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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LEFT IN LIFE: 2, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poet's Biography
First Line: It is a dream. What then? Are dreams untrue?
Last Line: Pleased with the folly of thy straining hands.
Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Love - Complaints; Passion; Solitude; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness
First Line: It is a dream. What then? Are dreams untrue?
Last Line: Pleased with the folly of thy straining hands.
Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Love - Complaints; Passion; Solitude; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness
IT is a dream. What then? Are dreams untrue?
Dreams were our angels when I walked by you.
It is a dream! But this is you, I know.
O Love, Love, Love, how could you leave me so?
A dream! But may I never lift my face
From this undying passion of embrace!
Look how my robes are rended and unstarred.
Yea! I am bleeding, trodden down, and marred.
For since you went and left me all alone,
Not one of all the world but casts a stone.
But fast my beauty flowers beneath this rain
Of tender tears. I am a queen again.
Awake, awake! The great Dream-Jester stands,
Pleased with the folly of thy straining hands.
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