United States or New Caledonia ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
I would not rouse her, 'twas a blessed thing to sleep and forget; but I dared not sleep, for I knew not what would be the horror of my waking. With my cheek pressed close against the door I waited a moment longer. Perhaps only those planks intervened 'twixt me and my life's tragedy! I laid my hand upon the latch. I feared to know the truth, and yet, if I did not hear it, I must die of dread.
The poet trembled in terror at the light within. "She is . . . ?" "Yes, Diane; Diane, whose name I murmur in my dreams, waking or sleeping." "She?" in half a whisper. "Her name?" "Her name? No! I know her as a mystery; as Tantalus thirsting for the fruit which hangs ever beyond the reach, I know her; as a woman who is not what she seems, always masked, with or without the cambric.
"Suppose," said Lestrange, "suppose those children had been brought up face to face with Nature " "Yes?" "Living that free life " "Yes?" "Waking up under the stars" Lestrange was speaking with his eyes fixed, as if upon something very far away "going to sleep as the sun sets, feeling the air fresh, like this which blows upon us, all around them.
But Europa leaped forth from her strown bed in terror, with beating heart, in such clear vision had she beheld the dream. Then she sat upon her bed, and long was silent, still beholding the two women, albeit with waking eyes; and at last the maiden raised her timorous voice 'Who of the gods of heaven has sent forth to me these phantoms?
In her recollection of that fearful interview with Mr Bradshaw, which haunted her yet, sleeping or waking, she was painfully conscious that she had not thanked Jemima for her generous, loving advocacy; it had passed unregarded at the time in intensity of agony but now she recollected that by no word, or tone, or touch, had she given any sign of gratitude.
I thought the melody was such that when once heard it could never be forgotten. When I woke it still rang in my ears, but now I can no more recall it. How is it we never know such delight in waking hours? Is that some of the joy we are to feel in Heaven, the music we are to hear? And yet it can be heard in this life if one only knew where to go and listen.
He saw these creatures, not only among sleeping men but waking also, active in pursuits irreconcilable with one another, and possessing or assuming natures the most opposite. He saw one buckling on innumerable wings to increase his speed; another loading himself with chains and weights, to retard his.
Brethren, see to it that that awaking be for you the beholding of what you have loved, the finding, in the sober certainty of waking bliss, of all the objects which have been your visions of delight in the sleep of earth. This life of ours hides more than it reveals. The day shows the sky as solitary but for wandering clouds that cover its blue emptiness.
After this it became quite dark, and he continued to promenade the deck, and had settled into a drowsy state, when as in a dream he thought he heard voices all round his ship. Waking up, he ran to the side of the ship, saw something struggling in the water, and heard clearly cries for help.
But there was a thing in her mind and 'twas in her thought every day of which, though she was within his sight almost every waking hour and her head lay upon the pillow by his own, when she slept, he knew nothing.
Word Of The Day