The poet W.B. Yeats wrote poems inspired by Maud Gonne: "Broken Dreams" and "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven"; some others had references to her. <em>She was his </em><u><em>beloved</em></u><em> </em>, and had great influence in his poetry, although they never had an affair, and she rejected the repeated proposals he had made, which resulted in a troublesome period in his life.
