 Dreamer of dreams, born out of my due time, Why should I strive to set the crooked straight ? Let it suffice me that my murmuring rhyme Beats with light wing against the ivory gate, Telling a tale not too importunate To those who in the sleepy region...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 4551878Full view - About this book
 | England - 1877 - 798 pages
...of English political life, and turned from the subject, as he had often done before, muttering — "Dreamer of dreams born out of my due time ! Why should I strive to set the crooked straight ? " In all his musings of to-day, with the ostensible purpose above recorded, Cosmo was now and then... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1891 - 672 pages
...prettily in the Apology to the ' Earthly Paradise ' of his dreams coming through the " ivory gate ":— Dreamer of dreams, born out of my due time, Why should I strive to Bet the crooked straight ? Let it suffice me that my murmuring rhyme Beat with light wing against the... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - Humanities - 1897 - 346 pages
...can ne'er be dead, Or long time take their memory quite away, From us poor singers of an empty day. Dreamer of dreams, born out of my due time, Why should I strive to set the crooked straight? Let it suffice me that my murmuring rhyme, Beats with light wing against the ivory gate. Telling a... | |
 | William Morris - Literature, Medieval - 1868 - 700 pages
...ne'er be dead, Or long time take their memory quite away • From us poor singers of an empty day. Dreamer of dreams, born out of my due time, Why should I strive to set the crooked straight 1 Let it suffice me that my murmuring rhyme Beats with light wing against the ivory gate, Telling a... | |
 | William Morris - Literature, Medieval - 1868 - 698 pages
...long time take their memory quite away From us poor singers of an empty day. Dreamer of dreams, lorn out of my due time, Why should I strive to set the crooked straight '! Let it suffice me that my murmuring rhyme Beats with light wing against the ivory gate. Telling... | |
 | William Morris - Literature, Medieval - 1869 - 708 pages
...can ne'er be dead, Or long time fake their memory quite away From us poor singers of an empty day. Dreamer of dreams, born out of my due time, Why should I strive to set tJie crooked straight ? Let it suffice me that my murmuring rhyme Beats with light wing against the... | |
 | William Morris - 1870 - 196 pages
...can ne'er be dead, Or long time take their memory quite away From us poor singers of an empty day. Dreamer of dreams, born out of my due time, Why should I strive to set the crooked straight? Let it suffice me that my murmuring rhyme THE ENGLISH PRESS. 1 1 Beats with light wing against the... | |
 | William Morris - Literature, Medieval - 1871 - 442 pages
...melody he leaves to others the " slaying of monsters," the active or monil function of the poet, — " Dreamer of dreams, born out of my due time, Why should I strive to set the crooked straight?" — and claims for himself, as '' the idle singer of an empty day," the work of renewing for us some of the... | |
 | William Morris - Literature, Medieval - 1871 - 446 pages
...not, can nJer be dead, Or long time take their memory quite away From us poor singers of an empty day. Dreamer of dreams, born out of my due time, Why should I strive to set the crooked straight ? Let it suffice me that my murmuring rhyme Beats with light wing against the ivory gate, Telling a... | |
 | William Morris - English drama - 1873 - 192 pages
...can ne'er be dead, Or long time take their memory quite away From us poor singers of an empty day. Dreamer of dreams, born out of my due time, Why should I strive to set the crooked straight? Let it suffice me that my murmuring rhyme THE ENGLISH PRESS. II Beats with light wing- against the... | |
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