There are 2 poems called "veronica's napkin". One is by William Butler Yeats, but i need to find out who the other one is by. Help!

I saw an internet reference to Veronica's veil, if that is any help. But what is Yeats's about? I know Bernice's Hair is a constellation, but the last part below makes me think he is talking about menstruation.


The Heavenly Circuit; Berenice's Hair;
Tent-pole of Eden; the tent's drapery;
Symbolical glory of thc earth and air!
The Father and His angelic hierarchy
That made the magnitude and glory there
Stood in the circuit of a needle's eye.

Some found a different pole, and where it stood
A pattern on a napkin dipped in blood.

St Veronica doesn't appear in the Gospel account but is an early tradition of the church and features in the stations of the cross. Her name means True Image.

The story is that as Christ carried his cross to Calvary Veronica was a bystander who felt pity for his sufferings and wiped his face with a cloth (napkin or veil or...) This cloth was then found to have an image of Christ's face imprinted on it. There is some confusion at times between this and the Turin shroud.

I asked for napkins once
at a "glow-in-the-dark" golf competition
(I dont golf )
and the caddie handed me a maxi-pad;
go figure.

Lisa