I dreamt wild dreams, dreams without fear <br />Where water wild and green <br />Upon the white jagged cliffs <br />Seethed in their rage and tore <br />Whole chunks of rocks grey raw and white. <br /> <br />How high the cliffs, how giddying <br />They were Dover-like chalky-white and tall <br />Rising from the green sea, the raging sea. <br /> <br />And high above the stormy petrel sailed <br />High, high and traveling <br />Full many kilometers in few lapping <br />How eerie its cry, how hideous <br />It rang over that frozen sea: <br />More frozen ‘twas than the green frozen sea. <br /> <br />How wild the wind and uncontrolled <br />How high and white the waves <br />Here, there, to west, to east, to everywhere <br />The cold sweat still I feel around me creep: <br />And rang all hideous the hideous cry <br />Of the stormy petrel. <br /> <br />Now ‘twas a rage, then whisper, then a sigh. <br /> <br />And then the thunder rolled <br />Its fingers tall irregular <br />Sowed omen and ill in the dark sky <br />That cleft its lips with every thunder-peal <br />With ever thunder-clap <br />Over that tempest green. <br /> <br />How high, how bleak, the stormy petrel flew <br />How dank the rain that fall and cold: <br />How more dark grew the dusk, more dark: <br />How high and white the waves <br />Here, there, to west, to east, to everywhere <br />The cold sweat still I feel around me creep: <br />And rang all hideous the hideous cry <br />Of the stormy petrel.<br /><br />Emmanuel George Cefai<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-dreamt-wild-dreams-dreams-without-fear/
