread softly. If an...
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  • Cuala Press (category Publishing companies of Ireland)
    the Celtic Revival of the early 20th century. Originally Dun Emer Press, from 1908 until the late 1940s it functioned as Cuala Press, publicising the...
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  • gather beneath its broad branches,   All ye who dare strive to be free, And Heaven will surely protect those   Who guard Ireland's Liberty-Tree! Sinha, M....
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  • Dilys Elwyn-Edwards (category Alumni of the Royal College of Music)
    of an Angel". Sony Classical, 1998 Jones, Aled. Ave Maria. Sain, 2005. CD. "Elwyn-Edwards: The Cloths of Heaven". Amazon. "Aedh wishes for the Cloths...
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  • metaphor for his marriage and his vision of love, Yeats also loosely borrowed from the fiction of The Arabian Nights to articulate his fascination for the desert...
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  • Michael Yeats (category MEPs for the Republic of Ireland 1977–1979)
    Valera. He stood at the subsequent election in 1954 for the 8th Seanad but was not elected. From 1961 to 1980 he was a member of Seanad Éireann. In 1961...
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    catalyst for Yeats's creation of the poem. As Vice President and Minister of Home Affairs in the Cosgrave Government, O'Higgins had enforced the Army Emergency...
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  • "Song of the Old Mother" is a poem by William Butler Yeats that first appeared in The Wind Among the Reeds anthology, published in 1899. The poem echoes...
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