| Hunt and Lee, comps. The Book of the Sonnet. 1867. | | | | I. One’s Own Mood Reflected in a Day-dream | | By William Allingham (1824–1889) |
| | (“On the Sunny Shore”)
CHECKERED 1 with woven shadows as I lay | |
| 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 | 5 |
| 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, | 10 |
| 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. | |
| | | Note 1. “The Music-Master, a Love Story; and Two Series of Day and Night Songs. 1855.” [back] | | |
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