Breathe a song for love's delight 'Twixt the sleeping and the waking! Starbeams on her pillow white, Halo her in yellow light! Is her bosom tranquil quite? Oh, so still, her heart seems breaking! 'Twixt the sleeping and the waking, Breathe a song for love's delight! Smile for love a little while, Now her dreams are rosy round her And her couch a fragrant isle Floating in a sea of smile! Waking, what may reconcile For the Edens slumber found her? Now her dreams are rosy round her, Smile for love a little while! 'Tis a dusk of butterflies. All the twilight stirs with sleeping. Through her casement, drowsy-wise Peers the moon of Paradise. Blossom mouth and violet eyes, What to you a gray world's weeping? Draw the curtains! Leave her sleeping In a dusk of butterflies! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WEEDS by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY THE CENCI; A TRAGEDY: ACTS 4-5 by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 56 by EDWARD TAYLOR VANITAS VANITATUM, FR. THE DEVIL'S CASE LAW by JOHN WEBSTER AN ARAB WELCOME by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH ON SENDING MY SON AS A PRESENT TO DR. SWIFT by MARY BARBER THE GOLDEN ODES OF PRE-ISLAMIC ARABIA: EL HARITH by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT |