The Sleeping Beauty Lyrics

Year after year unto her feet

She lying on her couch alone

Across the purpled coverlet

The maiden's jet-black hair has grown

On either side her tranced form

Forth streaming from a braid of pearl

The slumbrous light is rich and warm

And moves not on the rounded curl

The silk star-broidered coverlid

Unto her limbs itself doth mould

Languidly ever and amid

Her full black ringlets downward rolled

Glows forth each softly-shadowed arm

With bracelets of the diamond bright

Her constant beauty doth inform

Stillness with love and day with light

She sleeps her breathings are not heard

In palace chambers far apart

The fragrant tresses are not stirred

That lie upon her charmed heart

She sleeps on either hand upswells

The gold-fringed pillow lightly pressed

She sleeps nor dreams but ever dwells

A perfect form in perfect rest

She sleeps her breathings are not heard

In palace chambers far apart

The fragrant tresses are not stirred

That lie upon her charmed heart

She sleeps on either hand upswells

The gold-fringed pillow lightly pressed

She sleeps nor dreams but ever dwells

A perfect form in perfect rest

She sleeps her breathings are not heard

In palace chambers far apart

The fragrant tresses are not stirred

That lie upon her charmed heart

She sleeps on either hand upswells

The gold-fringed pillow lightly pressed

She sleeps nor dreams but ever dwells

A perfect form in perfect rest

She sleeps nor dreams but ever dwells

A perfect form in perfect rest