GSV2-smith-dream – Yellow Nineties 2.0

This illustration accompanies a poem by the artist. It’s centered above the poem, occupying approximately two-thirds of the page. The full-colour image is bordered with a thick black rectangular frame and is displayed in portrait orientation. On the left side of the image, nine yellow-robed figures float into the frame, facing right. The figures carry red hearts on delicate chains, and wear golden headdresses adorned with red apples and roses. Some of their robes are decorated with red roses with green leaves. The robed figures float above a purple ground towards the right foreground of the image, where white lilies grow in front of an effigy of two figures, which have only their feet and legs visible. Behind is a large grey church with a blue door. In the background is a green hill and a yellow sky, the same colour as the robed figures. In the bottom left corner, the artist’s monogram is visible.

Once, in a dream, I saw a great church with a long narrow door,
and behind it rose a green hill. There was a garden on the top with
arches cut in box. The rooks cawed overhead. As I walked at the
foot of the hill I came to the church-yard, where many lilies grew; and
close by the church door was a sandstone tomb with two figures carved
on it. A foot of one of them began to wag.

Suddenly on the left there was a sound of solemn music—and many
spirits floated by. Mild faces had they; and every one carried a red
heart from which dropped a pearl—hung by a golden chain.

Then passing by they disappeared into the long blue door of the
church.

P.C.S.

MLA citation:

Smith, Pamela Colman. Untitled. [“Once in a Dream”], illustrated by Pamela Colman Smith. The Green Sheaf, No. 2, 1903, p. 5. Green Sheaf Digital Edition, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, Yellow Nineties 2.0, Toronto Metropolitan University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2022. https://1890s.ca/GSV2-smith-dream/ >

magazine_texts The Green Sheaf 2 Untitled [“Once in a Dream”] Pamela Colman Smith 1903 Fiction