Representative Poetry Online

Poems

1Where sunless rivers weep

2Their waves into the deep,

3She sleeps a charmed sleep:

4 Awake her not.

5Led by a single star,

6She came from very far

7To seek where shadows are

8 Her pleasant lot.

9She left the rosy morn,

10She left the fields of corn,

11For twilight cold and lorn

12 And water springs.

13Through sleep, as through a veil,

14She sees the sky look pale,

15And hears the nightingale

16 That sadly sings.

17Rest, rest, a perfect rest

18Shed over brow and breast;

19Her face is toward the west,

20 The purple land.

21She cannot see the grain

22Ripening on hill and plain;

23She cannot feel the rain

24 Upon her hand.

25Rest, rest, for evermore

26Upon a mossy shore;

27Rest, rest at the heart's core

28 Till time shall cease:

29Sleep that no pain shall wake;

30Night that no morn shall break

31Till joy shall overtake

32 Her perfect peace.