Dream Land
Dream Land
Original Text
The Gem, 1 (Jan. 1850). Text from Christina Rossetti, Poems (1890).
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.
Publication Start Year
1850
RPO poem Editors
Margaret Frances (Sister St. Francis) Nims
RPO Edition
3RP 3.301.
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