Sixty-Five Sonnets With Prefatory Remarks on the Accordance of the Sonnet with the Powers of the English Language: Also, A Few Miscellaneous Poems [by Thomas Doubleday] |
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XLIX.
One noon, while shelter'd from the breezeless heat,I dream'd, when sleeping 'mid a waste of flowers,
That, from their cells, bright, dwarfish forms, the powers
Presiding here, tripp'd forth their guest to greet;
Simplicity, health, peace, contentment, sweet,
All who had banish'd from those quiet bowers
The fierce and gloomier passions, 'mong the towers
And strife of men, that I was wont to meet.
Yet in the peaceful train an urchin, arm'd,
Would threaten with his needly dart my breast,
While smiling, they, as arch he look'd about him,
Thus said and mock'd me when I seem'd alarm'd,
“Love fear'd so now will soon be most carest
And thou, like us, wilt scarce exist without him.”
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