by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
The hope I dreamed of was a dream
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Language: English
Our translations: CHI
The hope I dreamed of was a dream, Was but a dream; and now I wake, Exceeding comfortless, and worn, and old, For a dream's sake. I hang my harp upon a tree, A weeping willow in a lake; I hang my silent harp there, wrung and snapt For a dream's sake. Lie still, lie still, my breaking heart; My silent heart, lie still and break: Life, and the world, and mine own self, are changed For a dream's sake.
C. Ives sets stanzas 1, 3:2-4
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- by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830 - 1894), "Mirage", appears in Goblin Market and other Poems, first published 1862 [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
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