Category: Poetry
Over the mountains of sleep, my Love, Over the hills of dream, Beyond the walls of care and fate, Where the loves and memories teem; We come to a world of fancy free, Where hearts forget to weep;-- Over the mountains of dream, my Love, Over the hills of sleep.
Over the mountains of sleep, my Love, Over the hills of dream, Beyond the walls of care and fate, Where the loves and memories teem; We come to a world of fancy free, Where hear...
2. Part 2And he rose with the last despairing strength Of life's tenacity, And he swore by the blood of man in him, And God's eternity, "'Tis my life, my very soul he wants; That he shal...
3. Part 3I was a girl of the South, with eyes as tender And dreamy and soft and true as the skies of my people; But I was a slave and an alien captured in battle, And brought to the Nort...
4. Part 4Yea, he is dead; this mighty seaman! Four long centuries ago. Beating westward, ever westward, Beating out from old Bristowe, Saw he far in visions lifted, Down the golden sunse...
5. Part 5Out of the northern wastes, lands of winter and death, Regions of ruin and age, spaces of solitude lost; You wash and thunder and sweep, And dream and sparkle and creep, Turbule...