I dreamed - methought I stood upon a strand Unblest with day for ages; and despair Had seized me, but for cooling airs that fann'd My forehead, and a voice that said 'Prepare!' Anon I felt a dawning was at hand; A planet rose, whose light no cloud could mar, And made thro' all the landscape near and far, A wild half-morning for that dreary land; I saw her seas come washing to the shore In sheets of gleaming ripples, wide and fair; I saw her goodly rivers brimming o'er, And from their fruitful shallows looked the star; And all seem'd kiss'd with star-light! till the beam Of sunrise broke and yet fulfill'd my dream. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: A BEAUTIFUL NIGHT by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES ONE WAY OF LOVE by ROBERT BROWNING THE PROTESTATION by THOMAS CAREW THE AMERICAN FLAG by JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE TO LUCASTA, [ON] GOING TO THE WARS by RICHARD LOVELACE |