Queen Berengaria's Courtesy, and Other Poems By the Lady E. Stuart Wortley. In Three Vols |
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OH! I HAVE MANY DREAMS. |
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OH! I HAVE MANY DREAMS.
Oh! I have many Dreams—
A fair World all mine own—
In the woods—and by the streams—
Nor then am I alone.
A fair World all mine own—
In the woods—and by the streams—
Nor then am I alone.
But in the battling crowd
No dreams do bless my thought,
The World's I am avowed,
And in its toils am caught!
No dreams do bless my thought,
The World's I am avowed,
And in its toils am caught!
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Imagination's Slave
Is Lord of all around,
But cramped as in the Grave
Is he the World hath bound!
Is Lord of all around,
But cramped as in the Grave
Is he the World hath bound!
Oh! give me back my dreams,
Give back Earth, Air, and Heaven,
Stars, flowers, gales, clouds, and streams,
Free from the World's dull leaven.
Give back Earth, Air, and Heaven,
Stars, flowers, gales, clouds, and streams,
Free from the World's dull leaven.
Then can I coin the Sun
To a treasure all mine own,
Nor reck he shines upon
Thronged Worlds—mine—mine alone!
To a treasure all mine own,
Nor reck he shines upon
Thronged Worlds—mine—mine alone!
Then, those thronged Worlds can I
Make mine too as I list,
In Man's vain sphere I die,
In Nature's sphere exist!
Make mine too as I list,
In Man's vain sphere I die,
In Nature's sphere exist!
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Then let me still avoid
Mixed crowds—by weak minds sought,
There sink—o'erborne—destroyed—
The Feeling and the Thought!
Mixed crowds—by weak minds sought,
There sink—o'erborne—destroyed—
The Feeling and the Thought!
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