Hunt and Lee, comps. The Book of the Sonnet. 1867.
I. Ones Own Mood Reflected in a Day-dreamWilliam Allingham (18241889)
(“On the Sunny Shore”)
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Among the grass, blinking the watery gleam,
I saw an Echo-Spirit in his bay
Most idly floating in the noontide beam.
Slow heaved his filmy skiff, and fell, with sway
Of ocean’s giant pulsing; and the Dream,
Buoyed like the young moon on a level stream
Of greenish vapor at decline of day,
Swam airily, watching the distant flocks
Of sea-gulls, whilst a foot, in careless sweep,
Touched the clear-trembling cool with tiny shocks
Faint-circling; till at last he dropped asleep,
Lulled by the hush-song of the glittering deep,
Lap-lapping drowsily the heated rocks.