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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TRAGEDIES: 8, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS
First Line: I dream'd I was in sicily
Last Line: I'd tied at the headstone long ago.
Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri
Subject(s): Dreams; Graves; Sicily; Trees; Nightmares; Tombs; Tombstones
First Line: I dream'd I was in sicily
Last Line: I'd tied at the headstone long ago.
Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri
Subject(s): Dreams; Graves; Sicily; Trees; Nightmares; Tombs; Tombstones
I dream'd I was in Sicily,
All sky and hills and flowers;
We sat us under a citron-tree
And courted, hours and hours.
I woke by the dunes of a bleak north-land,
Along a lonely grave in the snow;
The salt wind rattled the ivy-band
I'd tied at the headstone long ago.
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