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DREAMS by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS

Poet Analysis

First Line: I DREAM OF HER THE WHOLE NIGHT LONG
Last Line: THE PILLOWS WET WITH TEARS.
Subject(s): DREAMS; LOVE - UNREQUITED; NIGHTMARES;

I dream of her the whole night long,
The pillows with my tears are wet.
I wake, I seek amid the throng
The courage to forget.

Yet still, as night comes round, I dread,
With unavailing fears,
The dawn that finds, beneath my head,
The pillows wet with tears.



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