Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SERENADE, by JOHN DAVIDSON


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First Line: With stars, with trailing galaxies
Last Line: Dreaming a dream of me!
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Night; Sleep; Nightmares; Bedtime


WITH stars, with trailing galaxies,
Like a White-rose bower in bloom,
Darkness garlands the vaulted skies,
Day's ethereal tomb;
A whisper without from the briny west
Thrills and sweetens the gloom;
Within, Miranda seeks her rest
High in her turret-room.

Armies upon her walls encamp
In silk and silver thread;
Chased and fretted, her silver lamp
Dimly lights her bed;
And now the silken screen is drawn,
The velvet coverlet spread;
And the pillow of down and snowy lawn
Mantles about her head.

With violet-scented rain
Sprinkle the rushy floor;
Let the tapestry hide the tinted pane,
And cover the chamber door;
But leave a glimmering beam,
Miranda belamour,
To touch and gild my waking dream,
For I am your troubadour.

I Sound my throbbing lyre,
And sing to myself below;
Her damsel sits beside the fire
Crooning a song I know;
The tapestry shakes on the wall,
The shadows hurry and go,
The silent flames leap up and fall,
And the muttering birch-logs glow.

Deep and sweet she sleeps,
Because of her love for me;
And deep and sweet the peace that keeps
My happy heart in fee!
Peace on the heights, in the deeps,
Peace over hill and lea,
Peace through the star-lit steeps,
Peace on the starlit sea,
Because a simple maiden sleeps
Dreaming a dream of me!





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