The Sleeping Beauty/Reverie [DE LA MARE poems set to music]
Channel: tobydarling
Date: 2022-05-04

The Sleeping Beauty   By Walter De La Mare 

Em D A Em
the scent of bramble sweets the air,
G Am Em
        Amid her folded sheets she lies,
C G Am Em
     The gold of evening in her hair,
D C Em
        The blue of morn shut in her eyes.


G D C G
How many a changing moon hath lit
B7
        The unchanging roses of her face!
C G D C
     Her mirror ever broods on it
Em C D
        In silver stillness of the days.

     Oft flits the moth on filmy wings
        Into his solitary lair;
     Shrill evensong the cricket sings
        From some still shadow in her hair.

     In heat, in snow, in wind, in flood,
        She sleeps in lovely loneliness,
     Half folded like an April bud
Em C Em
        On winter-haunted trees.

Reverie    By Walter De La Mare 

Em
When slim Sophia mounts her horse
Am
         And paces down the avenue,
Em
     It seems an inward melody
Am
            She paces to.

     F C F C
Each narrow hoof is lifted high
F C E7
        Beneath the dark enclust'ring pines,
Am G F C
     A silver ray within his bit
E7
         And bridle shines.

     His eye burns deep, his tail is arched,
        And streams upon the shadowy air,
     The daylight sleeks his jetty flanks,
         His mistress' hair.

     Her habit flows in darkness down,
        Upon the stirrup rests her foot,
     Her brow is lifted, as if earth
         She heeded not.

     Em
'Tis silent in the avenue,
A* F#m
        The sombre pines are mute of song,
Em
     The blue is dark, there moves no breeze
A** F#m
         The boughs among.

     When slim Sophia mounts her horse
        And paces down the avenue,
     It seems an inward melody
         She paces to.

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