Where sunless rivers weep Their waves into the deep, She sleeps a charmed 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. Rest, rest, for evermore Upon a mossy shore; Rest, rest at the heart's core Till time shall cease: Sleep that no pain shall wake; Night that no morn shall break Till joy shall overtake Her perfect peace.
Two Songs
Song Cycle by Alexander von Fielitz (1860 - 1930)
?. Dream Land  [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
Authorship:
- by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894), as Ellen Alleyn, "Dream Land"
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First published in Germ, January 1850.Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
?. An end  [sung text not yet checked]
Language: English
Love, strong as Death, is dead. Come, let us make his bed Among the dying flowers: A green turf at his head; And a stone at his feet, Whereon we may sit In the quiet evening hours. He was born in the spring, And died before the harvesting: On the last warm summer day He left us; he would not stay For autumn twilight cold and grey. Sit we by his grave, and sing He is gone away. To few chords and sad and low Sing we so: Be our eyes fixed on the grass Shadow-veiled as the years pass, While we think of all that was In the long ago.
Authorship:
- by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894), as Ellen Alleyn, "An end"
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First published in The Germ, January 1850Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
Total word count: 258