What Fairy fann'd my dreams while I slept in the sun? As if a flowering tree were standing over me: Its young stem strong and lithe went branching overhead And willowy sprays around fell tasseling to the ground All with wild blossom gay as is the cherry in May When her fresh flaunt of leaf gives crowns of golden green. The sunlight was enmesh'd in the shifting splendour And I saw through on high to soft lakes of blue sky: Ne'er was mortal slumber so lapt in luxury. Rather -- Endymion -- would I sleep in the sun Neath the trees divinely with day's azure above When my love of Beauty is met by beauty's love. So I slept enchanted under my loving tree Till from his late resting the sweet songster of night Rousing awaken'd me: Then! this - the birdis note -- Was the voice of thy throat which thou gav'st me to kiss. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO HIS WATCH, WHEN HE COULD NOT SLEEP by EDWARD HERBERT THE SUICIDE by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY EARLY RISING by JOHN GODFREY SAXE MUSIC IN CAMP by JOHN REUBEN THOMPSON ONCE I PASS'D THROUGH A POPULOUS CITY by WALT WHITMAN OVERTURE TO A DANCE OF LOCOMOTIVES by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS THE BIRDS: THE BUILDING OF CLOUDCUCKOOCITY by ARISTOPHANES |