Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, INSIDE EYES, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY


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First Line: When I am fast asleep at night
Last Line: That waking up must be a dream!
Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Sleep; Childhood; Nightmares


When I am fast asleep at night
And both my eyes are shut up tight,
I have two inside eyes which see
Another world made just for me!

All the fine things I long to do,
And am not ever able to,
Are possible and easy, quite,
In this strange world I see at night—

Here there are doors that never lock,
And toys that run about and talk,
And roads that wind up like a stair
To where there's nothing but the air!

Here Rover, who's a dog by day,
Is changed in such a jolly way
Into a person—maybe he
Has inside eyes the same as me?

Next day we never say a word
About the things we've seen and heard,
But Rover winks at me and I
Wink back at him—and both know why!

Nurse won't believe that I can fly—
She says I must not even try—
But Rover knows I rise with ease
Above the tallest poplar trees.

Light as a cloud I float about
And other little clouds come out
To play with me—and when I fall
I do not bump my head at all.

One night the queerest wood I found
Where dancing trees went circling round,
And when they saw that I was me
They bowed as friendly as could be—

Oh, it is full of fine surprise
This land I see with inside eyes,
And everything's so bright—'twould seem
That waking up must be a dream!





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