Classic and Contemporary Poetry

A COAT, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: I made my song a coat
Last Line: In walking naked.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Imagination; Poetry & Poets; Vision; Fancy

I made my song a coat
Covered with embroideries
Out of old mythologies
From heel to throat;
But the fools caught it,
Wore it in the world's eyes
As though they'd wrought it.
Song, let them take it,
For there's more enterprise
In walking naked.