The Ph…acians Why from the dreamy meadows , More fair than any dream, Why will you seek the shadows Beyond the ocean stream? Through straits of storm and peril, Through firths unsailed before, Why make you for the sterile, The dark Kimmerian shore? There no bright streams are flowing, There day and night are one, No harvest time, no sowing, No sight of any sun; No sound of song or tabor, No dance shall greet you there; No noise of mortal labour, Breaks on the blind chill air. Are ours not happy places, Where gods with mortals trod? Saw not our sires the faces Of many a present god? The Seekers Nay, now no god comes hither, In shape that men may see; They fare we know not whither, We know not what they be. Yea, though the sunset lingers Far in your fairy glades, Though yours the sweetest singers, Though yours the kindest maids, Yet here be the true shadows, Here in the doubtful light; Amid the dreamy meadows No shadow haunts the night. We seek a city splendid, With light beyond the sun; Or lands where dreams are ended, And works and days are done. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IDYLLS OF THE KING: THE MARRIAGE OF GERAINT by ALFRED TENNYSON TO A SISTER OF CHARITY by EDWIN GEORGE ALEXANDER THE REGULAR STORY by BERTON BRALEY THE SPRING OF THE YEAR by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN PREPARATION by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN AH, WOE IS ME! MY MOTHER DEAR by ROBERT BURNS AN URBAN ECLOGUE by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS |