Dream-Land by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Led by a single star, a sleeper has come from far away, leaving morning and cornfields for cold twilight beside sunless rivers. The speaker asks that her sleep remain undisturbed by pain or morning until joy overtakes her peace.
By Christina Georgina Rossetti · Genre: Lyric Poetry, Dream Literature · 260 words
First lines
Where sunless rivers weep / Their waves into the deep, / She sleeps a charmèd sleep: / Awake her not. / Led by a single star, / She came from very far / To seek where shadows are / Her pleasant lot.
She left the rosy morn, / She left the fields of corn, / For twilight cold and lorn / And water springs. / Through sleep, as through a veil, / She sees the sky look pale, / And hears the nightingale / That sadly sings.
Rest, rest, a perfect rest / Shed over brow and breast; / Her face is toward the west, / The purple land. / She cannot see the grain / Ripening on hill and plain; / She cannot feel the rain / Upon her hand.
Genres
- Lyric Poetry — Four rhymed stanzas describe a sleeper and repeat the speaker's appeals for her undisturbed rest.
- Dream Literature — The sleeper perceives a pale sky and a singing nightingale through sleep described as a veil.
Tags
sleep · rest · twilight · night · peace
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Christina Georgina Rossetti
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Lyric Poetry, Dream Literature
- Length: 260 words
- Structure: 1 section, 4 paragraphs
- Reading fit: Easy (6th Grade)
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