We dreamers thought that we had died too soon -- So when they buried us, we rose again To dive from pensive peaks beyond the moon, And swim upon the crest of clouds, and then We painted lovely sunsets in our flight -- Across the sky with sweeping strokes we fled -- Our failing breath we left to perfume night -- Our restless souls still drove us on -- though dead. Wraith-like, our specters streaked the Milky-Way. We raced a shooting star across the sky; But fled before the fevered pulse of day -- Content at last to rest and sleep and die! (They wrote "Disturb not those who died in vain" -- We smile, we dead, and whisper with the rain). | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...OUTWARD BOUND by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH DEATH IN THE KITCHEN by THOMAS HOOD SUMMER (2) by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI TO THE ROSE UPON THE ROOD OF TIME by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS AS NIGHT COMES by CHARLES G. ADAMS BUILDING BLOCKS by VIRGINIA A. ALLIN THE LAY OF ST. CUTHBERT; OR THE DEVIL'S DINNER-PARTY by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM |