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...THE HOUSE OF HOSPITALITIES by THOMAS HARDY CHAUCER; SONNET by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW SHADOWS: 2 by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 119 by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI DOG AND CAT by RUTH ANDERSON BARNETT HIS PRAYER TO PECUNIA by RICHARD BARNFIELD |