1. waking

  • On Waking from a Dreamless Sleep

    I waked; the sun was in the sky,
      The face of heaven was fair;
    The silence all about me lay,
      Of morning in the air.

    I said, Where hast thou been, my soul,
      Since the moon set in the west?
    I know not where thy feet have trod,
      Nor what has been thy quest.

    Where wast thou when Orion past
      Below the dark-blue sea?...

    Annie Fields

  • Half-Waking

    I Thought it was the little bed
      I slept in long ago;
    A straight white curtain at the head,
      And two smooth knobs below.

    I thought I saw the nursery fire,
      And in a chair well-known
    My mother sat, and did not tire
      With reading all alone.

    If I should make the slightest sound
      To show that I ’m awake,
    She ’...

    William Allingham