. Poetry for children . QUEEN ORIANASDREAM. IV ON a bank with roses shaded,Whose sweet scent the violets aidedViolets whose breath aloneYields but feeble smell or none,(Sweeter bed Jove neer reposed onWhen his eyes Olympus closed on,)While oerhead six slaves did holdCanopy of cloth o* gold,And two more did music keepWhich might Juno lull to sleep,Oriana who was queenTo the mighty Tamerlane,That was lord of all the landBetween Thrace and Samarcand,While the noon-tide fervour beamd,Musd herself to sleep, and dreamd. Thus far, in magnific strain,A young poet soothed his vein, 22 POETRY FOR CHILDR
. Poetry for children . QUEEN ORIANASDREAM. IV ON a bank with roses shaded,Whose sweet scent the violets aidedViolets whose breath aloneYields but feeble smell or none,(Sweeter bed Jove neer reposed onWhen his eyes Olympus closed on,)While oerhead six slaves did holdCanopy of cloth o* gold,And two more did music keepWhich might Juno lull to sleep,Oriana who was queenTo the mighty Tamerlane,That was lord of all the landBetween Thrace and Samarcand,While the noon-tide fervour beamd,Musd herself to sleep, and dreamd. Thus far, in magnific strain,A young poet soothed his vein, 22 POETRY FOR CHILDREN But he had nor prose nor numbersTo express a princess slumbers.—Youthful Richard had strange fancies,Was deep versed in old romances,And could talk whole hours uponThe great Cham and Prester John,—Tell the field in which the SophiFrom the Tartar won a trophy—What he read with such delight ofThought he could as easily write of;But his over-young inventionKept not pace with brave suns did rise and set,And he could n
Size: 1988px × 1257px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bo, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, bookidpoetryforchildre00lamb
