Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A DREAM, by ALICE CARY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed I had a plot of ground / once when I chanced asleep to drop Last Line: Has bloomed the other side, I said. Subject(s): Dreams; Angels | ||||||||
I DREAMED I had a plot of ground, Once when I chanced asleep to drop, And that a green hedge fenced it round, Cloudy with roses at the top. I saw a hundred mornings rise, -- So far a little dream may reach, -- And spring with summer in her eyes Making the chiefest charm of each. A thousand vines were climbing o'er The hedge, I thought, but as I tried To pull them down, for evermore The flowers dropt off the other side! Waking, I said, these things are signs Sent to instruct us that 't is ours Duly to keep and dress our vines, -- Waiting in patience for the flowers. And when the angel feared of all Across my hearth its shadow spread, The rose that climbed my garden wall Has bloomed the other side, I said. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MINISTERING ANGELS by EDMUND JOHN ARMSTRONG ST. PETER AND THE ANGEL by DENISE LEVERTOV SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#3): 2. ANGEL ... by MARVIN BELL FOUNTAIN IN AVIGNON by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR THE FEATHER AT BREENDONCK by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR BROTHERS: 3. AS FOR MYSELF by LUCILLE CLIFTON THE BIRTH ANGELS by STEPHEN DOBYNS A SPINSTER'S STINT by ALICE CARY |
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