{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/yeats/lpy/lpy032.htm","path":"neu/yeats/lpy/lpy032.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/yeats/lpy/lpy032.htm","text":"WHEN the flaming lute-thronged angelic door is wide;\n When an immortal passion breathes in mortal clay;\n Our hearts endure the scourge, the plaited thorns, the way\n Crowded with bitter faces, the wounds in palm and side,\n The vinegar-heavy sponge, the flowers by Kedron stream;\n We will bend down and loosen our hair over you,\n That it may drop faint perfume, and be heavy with dew,\n Lilies of death-pale hope, roses of passionate dream.","title":"Later Poems of Yeats: The Wind Among the Reeds (1899): Th...","type":"page"}