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
 | 1877
...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
...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
...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
...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 - 676 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
...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... | |
 | 1870 - 1 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... | |
 | Literature, Medieval - 1871
...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 - 1871
...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 - Electronic book - 1873 - 134 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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