Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A DREAM OF INSPIRATION, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY


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First Line: To loll back, in a misty hammock, swung
Last Line: Save fancy's hinted chime of unknown seas.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Creative Ability; Dreams; Hammocks; Wind; Inspiration; Creativity; Nightmares


TO loll back, in a misty hammock, swung
From tip to tip of a slim crescent moon
That gems some royal-purple night of June --
To dream of songs that never have been sung
Since the first stars were stilled and God was young
And Heaven as lonesome as a lonesome tune:
To lie thus, lost to earth, with lids aswoon;
By curious, cool winds back and forward flung,
With fluttering hair, blurred eyes, and utter ease
Adrift like lazy blood through every vein;
And then, -- the pulse of unvoiced melodies
Timing the raptured sense to some refrain
That knows nor words, nor rhymes, nor euphonies,
Save Fancy's hinted chime of unknown seas.





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