“I have spread my dreams under your feet; / Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
Permalink: W. B. Yeats
About this quote
The poet wishes he could lay the embroidered heavens under the beloved's feet and discovers that he has only his dreams to offer. The request in the last line, to tread softly, is what every lover ends up asking for.
Source: He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven