by William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)
Her dream
Language: English
I dreamed as in my bed I lay, All night's fathomless wisdom come, That I had shorn my locks away And laid them on Love's lettered tomb: But something bore them out of sight In a great tumult of the air, And after nailed upon the night Berenice's burning hair.
Text Authorship:
- by William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939), "Her dream", appears in The Winding Stair, first published 1929 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Douglas Young (b. 1947), "Her dream", 1970-3 [soprano, flute, clarinet, and viola], from Realities [text not verified]
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This text was added to the website: 2009-01-19
Line count: 8
Word count: 50