The Book Of Wonder - 9781544684345

Her father had been half centaur and half god; her mother was the child of a desert lion and that sphinx that watches the pyramids;-she was more mystical than Woman. Her beauty was as a dream, was as a song; the one dream of a lifetime dreamed on enchanted dews, the one song sung to some city by a deathless bird blown far from his native coasts by storm in Paradise. Dawn after dawn on mountains of romance or twilight after twilight could never equal her beauty; all the glow-worms had not the secret among them nor all the stars of night; poets had never sung it nor evening guessed its meaning; the morning envied it, it was hidden from lovers. She was unwed, unwooed

• | Author: Baron Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany|Edward John Moreton Drax
• | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Mar 25, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 64 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1544684347
• | ISBN-13: 9781544684345