Harp
A harp's sweet, sad strains often touch a beautiful thing edged with sorrow — a pleasing enterprise ending wistfully, or a too-trusting heart. The dream may ask where loveliness and melancholy mingle for you, whether you're placing your confidence or love too freely, and what tender, plaintive note is sounding beneath an apparent harmony.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for harp, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To hear the sad sweet strains of a harp, denotes the sad ending to what seems a pleasing and profitable enterprise.
To see a broken harp, betokens illness, or broken troth between lovers.
To play a harp yourself, signifies that your nature is too trusting, and you should be more careful in placing your confidence as well as love matters.
Fontaine, 1862
To dream you play upon the harp, indicates that you have some envious enemies who seek to injure you with slander. To dream you hear any person play upon the harp, is a sign that if you have sick friends they will recover. In love affairs this dream is very lucky.