English Poetry. Christina Georgina Rossetti. A Dream. Кристина Джорджина Россетти.

Christina Georgina Rossetti (Кристина Джорджина Россетти)

A Dream

Once in a dream (for once I dreamed of you)
We stood together in an open field;
Above our heads two swift-winged pigeons wheeled,
Sporting at ease and courting full in view.
When loftier still a broadening darkness flew,
Down-swooping, and a ravenous hawk revealed;
Too weak to fight, too fond to fly, they yield;
So farewell life and love and pleasures new.
Then as their plumes fell fluttering to the ground,
Their snow-white plumage flecked with crimson drops,
I wept, and thought I turned towards you to weep:
But you were gone; while rustling hedgerow tops
Bent in a wind which bore to me a sound
Of far-off piteous bleat of lambs and sheep. 

Christina Georgina Rossetti’s other poems:

1. A Testimony
2. Repining
3. Maiden May
4. Twice
5. The Convent Threshold

Poems of other poets with the same name (Стихотворения других поэтов с таким же названием):

William Allingham (Вильям Аллингам) A Dream (“I heard the dogs howl in the moonlight night”)

Matthew Arnold (Мэтью Арнольд) A Dream (“Was it a dream? We sail’d, I thought we sail’d”)

Robert Burns (Роберт Бернс) A Dream (“Guid-Mornin’ to our Majesty!”) 1786

Coventry Patmore (Ковентри Патмор (Пэтмор)) A Dream (“Amid the mystic fields of Love”)

Bernard Barton (Бернард Бартон) A Dream (“A DREAM came lately in the hours”)

Thomas Parnell (Томас Парнелл) A Dream (“Just when ye dead of night began to fail”)

Stephen Phillips (Стивен Филлипс) A Dream (“MY dead love came to me, and said”)

Edgar Poe (Эдгар По) A Dream (“In visions of the dark night”)

Alice Cary (Элис Кэри) A Dream (“I DREAMED I had a plot of ground”)

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