The chord, the harp's full chord is hushed, Whence music, like sweet waters, gushed But yesterday. And all the memories, all the dreams. They woke in floating by, The tender thoughts, th' Elysian gleams- Whence were they?—like the breath of flowers, A long, long journey must be ours, Ere this we know! HEMANS. A sound of music, such as they might deem I've heard thee wake with touch refined, CROLY. HENRY NEELE. Hast heard in dreams the wind harp's tone? Then in thy soul rejoice; No one is friendless and alone, Who hears its spirit-voice. ANONYMOUS. Anchor. According to VON GERSTENBERGK, who has culled his "Dream Lexicon" from the writings of APOMAZOR, ARTEMIDORUS, CARDANUS, and JOHN ENGELBRECHT;-to dream of an anchor denotes security. Others declare it to presage the fulfilment of long-deferred hopes, while a third authority asserts that it implies hindrance and delay. AT first all deadly shapes were driven And o'er the vast cope of bending Heaven She saw aloft in the morning air, The sky was blue as the summer sea, The air was calm as it could be, There was no sight nor sound of dread, Over the piny eastern hill. MARIANNE'S DREAM. SHELLEY. Angels. To dream of angels presages joy and prosperity with the fulfilment of our dearest hope. ACHMET SEIRIM, c. 10. PERCHANCE she knows it by her dreams, CHARLES LAMB. But may ye not unseen, around us hover, With gentle promptings and sweet influence yet; Though the fresh glory of those days be over, When midst the palm-trees, man your footsteps met? Are ye not near when faith and hope rise high, When love by strength o'ermasters agony? It is a beautiful, a blest belief HEMANS. That the beloved dead, grown angels, watch L. E. L. Light as the angel shapes that bless MOORE. Antiquities Curiofities. To dream of antique, rare, and costly objects, presages some happy event—the arrival of a dear friend, or a fortunate and unexpected discovery. NICHOLAUS VON KLINGELBERG. CASES of rare medallions, coins antique With fauns and dancing shepherds on their sides; In Pompeii, beneath its lava-tides: Clusters of arms, the spoil of ancient wars, Old scymitars of true Damascus brand, Short swords with basket-hilts to guard the hand, With crescent edges, shields with studded thorns, Thin-featured, stately dames with powdered locks, Stiff lords in wigs, and ruffles white as snow, STODDARD. If in his study he hath such a care --the pictures and the blazoned books, The glittering armour and the oaken screen, Grotesque with wry-faced purgatorial shapes. DONNE. ВОКЕВ. Animals. To dream of many kinds of animals herding or thronging together, denotes some strange and direful adventure. WHILE he thus spake, there came into my mind. Crale towards me, on which methought I trode: THE MIRROUR FOR MAGISTRATES. |