Nature
The Enchanted Valley
From A Celtic Psaltery (1917)
Nature
I will go where lilies blow
Beside the flow of languid streams,
Within that vale of opal glow,
Where bright-winged dreams flutter to and fro,
Fain am I its magic peace to know.
Beware! beware of that valley fair!
All dwellers there to phantoms turn,
For joys and griefs they have none to share,
Tho' ever they yearn life's burdens to bear,
Ah! of that valley beware, beware!
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Codex Note
To an Irish air of the same name.
Cite this poem
MLA
Graves, Alfred Perceval. “The Enchanted Valley.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/graves_ap/4/.
Chicago
Graves, Alfred Perceval. “The Enchanted Valley.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/graves_ap/4/.
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