There is a twofold Silence-sea and shore- Render him terrorless: his name's "No More." Bring thee to meet his shadow (nameless elf, A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM. TAKE this kiss upon the brow! In a night, or in a day, away Is it therefore the less gone ? THE CITY IN THE SEA. Lo! Death has reared himself a throne In a strange city lying alone Far down within the dim West, Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best Have gone to their eternal rest. The melancholy waters lie. No rays from the holy heaven come down Whose wreathèd friezes intertwine The melancholy waters lie. So blend the turrets and shadows there While from a proud tower in the town There open fanes and gaping graves Along that wilderness of glass- But lo, a stir is in the air! The wave-there is a movement there! DREAM-LAND. By a route obscure and lonely, Bottomless vales and boundless floods, Their lone waters-lone and dead,- With the snows of the lolling lily. By the lakes that thus outspread Where dwell the Ghouls,- For the heart whose woes are legion But the traveller, travelling through it, By a route obscure and lonely, |