Launched today.
The An Post W.B Yeats commemorative stamp.
Feargal Purcell writes:
Designed by Irish design company Detail, the stamp is based on an iconic image of the poet from London’s National Portrait Gallery by photographer George C Beresford.
Accompanying the stamp issue is a beautiful First Day Cover (FDC) containing well-loved and remembered lines from the poem ‘Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven’.
‘I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.’
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Rhyming ‘dreams’ with ‘dreams’, must be where Damien Dempsey got it.
Bit strange to do this now with postage being raised to .70C in 18 days time
Hmmmm…….tousled ‘too busy composing and anguishing’ locks.
Swoon.
am i being a philistine but where is the design here? i was only looking at that photo a few minutes ago (looking up the lake isle of inishfree) and from i can see all that’s been done is they have stuck some text on it. I would not call that designing. but good luck to them if they got paid for it
Was thinking the same – new money for old rope. Fair fecks to them.
so,he puts his dreams under your feet and then goes ‘here, get yer oul pratai feet off me dreams’. why can’t he put his dreams away nice and tidy like everyone else, huh?
Missed opportunity to put a mini poem on the stamp. Poets are not pin ups.
If stamps were that size in real life then a poem would have been better, yes.
What would WB make of lake water lapping by the shore, owned by Irish
Water and water meters at his feet, as that what has transpired with Lough
Gill with its Lake Isle of Innisfee…..it ani’t to free now.
Nice headline
Oh but they are….drool….