Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DREAMS, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poet's Biography First Line: Most dreams are like the tide upon the beach Last Line: And prophecies no daylight can impeach! Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares | ||||||||
Most dreams are like the tide upon the beach Rolling the baseless pebbles, till their place Is changed and changed again, beyond the reach Of the best waking memory to retrace The loose and helpless motion; these, and those That stand like rocks, engraved with name and date, And cognizable words of coming fate, What mean they? who among our schoolmen knows? What means this double power to rave and teach? This common fund of toys and verities? Of dooming oracles and foolish cries? Now kept apart, now blending each with each - Abortive interests, and unreal ties, And prophecies no daylight can impeach! | 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 HER FIRST-BORN by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER |
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