Explore "Some Verses: Sonnets: A DREAM IN FEVER" by Helen Hay Whitney on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
A vast screen of unequal downward lines, / An orange purple halo 'round the rain, / Twists from a space whose very size is pain.
Here in this vortex day with night combines; / Ruby and Emerald glint their blazing spines; / Closing and smothering, wheels a brazen main, / A shuddering sea of silence; in its train / A Thought -- a cry, whose snake -- fear trembling twines / Around -- above -- alive yet uttered not; / But my heart hears -- and shrieking dies of dread, / Then soaring breaks its bands and o'er the rim / White winged it rends the dark with jagged blot, / Glimpsing the iris gateway barred ahead, / And, gazing thro', the eyes of cherubim.