poppied

Through a haze of poppied sleep, he saw a soft pink face leaning over him.

Behind us our trail was marked by deep, black pits in the forest's green, clean cut and great as the Mark upon the poppied valley.

O for Medea with her poppied spell!

For within the ring, close to the clustering globes, was a miniature replica of the giant track in the poppied valley!

Low pitched, vibrant, continuous, it crept intothe ears, and seemed to pour through them along everynerve, touching them, caressing them with the soft fingersof the very soul of poppied sleep.

Zuleikha, on whose marble knees My bearded head is lazily lain, Shows like some stirring of the breeze Fluctuant in the poppied grain, No more at all: the vulgar sense is slain.

Then one night the reddened and fattened Romnod snorted heavily amidst the poppied silks of his banquet-couch and died writhing, whilst Iranon, pale and slender, sang to himself in a far corner.

Awake, my sleeper, to the sun, A worker in the morning town, And leave the poppied pickthank where he lies; The fences of the light are down, All but the briskest riders thrown And worlds hang on the trees.

Or if I find thee not, then I shall sink in peace down the poppied ways of Sleep: and for me the breast of Night, whereon I shall be softly cradled, will yet seem thy bosom, Antony!

Small like these, or - or - Quick on the screen of my mind flashed two pictures, side by side - the little four-rayed print in the great dust of the crumbling ruin and its colossal twin on the breast of the poppied valley.

Oh, never can I forget the look in the eyes of that fallen prince, that forsworn priest, that discrowned Pharaoh, when, lost in the poppied draught, I saw him sink into a shameful sleep whence he might no more wake with honour!

A small rain filled the incommense thoroughfares of night but still among the guttering buggies stilled tangents of smoke and rib-roofed skeletombs a guitar string or flute fought loneliness with loneliness and a poppied light or naked carbulb gave the flowerdpeople nightpower.