"HANDS, do what you're bid; / Bring the balloon of the mind / That bellies and drags in the wind / Into its narrow shed."
— Yeats, W. B. (1865-1939)
Author
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Macmillan
Date
1919
Metaphor
"HANDS, do what you're bid; / Bring the balloon of the mind / That bellies and drags in the wind / Into its narrow shed."
Metaphor in Context
HANDS, do what you're bid;
Bring the balloon of the mind
That bellies and drags in the wind
Into its narrow shed.
(p. 66)
Categories
Provenance
Reading
Citation
Yeats, W.B. The Wild Swans at Coole. New York: Macmillan, 1919. <Link to Google Books edition>
Date of Entry
02/27/2009
