Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A DREAM, by KILLANE O'BURK


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A DREAM, by                    
First Line: Amid night's life - suspending sleep
Last Line: And again to loneliness I yield.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


Amid night's life-suspending sleep
I found new life, and it so fair,
Gladly would I change knowing's deep
Drowning emptiness and dull despair.

I wandered in a roseate land
All colored by the lighter hues,
Where flowers sought the trailing hand
And birds sought to reach a heaven's blues.

Where blew naught but zephyrs warm
And gentle. The gale of unfulfilled desire
Raged not to rouse the tearing storm
Nor fan the flames of heart's hot fire.

What be folly to restrain in waking
Here had reason. No staying hand
Here check the sweetness of love's taking.
O could I dwell forever in that happy land!

For there I met not the weary powers
Nor haunting fears that ever fill
The joyless time between joy's fleeting hours
And even memory's pleasure kill.

I took the clinging hand of love
And strolled unchidden through
The fruitful garden, free to rove
Where'er I would, and whate'er I would, to do.

The promise that in love's eye
Lingered, the whispers that unborn
Were claimed by death in life here not belie
The parted lips so oft forsworn.

But alas, the chilling clasp I feel
Of cold reality, in waking's gathering field
Love's dream fled conscience's despotic heel,
And again to loneliness I yield.





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