Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE DREAMS OF LONG AGO, by IMBERT GALLOIX


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THE DREAMS OF LONG AGO, by                    
First Line: Mine was a vernal world, delectable with flowers
Last Line: -- forget, my soul, the dreams of long ago!
Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Nature; Past; Nightmares


MINE was a vernal world, delectable with flowers.
Unto a phosphor heaven ascended then the sun.
I wandered in my sleep through coverts halcyon,
Down mystic forest aisles, by streams elate with showers;
But now the dells are lorn and silted up with snow;
Sere is their loveliness . . . and desolate the bowers.
Where are the magic dreams of long ago?

O Sun, thou paintest yet the morn's auroral glory.
O Stars, your spray is spilt upon the midnight still.
Azure and green of Eden, ripe gold upon the hill,
Old misty face of Leman, Alps sempiterne and hoary,
Could I but see you once my drouthy heart would fill.
O flagon of my lake, I drank your wondrous wine;
With a promise of glad days Love rocked me to and fro;
But now my heart is drained, and Love no more I know.
Beggared of stars and sun, the outcast's husks are mine
-- Forget, my soul, the dreams of long ago!





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