Sleeping Beauty
by Edward Coley Burne-Jones

Below are illustrations by Edward Coley Burne-Jones for Sleeping Beauty. Click on the image to view a larger version.

Briar Rose Series
Verse by William Morris

The Briar Wood
The fateful slumber floats and flows
About the tangle of the rose.
But lo the fated hand and heart
To rend the slumberous curse apart.

The Council Chamber
The threat of war, the hope of peace
The Kingdom's peril and increase.
Sleep on, and bide the latter day
When fate shall take her chains away.

The Garden Court
The maiden pleasance of the land
Knoweth no stir of voice or hand,
No cup the sleeping waters fill,
The restless shuttle lieth still.

The Rose Bower
Here lies the hoarded love the key
To all the treasure that shall be.
Come, fated hand, the gift to take
And smite the sleeping world awake.

Sleeping Beauty
Not Part of the Briar Rose Series