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CALIBAN [ON THE ISLAND], FR. THE TEMPEST by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Poet Analysis

First Line: BE NOT AFEARD: THE ISLE IS FULL OF NOISE
Last Line: I CRIED TO DREAM AGAIN.
Subject(s): DREAMS; SOUND; NIGHTMARES;

Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices
That, if I then had waked after long sleep,
Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming,
The clouds methought would open and show riches
Ready to drop upon me, that, when I waked,
I cried to dream again.



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