Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN DREAMS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poet's Biography First Line: My love, my love, when falls the summer rain Last Line: And bind with thee the ripe and shining sheaves. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Summer; Nightmares | ||||||||
MY love, my love, when falls the summer rain With soothing music on the midnight eaves, I dream a dream of mingled bliss and pain: Deep in our heart-fields do I rove again, And bind with thee the ripe and shining sheaves. O Land of Joy! the purple mountains flinging Rich bars of shade across our sunny ease, The spicy blooms, the groves with bird-notes ringing, And, sweet through all, the wind a carol singing Of fairer morns to rise o'er rosy seas. Love's harvest clime, alas! is ours no more! For other hearts is heaped the golden grain! We may not glean where glad we reapt before, Nor sing the songs, nor wear the smiles we wore, Nor hear the wind blow sweet across the plain. Yet still, my love, when fall the summer showers With soothing music on the midnight eaves, I dream a dream that all my life o'erpowers: Blithe in our heart-fields do I pluck the flowers, And bind with thee the ripe and shining sheaves. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...VARIATIONS: 14 by CONRAD AIKEN VARIATIONS: 18 by CONRAD AIKEN LIVE IT THROUGH by DAVID IGNATOW A DREAM OF GAMES by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN THE DREAM OF WAKING by RANDALL JARRELL APOLOGY FOR BAD DREAMS by ROBINSON JEFFERS GIVE YOUR WISH LIGHT by ROBINSON JEFFERS COLUMBUS DYING [MAY 20, 1506] by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR SA-CA-GA-WE-A; THE INDIAN GIRL WHO GUIDED LEWIS AND CLARK by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR |
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