Grass of Parnassus

A Dream

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A Dream

Why will you haunt my sleep?

You know it may not be,

The grave is wide and deep,

That sunders you and me;

In bitter dreams we reap

The sorrow we have sown,

And I would I were asleep,

Forgotten and alone!

We knew and did not know,

We saw and did not see,

The nets that long ago

Fate wove for you and me;

The cruel nets that keep

The birds that sob and moan,

And I would we were asleep,

Forgotten and alone!

About Andrew Lang

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Summary

Deeds of Men

Introduction

To Colonel Ian Hamilton

Seekers for a City

The White Pacha

Midnight, January 25, 1886

Advance, Australia

Colonel Burnaby

Melville and Coghill

Rhodocleia

Ave

Clevedon Church

Twilight on Tweed

Metempsychosis

Lost in Hades

A Star in the Night

A Sunset on Yarrow

Another Way

Hesperothen

The seekers for Phaeacia

A Song of Phaeacia

The Departure From Phaeacia

A ballad of departure

They Hear the Sirens for the Second Time

Circe's Isle Revisited

The Limit of Lands

Verses

Martial in Town

April on Tweed

Tired of Towns

Scythe Song

Pen and Ink

A Dream

The Singing Rose

A Review in Rhyme

Colinette

A Sunset of Watteau

Nightingale Weather

Love and Wisdom

Good-bye

An Old Prayer

A la Belle Helene

Sylvie et Aurelie

A Lost Path

The Shade of Helen

Sonnets

She

Herodotus in Egypt

Gerard de Nerval

Ronsard

Love's Miracle

Dreams

Two Sonnets of the Sirens

Translations

Hymn to the Winds

Moonlight

The Grave and the Rose

A Vow to Heavenly Venus

Of His Lady's Old Age

Shadows of His Lady

April

An Old Tune

Old Loves

A Lady of High Degree

Iannoula

The Milk-White Doe

Heliodore

The Prophet

Lais

Clearista

The Fisherman's Tomb

Of His Death

Rhodope

To A Girl

To the Ships

A Late Convert

The Limit of Life

To Daniel Elzevir

The Last Chance

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