# Dreams and delights

Author: Beck, L. Adams (Lily Adams), 1862-1931

Genre: Category: Short Stories

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69786

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Dreams+and+delights+Beck&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

These stories of dreams and delights in breathless jungles of Ceylon, among Himalayan mountains, by Chinese seas, in ancientries beneath dead suns and withered moons, are in truth the soul’s longing to behold the White Swan of the World when in dim twilights of dawn and evening she spreads her wings for flight. And because to such wings time and distance are nothing I have gathered one feather dropped on Dartmoor as she soared to Gaurisankar where on the highest peak of earth, circled by great stars, the Mystic Mother of India dreams her divine dream as the ages unroll beneath her feet. The Snowy Goddess, She who is Very Woman of very woman, knows that whether by Thames or Ganges, Mississ...

## Chapters

- [Part 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dreams-and-delights-69786/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Part 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dreams-and-delights-69786/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dreams-and-delights-69786/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dreams-and-delights-69786/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dreams-and-delights-69786/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dreams-and-delights-69786/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dreams-and-delights-69786/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dreams-and-delights-69786/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dreams-and-delights-69786/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dreams-and-delights-69786/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Part 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dreams-and-delights-69786/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dreams-and-delights-69786/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dreams-and-delights-69786/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dreams-and-delights-69786/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dreams-and-delights-69786/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dreams-and-delights-69786/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dreams-and-delights-69786/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dreams-and-delights-69786/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dreams-and-delights-69786/chapters/19/index.md)