Public Domain Poem 52 - A Coat by W.B. Yeats 1865-1939

A Coat
by W.B. Yeats
1865—1939


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.