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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: NIGHTMARES Matches Found: 1262 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BACCHANALIAN SONG, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sing! - who sings Last Line: And the best of all good company. Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller Subject(s): Dreams; Drinks & Drinking; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Wine A BALLAD OF DREAMLAND, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hid my heart in a nest of roses Last Line: Only the song of a secret bird. Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Roses; Sleep; Nightmares A BALLAD OF LIFE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I found in dreams a place of wind and flowers Last Line: Ballad, and on thy mouth. Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Life; Nightmares A BIRTH-SONG, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the dark sweet sleep Last Line: Guard and be gracious to the fair-named flower. Subject(s): Birth; Dreams; Sleep; Child Birth; Midwifery; Nightmares A BOOK OF DREAMS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lay and dreamed. The master came Last Line: And all but me asleep! Subject(s): Birds; Children; Churches; Crucifixion; Death; Desolation; Despair; Dreams; Fathers; Flowers; God; Hope; Lilies; Memory; Prodigal Son; Sleep; Swans; Youth; Childhood; Cathedrals; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The; Nightmares; Optimism A BOOK SAID DREAM AND I DO, by BARBARA RAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There were feathers and the light that passed through feathers Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares A BURDEN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They lie at rest asleep and dead Last Line: Hallelujah, amen. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): My Old Friends Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Friendship; Life; Love; Dead, The; Nightmares A CASTLE IN THE AIR, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I built myself a castle Last Line: Only -- I looked beyond. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Castles; Dreams; Grief; Hope; Youth; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism A CHILD TASTES THE LOVELINESS OF LIFE AND FASHIONS A NEW DREAM, by GRACE STONE COATES Poem Text First Line: When I am grown I shall eat citron Last Line: Appraising a pale chartreuse!) Subject(s): Dreams; Growth; Life; Nightmares A COURT-MINSTREL, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: I dreamed I was a virginal Last Line: Tis time I was a-musicking! Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Love; Minstrels; Nightmares A CUP OF TEA, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have sipped, with drooping lashes Last Line: Fragrant laurel round its rim. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Food & Eating; Mythology; Tea; Vision; Nightmares A DAY DREAM, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My eyes make pictures, when they are shut Last Line: Murmur it to yourselves, ye two beloved women! Variant Title(s): Eye Subject(s): Dreams; Language; Nightmares; Words; Vocabulary A DAY-DREAM, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A day-dream by the dark-blue deep Last Line: The waves run murmuring up the beach. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares A DAY-DREAMER, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since coming from the land of dreams is lonely Last Line: Wherein who loveth dreams shall have his fill. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Day; Dreams; Nightmares A DEAD CALM AND MIST (TOWARDS EVENING), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The slow heave of the sleeping sea Last Line: Save just a dream of amethyst. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Evening; Sea; Wind; Nightmares; Sunset; Twilight; Ocean A DEAL IN REAL ESTATE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Barendt cuyler, indian trader Last Line: "brother -- let us dream no more!" Subject(s): Dreams; Native Americans; New York City - Dutch Period; Smoking; Nightmares; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes A DREAM, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the dogs howl in the moonlight night Last Line: I strive to recall it if I may. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares A DREAM, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Was it a dream? We sailed, I thought we sailed Last Line: Bristled with cities, us the sea receiv'd. Subject(s): Dreams; Travel; Nightmares; Journeys; Trips A DREAM, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One night, with sleep my senses being opprest Last Line: I'll strive to chase the fancy from my mind. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares A DREAM, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art not one of the living now Last Line: And love, in some such dream as this! Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares A DREAM, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In dreams I met my love, he stood alone Last Line: Shivering in ecstasy, fell on his breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares A DREAM, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unriddle this. Last night my dream Last Line: Batters to win the desperate sky. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares A DREAM, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed / a dream of you Last Line: "always a dream." Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Lips; Love; Nightmares A DREAM, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had come in front of a building and knew Last Line: A batch of those french poets.' Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares A DREAM, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had a dream - a strange, wild dream Last Line: "shall open in the morning beam." Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares A DREAM, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Guid-mornin' to our majesty Last Line: Fu' clean that day. Subject(s): Dreams; Poetry & Poets; Nightmares A DREAM, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well may sleep present us fictions Last Line: "guardian spirit, steer me on!" Subject(s): Dreams; Immortality; Nightmares A DREAM, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: And at night we'd find a town Last Line: Coming, if she's sweet and solemn with grey eyes and hair of jet! Subject(s): Dreams; Solitude; Nightmares; Loneliness A DREAM, by IRENE T. DAGUE Poem Text First Line: I fain would build a little house Last Line: And find a welcome there. Subject(s): Dreams; Home; Nightmares A DREAM, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Methought, (unwitting how the place I gained) Last Line: It plunged extinguished in the chaotic gulf! Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares A DREAM, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: I met her in the leafy woods Last Line: I woke, and lay alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Dreams; Passion; Nightmares A DREAM, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: I dreamed old winter donned his trailing mantle Last Line: Tis thus I dreamed it in an idle hour. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares A DREAM, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas night - the globe was folded up Last Line: "behold the fighting smith!" Subject(s): Dreams; Ireland; Nightmares; Irish A DREAM, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I thought this heart consuming lay Last Line: And mingled into one! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares A DREAM, by EDWARD MOXON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Methought my love was dead. Oh, 'twas a night Last Line: To find my sorrow but a lover's dream. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares A DREAM, by KILLANE O'BURK Poem Text First Line: Amid night's life - suspending sleep Last Line: And again to loneliness I yield. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares A DREAM, by FREDERICK E. PIETZUCH Poem Text First Line: What is this dream, this changing form Last Line: And angry billows tear the twain apart. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares A DREAM, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In visions of the dark night Last Line: In truth's day-star? [1927-1845] Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares A DREAM, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All yesterday I was spinning Last Line: Remained of my dream to-day. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares A DREAM, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh for my love, my only love Last Line: Most near altho' most far away. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Dreams; Faith; Love; Tears; Nightmares; Belief; Creed A DREAM, by MARY ENOLA RUDOLPH Poem Text First Line: Last night I dreamed of mystic isles Last Line: Of a loneliness for something lost. Subject(s): Dreams; Ships - Abandoning Of; Solitude; Nightmares; Loneliness A DREAM, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was drifting away last night, in a dream Last Line: By the load that I felt on my heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares A DREAM, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some perfect day I shall not need Last Line: Only that I have fallen asleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares A DREAM, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Methought I was a billow in the crowd Last Line: Gleamed like a pile of crags. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares A DREAM, by ROY NANCE SMETHERS Poem Text First Line: We two went, hand in hand, dear love Last Line: And only me for you. Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Seasons; Nightmares A DREAM, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed a morning dream - a torrent brought Last Line: I looked again, the torrent-bed was dry. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares A DREAM, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That was a curious dream; I thought the three Last Line: That I awoke and joined too in their mirth. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Planets; Sea; Sun; Nightmares; World; Ocean A DREAM, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No more in any house can I be at peace Last Line: Daily; and here shall it be in the end,—or here?' Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares A DREAM, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Twas such a big pie that I knew Last Line: Or else I'd have been eaten, too! Subject(s): Dreams; September; Nightmares A DREAM (1), by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed I was a spider Last Line: And devoured them one by one. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Insects; Spiders; Nightmares; Bugs A DREAM AND A SONG, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A dream comes in and a song goes forth Last Line: "where love came home in a dream to me." Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares A DREAM AND A SONG, by ARTHUR EUGENE SMITH Poem Text First Line: The witty and gay had departed Last Line: Their pinions and left us -- sin's prey. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares A DREAM AT ARDEA (MAREMMA), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where ardea, the cliff-girt Last Line: The star of eve. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Love; Mythology - Classical; Rome, Italy; Sea; Venus (goddess); Nightmares; World; Ocean A DREAM DANCE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Maeve held a ball on the dun Last Line: My hand in that beautiful hand. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Dreams; Nightmares A DREAM GARDEN, by ELLA YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Will you come one day to see me Last Line: With a rainbow-gleam. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares A DREAM OF AUTUMN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mellow hazes, lowly trailing Last Line: Down the silence solemnly. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Autumn; Dreams; Grief; Harvest; Seasons; Fall; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness A DREAM OF BRIC-A-BRAC, by JOHN MILTON HAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed I was in fair niphon Last Line: "whenever a man makes a fool of himself." Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares A DREAM OF BURIAL, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing was left of me Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Dreams; Self-pity; Nightmares A DREAM OF DEATH, by LUCY WHITE JENNISON Poem Text First Line: I died; they wrapped me in a shroud Last Line: Arise, and love me, helena! Alternate Author Name(s): Innsley, Owen Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Dead, The; Nightmares A DREAM OF FIFTY, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among all the losses, this was immense Last Line: Wind pressing leaves against a grid of fence. Subject(s): Aging; Birthdays; Dreams; Future; Life; Loss; Nightmares A DREAM OF FOXES, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the dream of foxes Last Line: Safe through the generous fields Subject(s): Dreams; Foxes; Nightmares A DREAM OF GAMES, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His fingers hesitate over Last Line: The loser connected with his law Subject(s): Scrabble (game); Card Games; Dreams; Playing Cards; Nightmares A DREAM OF INSPIRATION, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To loll back, in a misty hammock, swung Last Line: Save fancy's hinted chime of unknown seas. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Dreams; Hammocks; Wind; Inspiration; Creativity; Nightmares A DREAM OF LIFE, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our time-career is yon dark cloud Last Line: God grant! Shall mock their glance. Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Life; Tears; Time; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness A DREAM OF LONG AGO, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lying listless in the mosses Last Line: Through the dreams of long ago. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Bells; Dreams; Past; Nightmares A DREAM OF LOVE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Without the world was beautiful Last Line: And clinging lips confess. Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Nightmares A DREAM OF MOUNTAINEERING, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: At night, in my dream, I stoutly climbed a mountain Last Line: Between the two, I get as much as I lose. Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Dreams; Mountain Climbing; Sleep; Nightmares A DREAM OF PEACE, by LILY PEARL CHAMBERLIN Poem Text First Line: I dreamed that peace had come, - that nevermore Last Line: The age of peace on earth, good will to men. Subject(s): Dreams; Peace; World War I; Nightmares; First World War A DREAM OF PERFECTION, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: I found it in a vision fair Last Line: A perfect soul, and form, and face. Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Perfection; Soul; Time; Nightmares A DREAM OF THE MELBOURNE CUP, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bring me a quart of colonial beer Last Line: And I woke with 'the indigestion'. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Cups; Dreams; Hearts; Melbourne, Australia; Nightmares A DREAM OF WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You were dead, but how sleek and darkly calm you were! Last Line: Lying, saying I cared nothing about form.... Subject(s): Creative Ability; Dreams; Irony; Play; Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963); Inspiration; Creativity; Nightmares A DREAM OR NO, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why go to saint-juliot? What's juliot to me? Last Line: Or beeny, or bos with its flounce flinging mist? Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares A DREAM PANG, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had withdrawn in forest, and my song Last Line: For the wood wakes, and you are here for proof. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares A DREAM UNFINISHED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only a dream unfinished; only a form at rest Last Line: With weary hands clasped lightly over a peaceful breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Heaven; Summer; Nightmares; Paradise A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take this kiss upon the brow! Last Line: But a dream within a dream? Variant Title(s): To - Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM, OR IMITATION, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A dark unfathom'd tide Last Line: With a thought I then did cherish. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares A FANTASY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A fantasy that came to me Last Line: Her mystic fingers knew so well. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Flowers; Trees; Vision; Nightmares A FAREWELL, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, o dream of mine! Last Line: Farewell forever! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Dreams; Farewell; Future; Nightmares; Parting A FRAGMENT, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: And then it seem'd I was a bird Last Line: Twas then I knew it was a dream! Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Birds; Dreams; Singing & Singers; Streets; Nightmares; Avenues A HANGING SCREEN, by MICHAEL ANANIA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In warm sunlight jade Last Line: The line out of reach Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Dreams; Nightmares A HOPELESS CASE (NYDIA), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night I dream of that which cannot be Last Line: Shut in from cold and wind and storm of rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Sleep; Nightmares A KIDDIE'S DREAM, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: A kiddie dreamed that a billy goat Last Line: Can be wrecked the same as pickle boats. Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Night; Silence; Childhood; Nightmares; Bedtime A LETTER, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear, I tried to write you such a letter Last Line: Through the twilight shadows of my heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Dreams; Letters; Love; Tears; Nightmares A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High on his watershelf Last Line: He is reading a chapter on deserts. Subject(s): Dreams; Fish & Fishing; Knowledge; Nightmares A LOST DREAM, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, I have changed, I do not know Last Line: How just a dream could hold me so. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares A METAPHYSICIAN DREAMS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I had died and that small analyst Last Line: And found himself again where he began. Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Dreams; Soul; Worms; Dead, The; Nightmares A MID-DAY DREAMER, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love to sit alone, and dream Last Line: Adown the stream. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares A NEOCLASSICIST, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know your moral sources, prig Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Man-woman Relationships; Old Age; Dead, The; Nightmares; Male-female Relations A NIGHT ON EARTH, by BILLY COLLINS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I got home late and drank most Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Night; Nightmares; Bedtime A NIGHTMARE, by ELIZA OGILVY Poem Text First Line: I dreamed that I was sick and sore at heart Last Line: And still the pulse beat stronger for the pain. Subject(s): Dreams; Fate; Pain; Youth; Nightmares; Destiny; Suffering; Misery A PICTURE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes, in sleeping dreams of night Last Line: And from my heart the woe. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Love; Portraits; Nightmares A PLACE I KNOW, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a place I know Last Line: It is a place of dreams. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares A PLAIN MAN'S DREAM, by FREDERICK KEPPEL Poem Text First Line: Were I transported to some distant star Last Line: Love they would learn full soon without my teaching! Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares A PURE HYPOTHESIS, by MAY EMMA GOLDWORTH KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A lover, in four-dimensioned space, describes a dream Last Line: In three-dimensioned space! Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares A QUESTION, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, who can tell which guide were best Last Line: In sunshine born of thought and love. Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Love; Thought; Vision; Nightmares; Thinking A RECORD; A FRAGMENT, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the dark tempestuous sea Last Line: Through birth and death, doth upward range. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Kisses; Sea; Soul; Tears; Nightmares; Ocean A REVERIE, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One thing I know not, - what, o little maiden Last Line: Leant on my heart and mixt its dream with me! Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Dreams; Love - Loss Of; Nightmares A RING OF CHANGES, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shells, husks, the wandering Subject(s): Casals, Pablo (1876-1973); Dreams; Love; Nature; Music & Musicians; Relationships; Nightmares A SEASON IN HELL: THE ALCHEMY OF WORDS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Listen. The tale of one of my follies Last Line: That is over. Now I know how to greet beauty. Subject(s): Dreams; Language; Nightmares; Words; Vocabulary A SHIPWRECKED PERSON, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I woke from my afternoon nap, I wanted Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares A SONG FOR THE WEARY, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Seems it so sad and strange Last Line: Thee to his breast! Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Life; Moon; Singing & Singers; Nightmares A SONG OF A GARDEN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What a thing a garden is Last Line: To bid grow, to increase! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Animals; Bees; Birds; Dreams; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Herbs; Insects; Medicine; Quiet Life; Beekeeping; Nightmares; Bugs; Drugs, Prescription A SONG OF DREAMS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One came to me in the night Last Line: On her starry towers. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Colors; Dreams; Moon; Travel; Nightmares; Journeys; Trips A SONG OF LOVE AND YOUR DREAMS, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If life be the street Last Line: The false ones true! Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Nightmares A STUDENT, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over an ancient scroll I bent Last Line: The fluttering of an angel's wings! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Past; Schools; Time; Nightmares; Students A SUMMER'S DREAM, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What that dread summer was my heart knows well Last Line: And no gods pity those who steal their treasure. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares A SWIMMER'S DREAM, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn is dim on the dark soft water Last Line: And here to south of them swells the sea. Subject(s): Autumn; Dawn; Dreams; Seasons; Swimming & Swimmers; Water; Fall; Sunrise; Nightmares; Swimmers A TASTE FOR FALLING, by JUDY JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe it was the cold pulling through darkness stippled on darkness Last Line: A taste for falling, from which I never wake Subject(s): Disappointment; Dreams; Nightmares A TRAIN WHISTLE, by ROSS LAWRENCE Poem Text First Line: I like to hear a train whistle Last Line: To dream the years away. Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Nightmares A TRYST WITH DEATH, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am footsore and very weary Last Line: And he only can give me rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Night; Time; Travel; Dead, The; Nightmares; Bedtime; Journeys; Trips A VISION, by RUTH E. HINESLEY Poem Text First Line: I slept and a vision Last Line: Understanding! Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares A VOICE FROM THE FARM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is my dream to have you here with me Last Line: Our way toward home across the dewy fields. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Farm Life; Voices; Nightmares; Agriculture; Farmers A WALTZ THOUGHT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When a man's prime passion, for years on years Last Line: Subtly shaping his witching waltz! Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Graves; Life; Love; Music & Musicians; Nature; Straw; Nightmares; World; Tombs; Tombstones A WEIGHTY MATTER, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamt the whole thing out as I was sleeping Last Line: Might not my dream come true? Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares A WISH, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: May it be mine, ye gods, to tread Last Line: To slumber undisturbed of dreams. Subject(s): Dreams; Nature; Peace; Wishes; Nightmares A WORD WITH THE WIND, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord of days and nights that hear thy word of wintry warming Last Line: Far as foam that laughs and leaps along the sea. Subject(s): Dreams; Nature; Night; Sea; Wind; Nightmares; Bedtime; Ocean A WORLD WITHOUT WATER, by MARY ANN BROWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had a dream in the dead of night Last Line: In mercy I awoke. Alternate Author Name(s): Gray, James, Mrs.; Gray, Mary Anne Browne Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares A WORTH WHILE THEME, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: As I sat and pondered, dreaming, vainly searching, vainly scheming Last Line: Than are found in loving girls and boys. Subject(s): Dreams; Fairies; Waiting; Nightmares; Elves ABOUT INFINITY; AFTER H.H., THE 17TH KARMAPA, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There are stonebreakers in straw hats Last Line: Running in a running stream. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Fathers; Flowers; Dead, The; Nightmares ABOUT MAY, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One night nurse sleep held out her hand Last Line: Better another night. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Girls; Sleep; Nightmares ABSENCES, by EUGENE GRINDEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dull delight and petty mystery Last Line: And the shadows wait for me. Alternate Author Name(s): Eluard, Paul Subject(s): Absence; Dreams; Shadows; Separation; Isolation; Nightmares ABSINTHE, by DAVID WILSHIRE Poem Text First Line: Milky luridly green Last Line: Peace ... Rest ... Dreams unfold. Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Nightmares AD ASTRA: 62, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O woman, with what soul-alluring charms Last Line: Which mocks him with the magic of its gleam! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares AFRICAN DREAM, by BOB KAUFMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In black core of night, it explodes Last Line: Green screams enfold my night Subject(s): Africa; Dreams; Nightmares AFTER 'LES FLEURS' (PAUL ELUARD), by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am 20 years old and holding on Last Line: When I close my eyes I kill you. Subject(s): Dreams; Love - Beginnings; Youth; Nightmares AFTER 1918, by HARRISON HIRES Poem Text First Line: Into the gray mist I went dreaming Last Line: The world from passion and madness spent. Subject(s): Dreams; Sea; Sky; Thought; Nightmares; Ocean; Thinking AFTER DEATH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! This delights me more than Last Line: How I do pity them that pity me. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Graves; Life; Dead, The; Nightmares; Tombs; Tombstones AFTER READING THE RUBAIYAT, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still burning, let me cast the cup of youth aside Last Line: The blood of life's unraptured warriors. Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Night; Youth; Nightmares; Bedtime AFTER THE COYOTES' SONG, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now night is clearly darker than before Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares AFTERNOON AT A PARSONAGE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What wonder man should fail to stay Last Line: Doth near its fellows seem to be. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Children; Dreams; Memory; Night; Plays & Playwrights ; Tears; Childhood; Nightmares; Bedtime; Dramatists AFTERWARDS, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep: here's your bed ... You'll not come, any more, to ours Last Line: Run away, little comet's-hair-comber! Subject(s): Death; Sleep; Dreams; Dead, The; Nightmares AGAINST THE REST OF THE YEAR, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The meadow's a dream I'm working to wake to Last Line: Forever comes to mind, and peaks where the snow stays Subject(s): Dreams; Rivers; Winter; Nightmares AIR OF DIABELLI'S, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Call it to mind, o my love Last Line: Love's own river ripples in the reeds. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Dreams; Eden; Love; Nightmares AIR, TO DREAM IN, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Leave it leave it Last Line: A poem for you Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Sleep; Nightmares AIRS FOR THE LUTE: 3, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why are you so sorrowful in dreams Last Line: From the way of dreams! Subject(s): Dreams; Lutes; Nightmares ALASKA, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The phone rang in the middle of the fairbanks night and was always a Last Line: The beer is on us. Subject(s): Alaska; Dreams; Quilts; Sleep; Telephones; Nightmares ALL IS NOT LOST WHEN DREAMS ARE, by THYLIAS MOSS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dreams float like votive lilies Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares ALL LAST NIGHT I HAD QUIET, by LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Dreams; Togetherness; Nightmares AN AFTERNOON, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am stirred by the dream of an afternoon Last Line: And you -- and live it over. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Afternoon; Dreams; Faces; Lips; Love; Nightmares AN ANGLER'S SOLILOQUY, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Bright fish, weak victim of my wiles Last Line: Our hearts of guile beware. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Dreams; Fish & Fishing; Life; Dead, The; Nightmares AN AUTUMN LEAF, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon my parchment, sadly old Last Line: Of dreams we never quite forget. Subject(s): Dreams; Leaves; Nightmares AN ECLOGUE, TO THE MEMORY OF DR WILLIAM WILKE, LATE PROFESSOR, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blaw saft, my reed, and kindly to my mane Last Line: Fam'd as the urn that hads the mantuan swain. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Dead, The; Nightmares AN EMIGRANT, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is she asleep, asleep Last Line: Rest she adream, adream. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Immigrants; Rest; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration AN EMPTY NEST, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I find an old deserted nest Last Line: A phantom guest of empty dreams. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Summer; Youth; Nightmares AN EQUATION FOR MARIE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This dream prorogued / is not a cause Subject(s): Dreams; Reality; Nightmares AN EVENING SKETCH, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The birds have ceased their songs Last Line: There might be realms of real happiness! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Dreams; Evening Star; Serenity; Silence; Nightmares AN HOUR, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You only promised me a single hour Last Line: Where all the forms of time are like a dream. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Time; Nightmares AN INVOCATION, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet sleep, with mellow palms Last Line: And walled with harps, and roofed with crowns of gold! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Magic; Sleep; Nightmares AN ODE COMPOSED IN SLEEP, by JUDITH (COWPER) MADAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lovely fairy! Charming sprite! Last Line: And the prevailing voice of love. Subject(s): Dreams; Self; Nightmares AN OLD HYMN FOR IAN JENKINS, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: All things we value in terms of contrast Last Line: Of the dream is place. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Cities; Dreams; New York City; Southern States; Estrangement; Outcasts; Urban Life; Nightmares; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; South (u.s.) AN OLD SWEETHEART [OF MINE], by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An old sweetheart of mine! -- is this her presence here with me Last Line: To greet the living presence of that old sweetheart of mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Love - Beginnings; Childhood; Nightmares ANAESTHETICS, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: I dreamt I saw a healer stand Last Line: "upsteals the saintly moon!" Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Soul; Time; Youth; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness AND THE DREAMERS OF DREAMS, by JOHN OSCAR BECK Poem Text First Line: A maiden there is Last Line: Be just for the children and fools and the dreamers of dreams. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares ANNIVERSARY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There were so many to pray for, o dear grey head Last Line: All night long you grieved with me until the day. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Anniversaries; Death; Dreams; Grief; Memory; Solitude; Dead, The; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness ANTHEMES FOR THE CATHEDRAL OF EXCETER: 1, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord what am I? A worm, dust, vapor, nothing! Last Line: Present me to thy blissfull throne. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Dreams; Life; Love; Sin; Dead, The; Nightmares APART, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: A piece of cliff that broke away Last Line: What power disposed, and understands? Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Nightmares APOLOGY FOR BAD DREAMS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the purple light, heavy with redwood, the slopes drop seaward Last Line: Foreland, the ever-returning roses of dawn Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares APPENDIX TO 'LAZARUS': 7, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At reason's solemn judgment-seat Last Line: That I am ruin'd and forsaken. Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Reason; Nightmares; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals AROUND LAKE ERIE AND ACROSS THE HUDSON, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A rotten week, affections Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares ARS POETICA, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is almost polio season. The girls Last Line: Considering how beautiful she was. Subject(s): Dreams; Girls; Massachusetts; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Smoking; Nightmares; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes ART, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Art has her altars and her avatars Last Line: A poe sleeps, folded in that perfect dream. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Dreams; Earth; Poetry & Poets; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Soul; Nightmares; World AS IN VISION, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes in heaven-sent dreams I do behold Last Line: What though my path lead through the wilderness? Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares AS TOLL, by JOHN BARKER Poem Text First Line: Lovely mabel, were you dreaming? Last Line: Just for toll. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares AS WE READ BURNS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is speaking? Who has Last Line: You outhold so lovingly! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Dreams; Nightmares ASLEEP, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The waxen taper faintly gleamed Last Line: His quiet vigil kept. Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Marriage; Sleep; Nightmares; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ASOLANDO: BAD DREAMS, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I saw you in my sleep Last Line: Of scorn ... If only ghosts might blab! Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares ASPIRATION, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The roots of a dead universe are shrunken in my brain Last Line: And enaureole a glory round an unawaken'd theme. Subject(s): Desire; Dreams; Nightmares ASSOCIATIONS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You know the place is just the same Last Line: And then I know that I am dreaming. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Memory; Dreams; Nightmares AT A GRAVE, by ROBERT LEE CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dreamings are ever in my heart Last Line: On a saviour's tranquil breast. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Dead, The; Nightmares AT DAWN, by AMY LEVY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the night I dreamed of you Last Line: The empty day? Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares AT DUSK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A something quiet and subdued Last Line: Would it were dusk alway! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Dusk; Faces; Nightmares AT LENNO, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By lake como's sylvan shore Last Line: I would dream that I am floating on the lake of long ago. Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Life; Roman Empire; Nightmares ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 20, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas the sunrise. Golden arrows Last Line: And the town jerusalem. Subject(s): Dawn; Dreams; Jerusalem; Love; Sunrise; Nightmares ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 3, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Summer-night's dream! All-fantastic Last Line: Heard those sounds in earlier days? Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Summer; Nightmares AUCTION EXTRAORDINARY, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: I dreamed a dream in the midst of my slumbers Last Line: Each lugged an old bachelor home on her shoulder. Subject(s): Dreams; Single People; Sleep; Taxes; Nightmares; Bachelors; Unmarried People AUF WIEDERSEHEN, by S. ABBOTT Poem Text First Line: The coals have lower, fainter burned Last Line: To meet again. Subject(s): Dreams; Hope; Thought; Nightmares; Optimism; Thinking AUGUST THIRD, by YVONNE FLORENCE Poem Text First Line: We are so near the music Last Line: And be free! Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Music & Musicians; Soul; Nightmares AUSTRALIAN TRANSCRIPTS: AN ORANGE GROVE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The short sweet purple twilight dreams Last Line: That stirs it from cicalas shrill. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Australia; Dreams; Dusk; Oranges; Nightmares AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: In my childhood trees were green Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares AUTUMN TUNE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweeter than spring, sweeter than spring Last Line: Where death is a-dream on azure wings. Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Dreams; Fear; Life; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The; Nightmares BABE HERRICK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As a rosebud might, in dreams Last Line: Of thy mother slumberest. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Lilies; Roses; Nightmares BABETTE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "the dusk of the night is sweet, babette" Last Line: With a rose in your dusky hair! Subject(s): Dreams;flowers;love;night;roses; Nightmares;bedtime BALLADE OF A DREAM ADDICT, by VIRGINIA SCOTT Poem Text First Line: I have no will to weep if love should leave Last Line: The drug of dreams will ever ease the heart. Alternate Author Name(s): O'neill, Virginia Scott Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares BEETHOVEN IN CENTRAL PARK, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The thousand-windowed towers were all alight Last Line: With his own grief, and his own majesty. Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Central Park, New York City; Composers; Dreams; Grief; Music & Musicians; Nations; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness BEGINNINGS, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN Poem Text First Line: All worthwhile beginnings follow a dream Last Line: Till consequent beauty in action unfolds. Subject(s): Dreams; Thought; Nightmares; Thinking BELLS JANGLED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lie low-coiled in a nest of dreams Last Line: Where I neither sleep nor wake. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Bells; Dreams; Sleep; Soul; Nightmares BEREFT, SHE THINKS SHE DREAMS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dream that the dearest I ever knew Last Line: And no one wakes me! Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares BERENICE, by FRANCES FUERST QUICK Poem Text First Line: Such silly things my baby sneaks to bed Last Line: To want to keep them—'cause they help us dream! Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Childhood; Nightmares BESS, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When bess, the landlord's black-eyed Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Dreams; Nightmares BETWEEN SLEEP AND WAKING, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Softly in a dream I heard Last Line: Between sleep and waking. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares BIOGRAPHY, by IDELLA PURNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gregory had a proud mother Last Line: I think he was reaching for the stars in the lake. Subject(s): Dreams; Mothers; Stars; Suicide; Nightmares BLACK SWANS ON THE MURRAY LAGOONS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The long lagoons lie white and still Last Line: Moves as in sleep some bodeful dream. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Australia; Birds; Death; Dreams; Lagoons; Life; Swans; Dead, The; Nightmares BLASPHEMY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O fairy form, o flower-like face Last Line: The dead, the dead must be. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Earth; Hearts; Love; Sea; Dead, The; Nightmares; World; Ocean BLEST IS THE TARN, by SARA COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blest is the tarn which towering cliffs o'ershade Last Line: She yields that dream of bliss to ever welcome sleep. Subject(s): Dreams; Lakes; Mountains; Tarns; Nightmares; Pools; Ponds; Hills; Downs (great Britain) BLOSSOMS, by HALA JEAN HAMMOND Poem Text First Line: Not all of lifted florescence Last Line: Rained blossoms of blood. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares BLUE SHIRT, by PAUL W. SKEETERS Poem Text First Line: I saw a boy with a new blue shirt today Last Line: And carry wistful fire in my eyes. Subject(s): Dreams; Himalayas (mountains); Travel; Nightmares; Journeys; Trips BON ESPOIR Y GIST AU FOND!, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One shimmering opal is all the air Last Line: And we are not yet the devil's food! Subject(s): Dreams; God; Moon; Moss; Secrets; Nightmares BREAGHY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When twilight flutters the mountains over Last Line: Come from this heart that was touched by the flame. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Nightmares; World BRIDGES OF DREAMS, by WILL CHAMBERLAIN Poem Text First Line: I built a bridge of dreams across Last Line: Of all my dreams. Subject(s): Dreams; God; Religion; Nightmares; Theology BRING FLOWERS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bring flowers to strew in the conqueror's path! Last Line: They break forth in glory. Bring flowers, bright flowers! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Youth; Nightmares BROKEN SLEEP, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three times a night, I climb from my percocet Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares BROTHER BEASTS, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Winter is here / and there are no leaves Last Line: May have some goal. Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Soul; Stars; Winter; Nightmares BROTHERLY, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And wasn't he the one that flew? And wasn't he the one Subject(s): Self; Dreams; Nightmares BUT WHAT WILL THEY REMEMBER ..., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But what will they remember of the arm Last Line: Which hid itself in her persistent heart? Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Memory; Nightmares BY AN INDIAN GRAVE, by MILDRED PLEW MEIGS MERRYMAN Poem Text First Line: Sleep on, dead seminole - your bones are chalk Last Line: And we two dream together, seminole. Alternate Author Name(s): Meigs, Mildred Plew Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Native Americans; Dead, The; Nightmares; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America BY THE CH'EN GATE, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At dusk as wild geese winged their aery way Last Line: But through me rang the name of kubla khan. Subject(s): Deserts; Dreams; Dusk; Food & Eating; Tibet; Nightmares BY THE SEA, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night a hand on my window tapped Last Line: And the moan of the rising sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Dreams; Ghosts; Sea; Supernatural; Nightmares; Ocean BY TWILIGHT, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If we dream that desire of the distance above us Last Line: If we dream. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Evening; Dead, The; Nightmares; Sunset; Twilight CALIBAN [ON THE ISLAND], FR. THE TEMPEST, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be not afeard: the isle is full of noise Last Line: I cried to dream again. Subject(s): Dreams; Sound; Nightmares CALLING DREAMS, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The right to make my dreams come true Last Line: And stride into the morning-break! Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Dreams; Negroes; American Blacks; Nightmares CALVARY, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Faint incense from the lily goes Last Line: (and where is calvary?) Subject(s): Calvary; Dreams; Nightmares CARNAGE: 3. LOUVAIN, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Serene in beauty's olden lineage Last Line: Where the dead hail him william of louvain! Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Louvain, Belgium; Silence; Soul; World War I; Dead, The; Nightmares; First World War CASTLES, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a picture in my brain Last Line: Upon the trestles. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares CHANT D'AUTOMNE, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lamp is lit and all the world is gray Last Line: "I paint my dreams." Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Love; Memory; Passion; Nightmares CHASING A RAINBOW OF DREAMS, by MABEL ETHLEEN PALMER Poem Text First Line: A pilot am I / roaming the sky Last Line: At the end of my rainbow of dreams. Subject(s): Dreams; Happiness; Nightmares; Joy; Delight CHEMIN DE FER, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A chapel has fallen into ruins Last Line: Its severed goose-wing of snow. Subject(s): Churches; Dreams; Francis Assisi, Saint (1181-1226); Ruins; Saints; Cathedrals; Nightmares CHILD-PLAY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As children play with toys Last Line: Realities that choke them here. Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Tears; Toys; Childhood; Nightmares CHILDREN'S SONG, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Juveniles: is it snow on the hedges? Last Line: Father's come home again, etc. Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Life; Singing & Singers; Childhood; Nightmares; Songs CHILDWIST, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Rapt dreamer, what revealments dost thou see? Last Line: Still silent cherish till the daylight dies! Subject(s): Dreams; Wisdom; Youth; Nightmares CHUANG TZU, by A. F. EHRENBURG Poem Text First Line: Night - in the narrow darkness of my garret Last Line: Or has a dream just vanished with the dawn? Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares CLAIR DE LUNE, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Powder and scent and silence. The young dwarf Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares COBRA, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What are these nightmares Last Line: Then slept in the cool dirt under the granary. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Dreams; Fear; Nightmares COMBING, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: All for the sake of lovely dreams Last Line: Am sometimes left without a thought. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares COME SI QUANDO, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How thickly the far fields of heaven are strewn with stars Last Line: As I lay marvelling at the riddle of my strange dream. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares COMMUNION: 6. ADSUM, by ARVIA MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Song of the sylphin breezes Last Line: And I in the world. Subject(s): Dreams; Light; Nightmares COMPENSATIONS, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not with a flash that rends the blue Last Line: And ask no more in death. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Eyes; Love; Moon; Dead, The; Nightmares CONEY ISLAND BY NIGHT, by GUSTAV DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: City of dreams, / I watch you from the ocean's edge tonight Last Line: Forever and forever. ... Subject(s): Coney Island, New York City; Dreams; Seashore; Nightmares; Beach; Coast; Shore CONSCIENCE-STRICKEN, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Tho' cool the hour, a fever blazed within Last Line: Became our choice. Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Sin; Truth; Voices; Nightmares CONSENTMENT, by CATULLE MENDES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now ahod on the plain kept countless sheep Last Line: She took her woollen robe and forth she went. Subject(s): Dreams; God; Sheep; Nightmares CONTENT, by PEARL H. LUEBKE Poem Text First Line: Winter's heart is drowsy Last Line: With content, content. Subject(s): Contentment; Dreams; Nightmares COR CORDIUM, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet heart, true heart, strong heart, star of my life, oh, never Last Line: And for thee the lowered banner, o sweet heart never! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Future Life; Hearts; Loss; Loyalty; Man-woman Relationships; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Male-female Relations CORINNE'S LAST LOVE-SONG, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How beautiful, how beautiful you streamed upon my sight Last Line: Yet I would bear its darkest woes to dream that dream again. Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares CORONADO, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the beach at coronado curves the shore in crescent wise Last Line: Curves to met the benediction of the californian skies. Subject(s): Dreams; Islands; Night; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Stars; Nightmares; Bedtime; Beach; Coast; Shore CRESSIDA, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fire catches agamemnon's crimson sail Last Line: Flowed the delicious future of his dream. Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Nightmares CRISIS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Has life no seer, who, with enthralled throat Last Line: Shall never again darken us with its woe. Subject(s): Dreams; Fear; Life; Time; U.s. - History; World War Ii; Nightmares; Second World War CROSSTOWN, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back in new york I grab a taxi at port authority Last Line: X-rays, so it’s cancer Subject(s): New York City; City Traffic; Taxis; Buses; Democracy; War; Politics & Politicians; African Americans; Racism; Nightmares CUPID TURNED STROLLER, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At dead of night, when stars appear Last Line: Safe is my bow, but sick thy heart.' Subject(s): Cupid; Dreams; Night; Voices; Eros; Nightmares; Bedtime DAFFODILS, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If daffodils were merely yellow flowers Last Line: In my love's gentle heart when she was young. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Daffodils; Dreams; Love; Nightmares DARKNESS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had a dream, which was not all a dream Last Line: Of aid from them -- she was the universe. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Despair; Dreams; Nightmares DAUGHTER, by MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Dreams; Daughters; Nightmares DAVE FIELD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me write you a rune of a rhyme Last Line: Toward the topmost heights, dave field. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dawn; Dreams; Rhyme; Youth; Sunrise; Nightmares DAY LABORERS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They straggle down the street; the morning light Last Line: And leaveth not the poor uncomforted. Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Labor & Laborers; Tears; Nightmares; Work; Workers DAY-DREAMS, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, sweet are the dreams that darkness brings Last Line: The dreams of our waking hours. Subject(s): Day; Dreams; Love; Waking; Nightmares DAY-DREAMS, by EMILU ANDREWS THOMPSON Poem Text First Line: Dreamy-eyed, pensive; slender hand on knee Last Line: What matters fortune, if you keep your dreams -- Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares DAYBREAK OVER THE HALL OF FAME, by LEON LOISELLE Poem Text First Line: I live within the shadow - hall of fame Last Line: But dreams are short-lived, so true in life. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares DEATH, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We toil and take our rest - we laugh and weep Last Line: Dreams of strange regions, passing mortal taint. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Fates (mythology); Life; Love; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares DEATH OF THE DREAMER, by HARRIET SEYMOUR Poem Text First Line: At dawning, with my head held high Last Line: Upon the sky of june. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares DEFINITIONS, by LOLLY WILLIAMS Poem Text First Line: Dreams are sticks of dynamite Last Line: I shall be warm. Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Solitude; Nightmares; Loneliness DELIVERANCE, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You took my little dreams Last Line: And showed them stars. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares DESERT MADNESS, by FLORENCE H. HARKINS Poem Text First Line: Eerie and dim, a ghostly twilight land Last Line: "here in my apron I have saved his bones." Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares DESIRE, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ope! Ye everlasting doors, unto my soul's demand Last Line: And I must stand within the halls resplendent, of my dreams. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares DESIRE, by EMMA HICKS MCDONALD Poem Text First Line: The antennae of a dream / reaching for honey Last Line: Unseen. Subject(s): Desire; Dreams; Nightmares DIM FACE OF BEAUTY, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dim face of beauty haunting all the world Last Line: To a little sand. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Men; Peace; Stars; Nightmares DIRE: 12. INTERCESSION, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O death, a little more, and then the worm Last Line: Paris, september, 1869. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Nations; Soul; Dead, The; Nightmares DIRECTIONS, by HELEN WINIFRED RIVOLA Poem Text First Line: How can I tell you Last Line: Tis pan's pipes are playing! Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares DISCREPANCY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One dream the bird and blossom dreamed Last Line: In fragrance and in song. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Nightmares DISILLUSIONMENT OF TEN O'CLOCK, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The houses are haunted Last Line: In red weather. Subject(s): Conformity; Dreams; Nightmares DISTANT SONG, by HENRY SPIESS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A delicate and downcast air Last Line: Dwells? Subject(s): Dreams; Farewell; Memory; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Parting DOGEN'S DREAM, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What happens when the god of spring Last Line: On earth flying north. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Dreams; Zen Buddhism; Nightmares DOMESDAY BOOK: DR. BURKE, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You've heard of potters' wheels and potters' hands Last Line: This story to the coroner. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Life; Physicians; Religion; Dead, The; Nightmares; Doctors; Theology DOMESDAY BOOK: ELENOR MURRAY, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Coroner merival took the hundred letters Last Line: And at his house they talked the case and supped. Subject(s): Dreams; Friendship; Letters; Love; Soul; Nightmares DON QUIXOTE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Smiles for him, yes, and tears -- but most of all Last Line: Who wrought so beautifully -- in his dream! Subject(s): Don Quixote; Dreams; Knights & Knighthood; Smiles; Soul; Tears; Nightmares DOWN HERE, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down here the lilies wither away Last Line: Always. Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme Subject(s): Dreams; Thought; Time; Nightmares; Thinking DREAM, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But now the dream has come again, the world is as of old Last Line: I have denied thou wert at all -- yet still I fight for thee. Subject(s): Dreams; Beauty; Nightmares DREAM, by RICHARD WATSON DIXON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With camel's hair I clothed my skin Last Line: At once, and he died looking towards my face. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares DREAM, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It was the sung dynasty Last Line: The waterfall stopped. Subject(s): China; Dreams; Love Affairs; Tatars; Nightmares; Tartars DREAM, by JACK GREENBERG Poem Text First Line: I know that the dream is not meant to stay Last Line: That nurses the will and banishes doubt. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares DREAM, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Son of folly, dream thou ever Last Line: Vain laments no longer raise! Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Love; Youth; Nightmares DREAM, by MIKHAIL YUREVICH LERMONTOV Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By hot noon, in a vale of dargestan Last Line: In cold streams out of it, and ebbed away. Alternate Author Name(s): Lermontov, Mikhail Yuryevich Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares DREAM, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see a spirit Last Line: But I, myself,—alas! Subject(s): Dreams; Old Age; Nightmares DREAM, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see you displaced, condensed, within my dream Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares DREAM, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The committee - now a permanent body Subject(s): Art & Artists; Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Composers; Dreams; Music & Musicians; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Nightmares DREAM AND IDEAL, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Diana with her limbs of dream Last Line: Across the distance for his sake. Subject(s): Dreams; Love - Unrequited; Man-woman Relationships; Nightmares; Male-female Relations DREAM AND LIFE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The day was glowing, my heart, too, glow'd Last Line: A nasty insect meets my sight. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Dreams; Life; Tears; Nightmares DREAM AND REALITY, by O. E. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: The farmer stood by the cottage door Last Line: On the rock-ribbed hills of maine. Subject(s): Dreams; Farm Life; Sons; Summer; Nightmares; Agriculture; Farmers DREAM ENCONTERS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The measureless houses of dreams Last Line: And all heaven with one heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares DREAM FANTASY, by THOMAS BRUCE REESE Poem Text First Line: My sleep / follows Last Line: That a sweet dream can never quite return. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares DREAM FANTASY, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a land of dream Last Line: Lie hush'd the valleys of dream? Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Future Life; Moon; Religion; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Theology DREAM IN BLOOM, by CORA MAY PREBLE Poem Text First Line: I found a gay dream Last Line: For a cold winter day. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares DREAM IN WHICH I MEET MYSELF, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even the butter's a block of sleazy light. I see that first, Subject(s): Dreams; Self; Nightmares DREAM JOURNALS, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A pen wearing its sock for a cap rested on paper Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares DREAM LOVE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I did not deem it half so sweet Last Line: But beauty's self in you. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Love; Nightmares DREAM MEADOWS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Girt with great garths of shadow Last Line: Beneath those silent skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Future Life; Pain; Spiritual Life; Dead, The; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Suffering; Misery DREAM MOMENTS, by ALLETHA GOSS HARGRAVE Poem Text First Line: Faint trailing wisps of clouds Last Line: When thou art night. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares DREAM OF DONEGAL, by GERTRUDE JANE CODD Poem Text First Line: I can see the little cottage by the sea, by the sea Last Line: Oh, father, be a boy again, and not so cold and still! Subject(s): Dreams; Parents; Sea; Nightmares; Parenthood; Ocean DREAM OF LIFE, by MARY ELIZABETH BROOKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the music of the wave Last Line: Thus woke his wassail song -- Alternate Author Name(s): Norna; Aikin, Mary Elizath Subject(s): Waves; Ships & Shipping; Dreams; Nightmares DREAM OF THE EVIL SERVANT, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We kept war in the kitchen Last Line: I am wretched. Be my mother. Be my maid Subject(s): Dreams; India; Nightmares DREAM ON, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Some people go their whole lives Subject(s): Dreams; Human Behavior; Nightmares; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature DREAM SONG: 1, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long years ago, within a distant clime Last Line: May turn me from the lady of my dreams. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares DREAM SONG: 2, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pray, what can dreams avail Last Line: Why should a maiden's dreams prevail? Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares DREAM TRAGEDIES, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Thou art not always kind, o sleep Last Line: With a mad cry that dream, and wake. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares DREAM WITH CLAM-DIGGERS, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This dream budded bright with leaves round the edges Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Innocence; Nightmares DREAM-LAND, by WILLIAM C. CAMERON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis not knee-deep 'mong growing grass Last Line: Has failed to give our heritage! Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares DREAM-LIFE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Listen, friend, and I will tell you Last Line: And, indeed -- I never know. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Life; Pain; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery DREAM-MARCH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wasn't it a funny dream! - perfectly bewild'rin'! Last Line: Some go to dream them; and some go to bed! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Night; Travel; Childhood; Nightmares; Bedtime; Journeys; Trips DREAM-PEDLARY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If there were dreams to sell Last Line: Ever to last! Variant Title(s): Dreams To Sell Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares DREAM-SONG SEA-SONG, by EUNICE W. GILKEY Poem Text First Line: Take me / bear me gently - lightly Last Line: Waves of sea. Subject(s): Dreams; Sea; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Ocean; Songs DREAM: THE DISCLOSURE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I would further than I have Last Line: The juices are harmless, they are not poison, they are life Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares DREAMER, by BEATRICE RAW Poem Text First Line: Let the brave soul boldly go Last Line: From tempests of reality. Subject(s): Dreams; Reality; Soul; Nightmares DREAMER'S MEADOW, by FANIA KRUGER Poem Text First Line: He toils and dreams in every weather Last Line: When the dream and the crop have grown together? Subject(s): Dreams; Labor & Laborers; Nightmares; Work; Workers DREAMER, SAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dreamer, say, will you dream for me Last Line: Breaks the sleep of the silence there? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Sea; Nightmares; Ocean DREAMERS OF DREAMS, by WILLIAM HERBERT CARRUTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are all of us dreamers of dreams Last Line: When the last of his dreams is dead. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares DREAMING, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Softly through my soul tonight Last Line: Gladdened by these tender eyes- / ah! I'm merely dreaming Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares DREAMING, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moan of a wintry soul Last Line: In the shelter of words where they rest. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares DREAMING, by GEORGE MCCALLA SPEARS Poem Text First Line: Dreams are the mists of thoughts Last Line: If sometime, sweetheart, you could dream of me! Subject(s): Desire; Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares DREAMING OF DREAMS, by MABEL A. HANSON Poem Text First Line: I am dreaming of dreams today Last Line: I am sad in my dreaming of dreams. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares DREAMING OF YUAN CHEN, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At night you came and took my hand and we wandered together in my dream Last Line: Among the shadows of the terrace of night did you know them or not? Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Death; Dreams; Dead, The; Nightmares DREAMINGS, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bog blossom's golden pistil Last Line: One who has ne'er forgotten, one who can ne'er forget. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Flowers; Memory; Dead, The; Nightmares DREAMLAND, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: In wonderful dreamland where lovers are free Last Line: Not only for time, but for eternity. Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Passion; Sleep; Nightmares DREAMLAND, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the silent sea of sleep Last Line: On the dreamings of the night. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares DREAMLAND, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I woke from dreams of rare delight Last Line: And reawaken . . . Nevermore. Subject(s): Children; Death; Dreams; Sleep; Youth; Childhood; Dead, The; Nightmares DREAMS, by AUGUSTE ANGELLIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Often I dream your big blue eyes Last Line: And dim with dear distress. Subject(s): Dreams; Eyes; Nightmares DREAMS, by GAMALIEL BRADFORD Poem Text First Line: Come to me in my dreams, and I Last Line: Dreams will be quite enough for yours. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares DREAMS, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It looks as if in dreams the soul was free Last Line: And turns and hides its shame with some poor sorry jest. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares DREAMS, by JULIET H. CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Many, oh! Man, are the wild dreams beguiling Last Line: Love was her heaven, now heaven is her love. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Juliet H. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares DREAMS, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Often I sit and spend my hour Last Line: And worketh in the end -- his will. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares DREAMS, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have our dreams; not happiness Last Line: Nor care a penny what we dream Subject(s): Cities; Dreams; Urban Life; Nightmares DREAMS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: When the sun, rising in glory Last Line: Looking down on you and me. Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares DREAMS, by JOHN MILTON HAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love a woman tenderly Last Line: And truth I find alone in dreams. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares DREAMS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here we are all, by day; by night w'are hurl'd Last Line: By dreames, each one, into a sev'rall world. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares DREAMS, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A dream of lilies: all the blooming earth Last Line: And life has nothing like death's dreamless sleep. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares DREAMS, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a season when I loved Last Line: Smile on me in my dreams! Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares DREAMS, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Oh rule me to be wholly thine Last Line: A dream of stars and snow! Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Nightmares DREAMS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hope some day to write a song that will Last Line: Coal, you struggle on accordin'. Subject(s): Ambition; Dreams; Wishes; Nightmares DREAMS, by VIRGINIA TAYLOR MCCORMICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On a hill, facing heaven, I have prayed alone Last Line: I would be in the valley, with four walls and you. Subject(s): Dreams; Heaven; Nightmares; Paradise DREAMS, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dreams are the only Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares DREAMS, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! That my young life were a lasting dream! Last Line: Than young hope in his sunniest hour hath known. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares DREAMS, by PHILIP MAX RASKIN Poem Text First Line: I will not change my path with you Last Line: For all your dreams of gold. Alternate Author Name(s): Raskin, P. M. Subject(s): Dreams; Materialism; Worship; Nightmares DREAMS, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even a fool can tell you that a week Last Line: The dream of it will run from door to door. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares DREAMS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dream of her the whole night long Last Line: The pillows wet with tears. Subject(s): Dreams; Love - Unrequited; Nightmares DREAMS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our dreams but tell the thoughts of those Last Line: In lights and shadows not its own. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares DREAMS, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I gave my life to another lover Last Line: Is waiting tho' I see him not. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Love - Loss Of; Nightmares DREAMS, by THOMAS TRAHERNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis strange! I saw the skies Last Line: From whence all joy, from whence all sorrow springs. Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Nightmares DREAMS, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text 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 DREAMS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thank god for dreams! I, desolate and lone Last Line: Thank god, thank god for dreams! Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; God; Kisses; Pain; Soul; Nightmares; Suffering; Misery DREAMS (1), by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dream on, for dreams are sweet Last Line: Oh, weep when thou awakest! Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares DREAMS (2), by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What dreams we have and how they fly Last Line: Upon our souls, all dreams -- ah! Dreams. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares DREAMS AND FANCIES, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Every moment in the gloaming Last Line: Halos all our sorrow. Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Love; Memory; Soul; Nightmares DREAMS ARE BEST, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I just think that dreams are best Last Line: Oh, I think that dreams are best! Subject(s): Dreams; Heaven; Nightmares; Paradise DREAMS IN ROME, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is it that sings a sleepy tune in my head? Last Line: Is there no rest for me here? Are there dreams in rome? Subject(s): Dreams; Rome, Italy; Nightmares DREAMS IN WAR TIME, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wandered through a house of many rooms. Subject(s): Dreams; Youth; Transience; Nightmares; Impermanence DREAMS OF THE PAST, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As we wander alone where the moonlight resposes Last Line: Would thrust from its visions the dreams of the past? Subject(s): Dreams; Past; Nightmares DREAMS REALIZED, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We all have dreams when we are young Last Line: Bring free gifts elysian. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares DREAMS WITHIN DREAMS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have gone out and seen the lands of faery Last Line: And beauty and peace and sorrow are dreams within dreams. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Fairies; Grief; Peace; Secrets; Wisdom; Nightmares; Elves; Sorrow; Sadness DREAMS: ON THE HUNTING GROUND, by DANIEL CHAUNCEY BREWER Poem Text First Line: We sleep upon fir-tree boughs at night Last Line: For the coming by and by. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Dreams; Love; Nightmares DREAMS; SONNET, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not care to talk to you although Last Line: Reverse their leaves and shimmer through the woods. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares DREAMS?, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My spirit slips away at night Last Line: Will waken daily with a smile. Subject(s): Dreams; Future Life; Soul; Truth; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life DREAMWORK THREE, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A trembling old man dreams of a chinese garden Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares ECSTASY, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moon shines now Last Line: Hour of delight! Subject(s): Dreams; Forests; Love; Moon; Nightmares; Woods EIGHTEEN DAYS WITHOUT YOU: DECEMBER 2ND, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I slept last night Subject(s): Sleep; Dreams; Mothers; Death; Nightmares; Dead, The ELECTRA: DREAMS COME TRUE. CHORUS, by SOPHOCLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I am not a fool in prophecy Last Line: Unless this dream comes true. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares ELEGY AT NOON, by PAUL SOUCHON Poem Text First Line: When in the street at noon the human tide Last Line: Through all his blood roll the resplendent light. Subject(s): Dreams; Lips; Nightmares EMILY (ON BEING TOLD TO CEASE DAY-DREAMING), by LELAND WEST Poem Text First Line: She locked the house behind her Last Line: She kept the silver key. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares EMPIRE OF DREAMS, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the first page of my dreambook Subject(s): Dreams; War; Nightmares ENCHANTMENT, by GEORGE H. DILLON Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: No man can say what spell was thrust Last Line: With earth through darkness disenchanted. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares ENDING, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A fitting benediction of words Last Line: Opened its eyes and perished. Subject(s): Dreams; Talk; Nightmares EPITAPH, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I loved, was loved. The puff of smoke called life Last Line: I lie where I may dream, nor dream in vain. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Epitaphs; Graves; Life; Love; Dead, The; Nightmares; Tombs; Tombstones EURYDICE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Orpheus, the night is full of tears and cries Last Line: Wait, and see hell yield up eurydice. Subject(s): Dreams; Mythology - Classical; Night; Orpheus; Tears; Nightmares; Bedtime EVENING, by ALBERT SAMAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The evening's angel passes where flowers glow.. Last Line: An angel gathers this sad dream of thine. Subject(s): Dreams; Evening; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Nightmares; Sunset; Twilight EVES, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When life is very lonely Last Line: You passing by! Subject(s): Dreams; Eyes; Love; Nightmares EXTRACT FROM THE DREAM, by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh twilight! Spirit that does render birth Last Line: Plods his sauntering way along, whistling the fragment of some village song! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares EYE HATH NOT SEEN, by J. W. HAND Poem Text First Line: I've been to the end of the world and back Last Line: As a dove that is free from all sin. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares FAILURE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For them that on the mountain fight beneath Last Line: Unvigilant, unwounded; they but sheep! Subject(s): Dreams; God; Life; Tears; Nightmares FAIREST HOUR, by FRANCIS VIELE-GRIFFIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fairest hour, we must part Last Line: And I did not—truthfully—know you were here. Subject(s): Dreams; Time; Waiting; Nightmares FALLING ASLEEP OVER THE AENEID, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is blue and scarlet on my page, Subject(s): Reading; Mythology; Dreams; Funerals; Poetry & Poets; Nightmares; Burials FALLING THROUGH, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A mystic dreamer, fierce and wild Last Line: He thought no more of power. Subject(s): Dreams; Mysticism; Sleep; Nightmares FAME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once, in a dream, I saw a man Last Line: Who signs his nom de plume, the end Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Fame; Heaven; Life; Nightmares; Reputation; Paradise FANCY AND IMAGINATION, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a pleasure, now and then, in giving Last Line: Woo your sublime delights, and bless you on my waking. Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Dreams; Imagination; Nightmares; Fancy FANTASY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over all the dream-built margin, flushed with Last Line: With the seraph of the darkness martyred in the fires of day. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Nightmares FATE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: As two proud ships upon the pathless main Last Line: So we two parted. Shall we meet again? Subject(s): Boats;dreams;farewell;ships & Shipping; Nightmares;parting FENIX, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Face cross-hatched by violet shadows that fall round her like a net, Last Line: And on the other lens my ass Subject(s): Dreams; Social Classes; Man-woman Relationships; Nightmares; Caste; Male-female Relations FIN DE SIECLE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Life is a gift that most of us hold dear Subject(s): Cynicism;dreams;life;love;oysters; Nightmares FIRST DAY OF WAR, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Twixt sleep and wakefulness sweet dreams that lightly pass. Calm Last Line: Dead. Subject(s): Courage; Dreams; Love; War; Valor; Bravery; Nightmares FIVE CRITICISMS, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old pantaloon, lean-witted, dour and rich Last Line: And we're the lonely dreamers after all. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Criticism & Critics; Death; Dreams; England; Hate; Pride; Soul; Youth; Dead, The; Nightmares; English; Self-esteem; Self-respect FLEEING AWAY, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My thoughts soar not as they ought to soar Last Line: Is the higher self that I long to be. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Life; Night; Thought; Nightmares; Bedtime; Thinking FOOLS OF DREAM, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You will find them in lone hidings Last Line: To the deathless fools of dream! Subject(s): Dreams; Fools; Laughter; Time; Wind; Nightmares; Idiots FOR A DREAM'S SAKE, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: I threw from me my sweetest boon Last Line: For a dream's sake. Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Nightmares FOR A STUDENT SLEEPING IN A POETRY WORKSHOP, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've watched his eyelids sag, spring open Subject(s): Classmates; Dreams; Schools; Sleep; Teaching & Teachers; Schoolmates; Nightmares; Students FOR MY FATHER, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over and over again I dream a dream Last Line: In the quiet evening I am finding you. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Daughters; Death; Dreams; Fathers; Homecoming; Dead, The; Nightmares FOR THE 'MOUCHE', by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had a dream. It was a summer's night Last Line: And I awoke at last in desperation. Subject(s): Dreams; Magic; Mythology; Religion; Statues; Nightmares; Theology FOR THE SLEEPWALKERS, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight I want to say something wonderful Subject(s): Dreams; Sleepwalking; Nightmares FORGOTTEN, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: France, you laugh too much, it seems. War will come to end your dreams Last Line: France! You laugh too much, it seems. War will come to end your dreams. Subject(s): Dreams; France; War; Nightmares FOUR DREAMS SONGS, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The greens of the ganges delta foliate Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares FOUR QUESTIONS REGARDING THE DREAMS OF ANIMALS, by SUSAN STEWART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is true, for the spaces of night surround them with shape and purpose, Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Nightmares FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: MURDERER'S HAUNTED COUCH, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So buckled tight in scaly resolution Last Line: I will no more. Subject(s): Conscience; Curses; Death; Dreams; Ghosts; Murder; Punishment; Revenge; Sleep; Supernatural; Dead, The; Nightmares FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: SLEEPER'S COUNTENANCE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There smiles methinks Last Line: And half-forgotten times. Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Sleep; Nightmares FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: SORROW, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sorrow! Hast thou seen sorrow asleep Last Line: Off her warm neck. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Grief; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness FRAGOLETTA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O love! What shall be said of thee? Last Line: The feet of love. Subject(s): Dreams; Love - Nature Of; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess); Nightmares FRIDAY NIGHT, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Friday night! Come draw the curtain Last Line: On this peaceful sabbath night. Subject(s): Dreams; Jews; Night; Sabbath; Shadows; Nightmares; Judaism; Bedtime; Sunday FROM BAD DREAMS, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why do we turn in our beds Last Line: The retreating tail of tye monster winking and flashing Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares FROM SAGESSE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slumber dark and deep Last Line: Silence, like the grave. Subject(s): Dreams; Rest; Silence; Sleep; Nightmares FROM THE EAST TO THE WEST, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Returning from what other seas Last Line: Awake among the gossamers! Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Nightmares FROM THE HILLS OF DREAM, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across the silent stream Last Line: On the hills of dream. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Dead, The; Nightmares FULFILMENT, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This was my dream in may-to have one Last Line: One golden bud -- a star -- smiles o'er the hill! Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares GEO-BESTIARY: 18, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was commanded, in a dream naturally Last Line: 33. We'll all see god but not with our eyes Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Dreams; Epitaphs; Nightmares GEO-BESTIARY: 30, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How much better these actual dreams Last Line: He's never heard except in the pulse of dreams. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Dreams; Hope; Nightmares; Optimism GEORGE DU MAURIER, by ARTHUR KETCHUM Poem Text First Line: Ah, if we only knew!' he said Last Line: The land where all the dreams are true. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 17, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wrangled in dream with the emperor thus Last Line: "o emperor, come thou quickly!" Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Dreams; Germany; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Nightmares; Germans GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 7, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I homeward went, and as soundly I slept Last Line: And I awoke from my slumbers. Subject(s): Dreams; Germany; Hearts; Sleep; Nightmares; Germans GESTURE, by ELISABETH CLARKE Poem Text First Line: I clamored for a star Last Line: Lord, let me grow! I prayed. Subject(s): Dreams; Stars; Nightmares GHAZALS: 1, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unbind my hair, she says. The night is white and warm Last Line: And a new sun to guide us, a holy book, tracked in new blood. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Dreams; Imaginary Conversations; Music & Musicians; Night; Nightmares; Bedtime GHAZALS: 16, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is an hour before dawn and even prophets sleep Last Line: Geometric convulsions, no doubt her civic theater experience. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Dreams; Travel; Nightmares; Journeys; Trips GHAZALS: 17, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O atlanta, roseate dawn, the clodhoppers, hillbillies rednecks Last Line: 150 lbs. I weigh 200 and was not allowed into her blue fuck room. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Dreams; Hunting; Southern States; Nightmares; Hunters; South (u.s.) GHAZALS: 18, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I told the dark-haired girl to come down out of the apple Last Line: My brain. We'll go to judah to wait for the apocalypse. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Art & Artists; Dreams; Imaginary Conversations; Nightmares GHAZALS: 20, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some sort of rag of pure language, no dictums but a bell Last Line: Be needed, the sibyl will return as an undiscovered lover. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Despair; Dreams; Language; Travel; Nightmares; Words; Vocabulary; Journeys; Trips GHAZALS: 25, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O happy day! Said overpowered, had by it all and transfixed Last Line: Crying out for ice, release from time, for a cool spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Change; Dreams; Time; Nightmares GHAZALS: 34, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When she walked on her hands and knees in the arab Last Line: I see myself upside down clawing the floor. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Change; Dreams; Nightmares GHAZALS: 42, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: New music might, that sucks men down in howls Last Line: The drowned man's discovered scowling under the harbor's ice. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares GHAZALS: 57, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought it was night but found out the windows were painted Last Line: Were what I truly wanted. So much silence and so many words. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Dreams; Imaginary Conversations; Regret; Nightmares GHOST, by PAUL MARIANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After so much time you think Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares GHOSTS OF THE NEW WORLD, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are no ghosts, you say Last Line: Calls to the slumbering host. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Death; Dreams; Earth; Explorers; Ghosts; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Supernatural; Dead, The; Nightmares; World; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers GIVE US GREAT DREAMS, by MARIE LE NART Poem Text First Line: Give us great dreams, o god, while thou art giving Last Line: And faith to leave the ultimate with thee. Subject(s): Dreams; Faith; Nightmares; Belief; Creed GIVE YOUR WISH LIGHT, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By day and night dream about happy death, Last Line: As if sweet death were a whore? You are too proud Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Dead, The; Nightmares GLAMOUR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Was it in the misty twilight, or Last Line: My fancy, slowly slipping earthly anchor, sailed away? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Day; Dreams; Evening; Love; Nightmares; Sunset; Twilight GLENDEN'S DREAM, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, watcher, is it winter? Last Line: Unavenged the avengers fall! Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Dreams; Time; Nightmares GOD'S DREAM, by WILLIAM NORRIS BURR Poem Text First Line: The man's a dreamer!' good! That places him Last Line: Might speed the progress of his gracious dream! Subject(s): Dreams; God; Nightmares GOING AWAY ANY TIME SOON, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'll see you in my dreams she said Last Line: Puckered mists trash the hill ecstatic as lozenges Subject(s): Abandonment; Dreams; Desertion; Nightmares GOLDFISH BOWL, by ROSE ANDREWS Poem Text First Line: I dreamed one night the goldfish bowl Last Line: And then, of course, I woke. Subject(s): Dreams; Fish & Fishing; Nightmares; Anglers GOSPEL BANJO: HOMAGE TO LITTLE ROY LEWIS, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three days I lay with a fire under my skin, in the guest room Last Line: Which is the joy of waking on either side of the jordan. Subject(s): Banjos; Baptism; Dreams; Lewis, Little Roy; Musical Instruments; Prayer Meetings; Christenings; Nightmares GRANNIE'S DREAM: A TRUE INCIDENT, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the winter e'ening fire Last Line: "the dream ye tauld this nicht to me." Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Dreams; Grandchildren; Grandparents; Nightmares; Grandsons; Granddaughters; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers GREEN OF MILDEW AND OF VERDIGRIS, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Phosphor of night-cloud, old salt freighter Last Line: Very mouth, very window, very sky Subject(s): Discontent; Dreams; Love; Dissatisfaction; Nightmares GRIEF, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An ancient enemy have I Last Line: To conquer mine old enemy! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Enemies; Grief; Pain; Dead, The; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery HANNELE, by GERHART HAUPTMANN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Abide with us in mercy Last Line: Eia popeia, to heaven above. Subject(s): Child Psychology; Dreams; Poorhouses; Stepfathers; Nightmares; Workhouses HARLEM, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What happens to a dream deferred Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Variant Title(s): Dream Deferred;lenox Avenue Mural;harlem: 2;from Montage Of A Dream Deferred: Harlem (2) Subject(s): African Americans; Dreams; Gays & Lesbians; Men; Racism; Negroes; American Blacks; Nightmares; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry HASCHEESH, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stricken with dreams, I wandered through the night Last Line: Honey of paradise, black dew of hell! Subject(s): Dreams; Terror; Nightmares HASCHISCH, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behind the door, beyond the light Last Line: In that insomnia which is god. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares HE AND I, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just drifting on together Last Line: For the sky. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Happiness; July; Life; Love; Nightmares; Joy; Delight HEART'S COUNSEL, by HASSOLDT DAVIS Poem Text First Line: Look, lord judas, here, in the diligent brain Last Line: A cross's width between. Subject(s): Dishonor; Dreams; Jesus Christ; Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.); Tears; Nightmares HEARTH SONG, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before the hearth I dream of many things Last Line: Singing of summer, chanting soft of june. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Fireplaces; Life; Nature; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Nightmares; Songs HEAVEN'S GLORY SHONE WHERE HE WAS LAID, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Death - Children; Dreams; Death - Babies; Nightmares HERODIAS, SELECTION, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, for myself, myself I flower forlorn! Last Line: Its chill gems part at last. Subject(s): Dreams; Virginity; Youth; Nightmares; Vestals HEROIC LOVE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When our glowing dreams were dead Last Line: "love can never be till then." Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Dreams; Heroism; Hope; Love - Loss Of; Nightmares; Heroes; Heroines; Optimism HIS DREAM, by JOHN SUCKLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On a still, silent night, scarce could I number Last Line: And then---I awak'd. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares HIS DREAME, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamt, last night, thou didst transfuse Last Line: That has not bread, and some to spare. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares HIS ROOM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm home again, my dear old room Last Line: Their sweethearts' and talk love to you. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Absence; Dreams; Memory; Rooms; Separation; Isolation; Nightmares HOMELESS MEN, by KATHERINE GUNN DAME Poem Text First Line: It is night / warm fires glow within Last Line: Tramping an unfriendly street. Subject(s): Dreams; Homeless; Life; Wandering & Wanderers; Nightmares; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes HOPE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hope, bending o'er me one time, snowed the flakes Last Line: "what makes my little girl so sad to-night?" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Hope; Kisses; Nightmares; Optimism HORSE (2), by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What if it were our privilege Last Line: Around, under the ground? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dreams; Horses; Dead, The; Nightmares HORSE IN THE CAGE, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Its face, as long as an arm, looks down & down. Subject(s): Horses; Fathers; Dreams; Nightmares HORTENSE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once I thought each kiss a woman Last Line: Our passing fondness ended. Subject(s): Dreams; Kisses; Life; Love; Nightmares HOT WEATHER IMAGININGS, by T. R. Poem Text First Line: I feigned a fountain, mossy-lipped Last Line: There never came a breeze!) Subject(s): Dreams; Heat; Mirages; Nightmares HOUSES OF DREAMS, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You took my empty dreams Last Line: And nothing now to do. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares HOW THE SESTINA (YAWN) WORKS, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I opened this poem with a yawn Last Line: I choose all of you for my poem personally Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares HOW WE WENT OUT, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: She wore five skirts, he wore two hats Last Line: A yellow angel, but disguised. Subject(s): Disasters; Dreams; San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906); Smoke; Nightmares HUNTING, HOPING, FINDING, by JAMES LARKIN Poem Text First Line: The room is dark, the air is heavy Last Line: And I'll go west with the rest. Subject(s): Despair; Dreams; Hope; Love; Nightmares; Optimism HUSH!, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: To music we listen Last Line: Sung there. Subject(s): Dreams; Music & Musicians; Nature; Truth; Youth; Nightmares I AM ONLY DREAMING, DREAMING, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Golden hair and laughing eyes Last Line: Through my study door. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares I DEFINE THE DARKNESS CORRECT: JOY'S THE AIM, by ELENI SIKELIANOS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man was leading us through trees. We saw darkness in the Last Line: Relations; ... Then, & I was young: ... Suddenly. Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Youth; Nightmares; Bedtime I DREAM, by PAUL ELDRIDGE Poem Text First Line: Life gallops by like a mad horse Last Line: I dream of her dead eyes. ... Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares I DREAM, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, I have dreams. I sometimes dream of life Last Line: This is my dream of death. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Graves; Life; Love; Soul; Dead, The; Nightmares; Tombs; Tombstones I DREAM I'M LEAVING, by MARGARET AHO Poem Text First Line: An island Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Childhood; Nightmares I DREAM OF LESLIE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You entered my sleep Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares I DUE SOGNI AD OCCHI APERTI: TWO DREAMS WITH EYES WIDE OPEN, by JESSE LEE KERCHEVAL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The first dream with open eyes Subject(s): Cruelty; Dreams; Motion Pictures; Rome, Italy; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Movies; Cinema; Songs I FIGHT AGAINST YOU, by ANNA ELISABETH MATHIEU DE NOAILLES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I fight against you while I am awake Last Line: It is on waking that I cease to be. Alternate Author Name(s): Brancovan, Princess Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Memory; Sleep; Nightmares I HAD FORGOTTEN, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had forgotten she was dead, though once I had loved her Last Line: Shall I never age? Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Love; Memory; Dead, The; Nightmares I HARDLY DREAM OF ANYONE WHO IS STILL ALIVE, by PETER DAVISON Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Red auerbach fumed into my sleep last night Subject(s): Dreams; Death; Nightmares; Dead, The I HOLD A DREAM FOR YOU, by MERRILL ARTHUR YOTHERS Poem Text First Line: I hold a dream for you, born one sweet spring Last Line: Dreams and the souls that know them are as dust! Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares I'D GIVE YOU MY SEAT IF I WERE HERE, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shadows these flowers are making on each other Last Line: And you know and you know. Subject(s): Dreams; Funerals - At Sea; Graves; Nightmares; Burials At Sea; Tombs; Tombstones IDLE, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the gay spring coming Last Line: A-dreaming idle dreams. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares IDYLL, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Sweet hour of night, within thy solitude Last Line: From o'er the waves of future heritages. Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Passion; Nightmares IF, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twixt what thou art, and what thou wouldst be, let Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Islands; Life; Love; Winter; Nightmares IF I AM SITTING CLOSE TO YOU, by JESSIE DOWNS BELKNAP Poem Text First Line: The dreams I dream will all come true Last Line: If I am sitting close to you. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares IF ONLY THE DREAMS ABIDE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If the things of earth must pass Last Line: If only the dreams abide. Subject(s): Change; Dreams; Grief; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness ILIA'S DREAM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "then startled from her sleep, she spoke" Last Line: "until my sleep departed -- and, oh! My heart was sore" Subject(s): Dreams;sisters;sleep;tears; Nightmares ILLUMINATION, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I dreamed of you. I thought you came Last Line: "we both should cry, ""I dreamed a dream last night!" Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Happiness; Sleep; Nightmares; Joy; Delight ILLUSION, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the golden corn is bending Last Line: That my dream was false and vain! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Dreams; Hallucinations And Illusions; Snow; Soul; Nightmares IMAGES OF MY DREAMS, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: The wooded hill overshades the river's placid brim and in its tranquil Last Line: Cloud-wrack grim. . . . And still more images will come, alas, to die! Subject(s): Dreams; Sailing & Sailors; Nightmares; Seamen; Sails IMAGES OF OUR DREAMS, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: The wooded hill slopes down even unto the Last Line: Ah for our dreams that rise and perish evermore! Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Eyes; Dead, The; Nightmares IMAGINATION, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rich raptures, you say, our dreams assume Last Line: "and fondly believes that his thoughts are ""vast""!" Subject(s): Dreams; Imagination; Reason; Thought; Nightmares; Fancy; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Thinking IMITATIONS OF SHAKESPEARE: PROGNE'S DREAM, by JOHN ARMSTRONG Poem Text First Line: Last night I dreamt Last Line: And with the struggling waked. Subject(s): Dramatists; Dreams; Mythology - Greek; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Nightmares; Dramatists IMPLORA PACE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The clouds that stoop from yonder sky Last Line: But freedom for our task divine. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Dreams; Freedom; Love; Nightmares; Liberty IN A DREAM, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A vacuum cleaner held over my head Last Line: With my satellite heart, brain, bones and blood Subject(s): Dreams; Vacuum Cleaners; Death; Nightmares; Dead, The IN ANDELYS: HAVE I LEISURE TO DEVOTE MYSELF TO POESY?: 16, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: To see and know absorbs the whole of life's domain. Have I leisure Last Line: To poesy? The wish to see and know will have laid waste my life. Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Nightmares IN ANDELYS: ON THE BANK OF THE SEINE: 5, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: A heaven confused pours forth these feeble twilight glows. Fairer Last Line: River slow that lulls great, golden nenuphars. Subject(s): Dreams; Heaven; Love; Seine (river), France; Nightmares; Paradise IN ANDELYS: TO THE MOST BEAUTIFUL LIGHT: 10, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Fair evening longed for birth, the firmament was pure. Life and the Last Line: Wandered a fine, clear moon, white as a dreaming soul. Subject(s): Dreams; Heaven; Life; Nightmares; Paradise IN AUTUMN TONES, by MARGARET PERKINS BRIGGS Poem Text First Line: They have not seen beyond their garden wall Last Line: Strange winds begrudge the gleaner's ancient share. Subject(s): Dreams; Evening; Gardens & Gardening; Ghosts; Harvest; Supernatural; Nightmares; Sunset; Twilight IN CHRISTMAS LAND, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In the beams and gleams came the christmas dreams Last Line: To the homes and hearts of you! Subject(s): Children;christmas;dreams;parades;soldiers; "childhood;nativity, The;nightmares; IN DREAMLAND, by VIRGINIA ABEL Poem Text First Line: Some fine sunny day Last Line: On a bright shooting star. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares IN DREAMS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My love, my love, when falls the summer rain Last Line: And bind with thee the ripe and shining sheaves. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Summer; Nightmares IN DREAMS, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In dreams the exile cometh home Last Line: In dreams alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Dreams; Exiles; Nightmares IN FRANCE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The silence of maternal hills Last Line: And there I wander as I will. Subject(s): Dreams; France; Nightmares IN ITALY, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear lillian, all I wished is won! Last Line: Lies in the heart which mine hath won! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Dreams; Italy; Love; Memory; Nightmares; Italians IN MY DREAMS, by ANNIE ELIZABETH LOOMIS Poem Text First Line: In that far off, mysterious realm which we call dreamland Last Line: Oh, blessed night, when I can sleep -- and dream -- and see! Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Life; Sleep; Nightmares IN MY HAMMOCK, by LAURA VANDIVIER Poem Text First Line: After the busy day has ended Last Line: I'm dreaming dreams. Subject(s): Dreams; Hammocks; Nightmares IN MY VINEYARD, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At last the dream that clad the field Last Line: A fresher light of glory! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Dreams; Soul; Vines And Vineyards; Nightmares IN MY WINDOW-SEAT, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am sitting in my window-seat Last Line: And the world is very still. Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Rest; Shadows; Silence; Sleep; Nightmares; Bedtime IN NEW YORK: 3. WEARINESS, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sometimes think thou art my secret love Last Line: Then give, beseech thee, give me sleep. Subject(s): Dreams; Kisses; Life; Love; New York City; Nightmares; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple IN SLEEP, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not drowsihood and dreams and mere idless Last Line: Rises a greatheart where a slave lay down. Subject(s): Dreams; God; Past; Sleep; Soul; Nightmares IN SLUMBERLAND, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where is the road to slumberland? Last Line: While you are king in slumberland. Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares IN THE DARK, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the dark I lie and think Last Line: When these eyes no longer see. Subject(s): Dreams; Nature; Nightmares IN THE GRASS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am one with waving things Last Line: I am one with waving things. Subject(s): Dreams; Grass; Snow; Soul; Nightmares IN THE NURSERY, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where do you go, bob, when you're fast asleep? Last Line: Perhaps -- we'll see.' Subject(s): Dreams; Heaven; Night; Orchards; Nightmares; Paradise; Bedtime IN TIME OF FAMINE, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She has no heart,' they said, and turned away Last Line: "to hear her brave sad laughter in the air." Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Famine; Life; Dead, The; Nightmares IN TUSCANY: DREAM-LAND, by CORA RANDALL FABBRI Poem Text First Line: Once in a dream Last Line: Once in a dream. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares IN WHITE CITY, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My thoughts turn south Variant Title(s): A White City Subject(s): Dreams; Snow; Nightmares INAPPROPRIATE DREAMS, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares INCOMPLETENESS, by DORIS ELFRIDA ESTCOURT Poem Text First Line: Through the clean silence of the wakening / day Last Line: We glimpse it, but it melts to mist again. Subject(s): Dreams; Shadows; Nightmares INSIDE EYES, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I am fast asleep at night Last Line: That waking up must be a dream! Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Sleep; Childhood; Nightmares INTERIM: 9, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are poor spendthrifts, scattering gold youth Last Line: With terrible triumph over our hope and dream. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Old Age; Nightmares INTO THE SHADOW, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Back again into the shadow-after the sun! Last Line: But the gradual gloom grows less as god's daylight breaks afar. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Shadows; Nightmares; Bedtime INTRUSION, by DOROTHEA GOODTIME Poem Text First Line: Caught in the web of a leafless tree Last Line: I sought seclusion once again. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares INVOCATION, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spirits! Intelligences! Passions! Dreams! Last Line: Who would not give his life for such a death? Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Life; Muses; Praise; Dead, The; Nightmares IRELAND - 1915, by BRUCE PORTER Poem Text First Line: I could not sleep the night Last Line: You are grown old with dreaming. Subject(s): Dreams; Ireland; Nightmares; Irish IRRADIATIONS: 1, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The spattering of the rain upon pale terraces Last Line: Towards the sunset beyond the broken doors of to-day. Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Rain; Roses; Nightmares IS IT DONE?, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is done! In the fire's fitful flashes Last Line: Will dream they are playing their parts. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Fire; Happiness; Hearts; Hope; Kisses; Pain; Nightmares; Joy; Delight; Optimism; Suffering; Misery IS LIFE JUST A DREAM, by EMERSON KROPF Poem Text First Line: I wonder if life is a dream! Last Line: I wonder if life is a dream! Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares ISLA MUJERES, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shoal we saw from the boat was fish; Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Dreams; Isla Mujeres, Mexico; Anglers; Nightmares ISOBEL'S CHILD, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To rest the weary nurse has gone Last Line: In his broad, loving will. Subject(s): Death - Children; Dreams; Women; Heaven; Mothers; Longing; Death - Babies; Nightmares; Paradise ISOLATE, by PORTIA MARTIN Poem Text First Line: I looked out over the ocean Last Line: And watched it disappear. Subject(s): Dreams; Letters; Sea; Nightmares; Ocean IT SOUNDS IT, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You & I out of all dreaming Last Line: This scheme Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Sleep; Thought; Nightmares; Thinking IT WAS A DREAM, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In which my greater self Last Line: This. This. This. Subject(s): Dreams; Self; Nightmares JEWELS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Twice in one hour I've seen this lovely night Last Line: Still call on night to see my wasted time. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Dreams; Poetry & Poets; Nightmares JOHN-JOHN, by THOMAS MACDONAGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamt last night of you, john-john Last Line: And that's my prayer. Alternate Author Name(s): Macdonough, Thomas Subject(s): Absence; Dreams; Love - Marital; Separation; Isolation; Nightmares; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love JOURNEYS, by AGNES MACCARTHY HICKEY Poem Text First Line: Not the speediest of coaches Last Line: And they not know! Subject(s): Dreams; Labor & Laborers; Sewing; Travel; Nightmares; Work; Workers; Journeys; Trips KING ARTHUR, OR THE BRITISH WORTHY: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've had today a dozen billet-doux Last Line: Shall be my favourite gallant to-day. Subject(s): Dreams; Faith; Marriage; Opera; Nightmares; Belief; Creed; Weddings; Husbands; Wives KING HAROLD HARFAGAR, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The great king harold harfagar Last Line: With loving kisses replying. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Dreams; Kisses; Love; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Nightmares KRISTIN'S DREAM IN NOVEMBER, by BERNADETTE MAYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went thru the turnstyle to the party Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares KUBLA KHAN, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In xanadu did kubla khan / a stately pleasure dome decree Last Line: And drunk the milk of paradise. Variant Title(s): Romance;the Sacred River Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Dreams; Heaven; Kubla Khan (1214-1294); Mysticism; Nightmares; Paradise LADY MONTREVOR (SEE MATURIN'S 'WILD IRISH BOY'), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not look for love that is a dream Last Line: No man shall mock me after this my day. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Love; Seasons; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness LAND O' DREAMS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's over the mountains, a million miles, it's Last Line: Dreams come true. Subject(s): Dreams; Travel; Nightmares; Journeys; Trips LARGESSE, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Dreams; Rain; Grief; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness LAST EVE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last eve as I leaned from my lattice, looked out / at the night Last Line: Let go! Get back to your graves, you have fought and have failed. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Dreams; Hope; Nightmares; Optimism LAST NIGHT I DREAMED OF CHICKENS, by JACK PRELUTSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Dreams; Chickens; Nightmares LATE NIGHT DREAM MOVIES; TO CHRISTOPHER TOLL, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The war beneath the seas / is quiet Last Line: That's an honest word. Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares LATE OCTOBER, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Midnight. The cats under the open window Last Line: On end, afraid of what I might do next. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dreams; October; Violence; Nightmares LAUGHTER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within the coziest corner of my Last Line: His hair a raveled nimbus of gray gold. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Laughter; Time; Nightmares LEARNING THE AUTO, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm learning the automobile; as, trembling, I Last Line: "oats!" Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Dreams; Nightmares LEAVES, SHADOWS, AND DREAMS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen all things pass and all men go Last Line: Grey shadows in the grass. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Gray (color); Green (color); Leaves; Shadows; Dead, The; Nightmares; Grey (color) LEFT IN LIFE: 2, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is a dream. What then? Are dreams untrue? Last Line: Pleased with the folly of thy straining hands. Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Love - Complaints; Passion; Solitude; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness LES ETOILES, by MILDRED POTTER Poem Text First Line: Last night / I reached out the window Last Line: I dreamed of you! Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares LET ME GO DOWN TO DUST, by LEW SARETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let me go down to dust and dreams Last Line: Gives its worn body back to earth again. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Dust; Night; Dead, The; Nightmares; Bedtime LET ME NOT LOSES MY DREAM, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me not lose my dream, e'en though I scan the veil with eyes unseeing ... Last Line: Hold me, and guard, lest anguish tear my dreams away! Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares LET THEM GO, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let the dream go. Are there not other dreams Last Line: Let the love die! Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Love; Night; Vision; Dead, The; Nightmares; Bedtime LET'S DREAM, by MARCELLA DARLING MILBURN Poem Text First Line: Let's dream today Last Line: And wild geese call. Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares LETTER FROM AN INSTITUTION, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ward beds float like ghost ships Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals; Dreams; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums; Nightmares LETTER TO THE FRONT: 5, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Much later, I lie in a white seaport night Subject(s): Dreams; Peace; Nightmares LEUDEMANN'S-ON-THE-RIVER, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Toward even when the day leans down Last Line: To leudemann's-on-the-river. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): August; Dreams; Life; Night; Summer; Nightmares; Bedtime LIFE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "a busy dream, forgotten ere it fades" Last Line: So we in iron selfishness stand strong Subject(s): Dreams;life;old Age;time; Nightmares LIGHT BLUE, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The white clothes on the line put the man to sleep. Subject(s): Dreams; Relationships; Nightmares LIGHTNING OF THE ABYSS, by JULES LAFORGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was on a tower in the midst of the stars Last Line: Ah, to become nothing again, irrevocably spent! Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares LIKE ROUSSEAU, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She stands beside me, stands away, Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares LILAC BLOOMS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Sweet was the kiss of the singing breeze Last Line: Content to dream. Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Lilacs; Poetry & Poets; Nightmares LILIES IN THEIR ARMS, by HAZEL S. MARSHALL Poem Text First Line: There will be brides in june-time; they will go Last Line: Remember brides are tender, fragile things. Subject(s): Brides; Dreams; Flowers; June; Lilies; Nightmares LIMITLESS OUT OF THE DUSK, by BROTHER CLEMENT Poem Text First Line: There are lightly moving rivers Last Line: Of the world come home. Subject(s): Dreams; Dusk; Rivers; Nightmares LINES; TO ONE WHO WISHED TO READ A POEM I HAD WRITTEN, by ANNE CHARLOTTE LYNCH BOTTA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, read it not, thou wouldst not know Last Line: Thy would not speak of me. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Dreams; Hearts; Nightmares LITTLE GIRLY-GIRL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little girly-girl, of you Last Line: "calling, ""little girly-girl!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Girls; Love; Memory; Nightmares LITTLE JOHNTS'S CHRIS'MUS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We got it up a-purpose, jes' fer little johnts, you know Last Line: "a-cryin' 'cause I watched you all, an' knowed it all the time!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Christmas; Dreams; Fairy Tales; Nativity, The; Nightmares LITTLE TOWN, by HAROLD H. KENISTON Poem Text First Line: I hope some day to settle down Last Line: When my time comes to settle down. Subject(s): Dreams; Rivers; Towns; Nightmares LIVE IT THROUGH, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamt a huge liner stood in the desert, its crew leaning Last Line: Live it through Subject(s): Deserts; Dreams; Ships & Shipping; Nightmares LONGING, by HELEN KNIGHT GOODING Poem Text First Line: A crescent moon, the morning star, and sunrise in the sky Last Line: —helen knight gooding, rapid city Subject(s): Absence; Dreams; Separation; Isolation; Nightmares LONGING, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: At last the sunset and the quietness Last Line: And then, together, home. Subject(s): Dreams; Longing; Love; Peace; Tears; Nightmares LOST BABIES, by ROSA MULHOLLAND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The lake's a lake of purple wine Last Line: "until they come, bide close to me!" Alternate Author Name(s): Gilbert, Lady Subject(s): Babies; Dreams; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Infants; Nightmares; Virgin Mary LOST DREAMS, by CHARLES FRANKLIN HARRISON Poem Text First Line: I notice, as I pass them on the street Last Line: Of people anywhere: their dreams are dead. Subject(s): Despair; Dreams; Nightmares LOVE IN DREAMS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lie on my pallet bed Last Line: And made again in a dream. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares LOVE IN JAPAN, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The semi is silent Last Line: Eater of dreams! Subject(s): Dreams; Japan; Love; Tears; Nightmares; Japanese LOVE IN OLD MEXICO, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed of ships sailing across the sun Last Line: And thro' them all there gleamed the face of you. Subject(s): Dreams; Mexico; Ships & Shipping; Nightmares LOVE IN THE DAWN, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dawn, with hallowed flame, seemed to sing your name Last Line: Dawn again, dawn again, dawn again—with you! Subject(s): Dreams; Happiness; Love; Sympathy; Togetherness; Nightmares; Joy; Delight; Empathy LOVE'S ADVENT, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Passing the world's loud workshop, lo, within Last Line: "the world from woe!"" -- alas, how vain the dream!" Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Love; Time; Dead, The; Nightmares LOVE'S BURIAL, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let us clear a little space Last Line: We will walk a separate way. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Funerals; Love; Tears; Dead, The; Nightmares; Burials LOVE'S HUMILITIES, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To think of thee, to think of thee! Last Line: O sweet, suffice it thee! Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Hearts; Love; Nightmares LOVE'S MESSAGE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Far out in love's dreamland a bird doth sing Last Line: With the gentle touch of an angel's wing. Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Passion; Nightmares LOVE'S NOCTURN, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Master of the murmuring courts Last Line: In her name implor'd, o hear! Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Nightmares LOVE-JOY, LOVE-SORROW, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A thousand lilies, a thousand pinks Last Line: Like clouds in the wind it vanisheth. Subject(s): Dreams; Happiness; Life; Love; Nightmares; Joy; Delight LULLABY, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, brown-eyed, sleep Last Line: The dew, only the dew. Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares LUNAR BAEDEKER, by MINA LOY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A silver lucifer Last Line: Waxes and wanes Alternate Author Name(s): Cravan, Arthur, Mrs.; Lowy, Mina Gertrude; Haweis, Stephen, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Nightmares; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin LUNAR RAINBOW, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moon spreads a rainbow fan Last Line: The star holding a mirror to her eyes? Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares LYCANTHROPY REVISITED, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When it is truly the moon that he sees Subject(s): Werewolves; Dreams; Nightmares LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 42, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Many visions of times long vanish'd Last Line: Stand fix'd, the image of woe. Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Silence; Nightmares LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 46, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The child of a king in dream have I seen Last Line: "to thy loving caresses replying." Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Love; Childhood; Nightmares LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 57, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamt once more the vision of yore Last Line: But the biting was rather too spiteful! Subject(s): Dreams; Heaven; Kisses; Love - Complaints; Nightmares; Paradise LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 59, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My carriage is traversing slowly Last Line: They titter and haste swiftly by. Subject(s): Dreams; Magic; Nightmares LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 60, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In vision I lately was weeping Last Line: Continued to flow as before. Subject(s): Dreams; Graves; Love; Tears; Nightmares; Tombs; Tombstones LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 65, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dream-god brought me to a castle vast Last Line: Blended with sternness, I awoke from sleep. Subject(s): Castles; Dreams; Fantasy; Grief; Love; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 69, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night lay upon mine eyelids Last Line: And lo! -- from sleep I woke. Subject(s): Dreams; Eyes; Graves; Hair; Night; Nightmares; Tombs; Tombstones; Bedtime LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 70, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The numbers old and evil Last Line: And in it placed my love. Subject(s): Coffins; Dreams; Grief; Love; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 9, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On song's exulting pinion Last Line: Of blissful visions we'll dream. Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Love; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Songs MAGGIORE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Friend, rest awhile upon thy glistening oars Last Line: And let us drift and dream! Subject(s): Dreams; Italy; Nightmares; Italians MARCH DAYS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world to-day is a nun in gray Last Line: And april airs be here! Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Lakes; March (month); Spring; Nightmares; World; Pools; Ponds MARIANNE'S DREAM, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A pale dream came to a lady fair Last Line: As any waking eyes can view. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares MARK TWAIN: A PIPE DREAM, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well I recall how first I met Last Line: Then heaven will be heaven indeed. Subject(s): Dreams; Smoking; Twain, Mark (samuel Langhorne Clemens); Nightmares; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes MARTINIQUE, by CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER Poem Text First Line: Great cone-shaped mountains rising from a stream Last Line: Trailed on the wind the spice of carib seas? Subject(s): Dreams; Islands; Nightmares MARY BURKE, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: Och! Shure 'tis well I mind the day Last Line: Mary burke—mary burke! Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Dreams; Heaven; Love; Death - Babies; Nightmares; Paradise MAURINE: PART 3, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One golden twelfth part of a checkered year Last Line: That only he who watched with sorrow knows. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Kisses; Lakes; Love; Rowing; Women; Nightmares; Pools; Ponds MAURINE: PART 6, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a week of bustle and of hurry Last Line: Should yield me golden fruit for all my toil. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Love; Soul; Women; Dead, The; Nightmares MEMORIALS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the shining river's brim Last Line: The well-sweep and the ruined wall. Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Memory; Past; Rivers; Nightmares MEMORY AND HOPE, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back-looking memory Last Line: To 'reach the things before.' Subject(s): Memory; Hope; Dreams; Optimism; Nightmares MENDED DREAMS, by ADALINE H. TATMAN Poem Text First Line: I have toiled and toiled at my clumsy loom Last Line: Than are new ones lusterless, soulless, dead. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares METAPHYSIC, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Dearie I! When I up and follows Last Line: And many a turnip-load! Subject(s): Dreams; Roads; Wind; Nightmares; Paths; Trails METEMPSYCHOSIS OF THE PINE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As when the haze of some wan moonlight makes Last Line: The spirit of the pine. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Memory; Moon; Nature; Nightmares MIDLIGHT, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've dreamt an elopement. And I've dreamt Subject(s): Dreams; Elopements; Mothers; Nightmares MIDNIGHT AT THE MILL, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once an angel came and said Last Line: "and I would lovely be!" Subject(s): Angels; Dreams; Murder; Nightmares MIDSUMMER'S NIGHT, by MIRIAM OTT MUNSON Poem Text First Line: The calm moon lays her fingers chaste and cool Last Line: Beneath the soft rays of the moon's still light. Subject(s): Dreams; Moon; Night; Sleep; Summer; Nightmares; Bedtime MIGHTY THINGS, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Iron, steel, and granite rock are Last Line: And god's dream made the earth and us and every rolling star. Subject(s): Dreams; January; Nightmares MILTON'S SPIRIT, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed that milton's spirit rose, and took Last Line: Prisons and citadels. Subject(s): Dreams; Milton, John (1608-1674); Nightmares MIND FLYING AFAR, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What a moment of strange dreaming! Quickly Subject(s): Landor, Walter Savage (1775-1864); Dreams; Nightmares MINIVER CHEEVY, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Miniver cheevy, child of scorn / grew lean while he assailed the seasons Last Line: And kept on drinking. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Dreams; Drinks & Drinking; Men; Nostalgia; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Nightmares; Wine MINUTES, by JERRY BROOKS Poem Text First Line: Swiftly - how swiftly they pass! Last Line: Tis gone, on silvery wing! Subject(s): Dreams; Time; Nightmares MIR TRAUMTE WIEDER DER ALTE TRAUM, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The old dream comes again to me Last Line: Superfluous was the bite. Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Love; Nightmares MIRACLES, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamt I saw a huge grey boat in silence streaming Last Line: And when I woke I wondered where on earth I'd been. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares MIRAGES, by ARLEN OBERSON Poem Text First Line: Forests may glow like a wave of fire Last Line: Until they come true. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares MISS KILMANSEGG AND HER PRECIOUS LEG: HER DREAM, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Miss kilmansegg took off her leg Last Line: She was turn'd to a golden idol? Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares MISSY 1966-1971, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want to be worthy of this waking dream Last Line: Bound. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Dreams; Loss; Memory; Nightmares MONICA PEVERIL TURNBULL, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more wild march, her mantle shaken Last Line: "for new buds' swelling." Subject(s): Death; Dreams; March (month); Soul; Tears; Dead, The; Nightmares MONOTROPA, by ROSE TERRY COOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Loves serene, uncarnate graces! Last Line: Cease thyself, vain rhythmic sound! Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Love; Soul; Nightmares MONTEFIORE, by AMBROSE BIERCE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I saw - 'twas in a dream, the other night Last Line: And in a moment was a lonely man! Subject(s): Charity; Dreams; Jews; Montefiore, Moses Haim (1784-1885); Philanthropy; Nightmares; Judaism MOOD, by THEODORE ANTHONY STANFORD Poem Text First Line: To dream - and so to watch the wan moon glimmer Last Line: But only waste and molten sky and pain! Subject(s): Dreams; Insanity; Moon; Sea; Nightmares; Madness; Mental Illness; Ocean MOONLIGHT AND DREAMS, by JEANNETTE EUGENIE CUSHING Poem Text First Line: Oh moon, moon hanging in a high translucent sky Last Line: While over our dust the moon shall shine and loving vigil keep. Subject(s): Dreams; Moon; Nightmares MR. HAMMOND'S PARABLE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was a dreamer of the days Last Line: "he's studied out a patent churn!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Fables; Farm Life; Nightmares; Allegories; Agriculture; Farmers MUSIC'S ECHO, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In my ears it grew Last Line: Upon the breast of day. Subject(s): Dreams; Music & Musicians; Nightmares MY DREAM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I dreamed a dream next tuesday week Subject(s): Dreams;nonsense; Nightmares MY DREAM, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my dream, methought I trod Last Line: "fear not! He hath gone before!" Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares MY DREAM OF DREAMS, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alone within my house I sit Last Line: I hug my dream of dreams. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares MY DREAM SHIPS, by EDITH DAVIS ROWE Poem Text First Line: There are some of my ships that are still at sea Last Line: Awaiting the rise of the homeward breeze. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares MY DREAMS, by GEORGIA DAY SHERWOOD Poem Text First Line: My dreams are like unto the stars Last Line: Brings daily tasks on golden beams. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares MY FAMILIAR DREAM, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Often I have this dream, strange and penetrating Last Line: The tone of dear voices, those that have died Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Nightmares MY FATHER'S WATCH, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One night I dreamed I was locked in my father's watch Last Line: I saw my father's face frown through the glass Subject(s): Dreams; Fathers; Watches; Nightmares MY HEAVEN, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I had a dream, sweetheart, last night Last Line: The heaven in your love. Subject(s): Dreams; Future Life; Heaven; Love; Love - Nature Of; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise MY HOME; A DREAM, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have dreamt of a home - a happy home Last Line: Within that home -- I may not tell. Subject(s): Dreams; Home; Nightmares MY LADY IN THE FIRE-LIGHT, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I see the lady of my dreams Last Line: Which worships my sweet lady. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares MY LADY IS MY DREAM GIRL, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: My lady is my dream-girl Last Line: My lady's but a dream. Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Girls; Nightmares MY LITTLE DREAMS, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm folding up my little dreams Last Line: Tonight, within my heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Dreams; Nightmares MY OWN, by SYLVIA BING Poem Text First Line: Acrid fragrance of salt in the night air - Last Line: And the waves against the shore are droning -- droning -- Subject(s): Dreams; Sea; Nightmares; Ocean MY PERFECT NIGHT, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: First a tumble of clouds, muscular and black, full of noise Last Line: Looks deep and alive. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares MY PROLOGUE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If heat of youth, 'tis heat suppressed Last Line: It well may be; and they that read will know. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Praise; Youth; Nightmares MY SHATTERED DREAMS, by C. CELESTE DE SILVA Poem Text First Line: The dream of my life has been shattered Last Line: And god may there on them smile. Subject(s): Dreams; Pain; Tears; Nightmares; Suffering; Misery MY SHIP, by CONSTANCE V. FRAZIER Poem Text First Line: Out of the harbor at break of day Last Line: And sank in a sea of gleaming stars. Subject(s): Dreams; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Nightmares; Seamen; Sails NATURE'S WORD, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In holy moments, when great nature seems Last Line: Or where we know not, but we trust the word. Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Hearts; Nature; Nightmares; World NEST OF DREAMS, by HELEN FIELD WATSON Poem Text First Line: Sometimes one has a dream within a dream Last Line: And what, reality. Subject(s): Dreams; Reality; Nightmares NEW DREAMS FOR OLD, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: God, who through ages past Last Line: Give us new dreams for old! Subject(s): Dreams; Faith; Religion; Nightmares; Belief; Creed; Theology NEW DREAMS FOR OLD, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is there no voice in the world to come crying Last Line: New for old! Subject(s): Dreams; Voices; Nightmares NEW ENGLAND, AUTUMN, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our daughter dreamt of magnolias Last Line: I woke with a start as if we had set an alarm. Subject(s): Blood; Dreams; Family Life; New England; Nightmares; Relatives NEW MOON, by IDA B. BOTTS Poem Text First Line: I dreamed that cupid had lost his bow Last Line: And the bow was just the new moon! Subject(s): Dreams; Moon; Nightmares NEW YEAR'S EVE, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The other night I had a dream, most clear Last Line: My hand could feel your hand was warm, warm, warm! Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Dreams; Holidays; Memory; New Year; Nightmares NIGHT IN A GARDEN, by MARY MORRIS DUANE Poem Text First Line: The night is still Last Line: And life eternal springs. Subject(s): Birds; Dreams; Gardens & Gardening; Life; Night; Nightmares; Bedtime NIGHT OF SHADOWS, by CHARLES GUERIN Poem Text First Line: Night of shadows, tragic, helpless night! Last Line: The sleep of the conquered and the sleep of the dead. Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Shadows; Sleep; Stars; Nightmares; Bedtime NIGHT OFF GALLIPOLI: 1. A DELIRIOUS VOICE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweeter than sleep and the dream of death Last Line: Being rest. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Sea; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares; Ocean NIGHT OFF GALLIPOLI: 7. VOICE OF A FRENCH POET, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And so the songs must go unsung Last Line: And I am well content. Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Hearts; Singing & Singers; Nightmares NIGHTMARE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the blinds Last Line: Mercurous in the moon. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Change; Dreams; Fear; Nightmares NIGHTMARE OF A FRESHMAN SIGN SWIPER, by W. D. FLAGG Poem Text First Line: He turned and tossed upon his bed Last Line: "I say, 'do you wear pants?'" Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares NIGHTMARE, FR. IOLANTHE, by WILLIAM SCHWENCK GILBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you're lying awake with a dismal headache Last Line: Long—ditto ditto my song—and thank goodness they're both of them over! Alternate Author Name(s): Gilbert, W. S. Variant Title(s): Lord Chancellor's Song Subject(s): Dreams; Headaches; Nightmares NINE DREAM SONGS, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a motion of night they massed nearer my post Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares NIPPON, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night, I dreamed of nippon .... Last Line: When nippon isle was made. Subject(s): Dreams; Islands; Sea; Temples; Nightmares; Ocean; Mosques NISHA, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I fell asleep, / hearing melody Last Line: Fell asleep dreaming. Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares NOCTURNE, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dream you are the moon's most favoured child Last Line: The silences that brood around the stars. Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Night; Nightmares; Bedtime NOCTURNE, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: A face on sleep as easily intent Last Line: To thought alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Nightmares NOCTURNE IN A MINOR KEY, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will say: I walked alone in whistling darkness Last Line: The lover, ridiculous; the loved, sublime. Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Shadows; Sleep; Nightmares; Bedtime NOCTURNE IN ANJOU, by RICHARD HOVEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed of sappho on a summer night Last Line: "as one who dreams, ""I have forgotten them." Subject(s): Dreams; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Nightmares NORTH AND SOUTH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of the north I wove a dream Last Line: In the silence of the dream I found fulfilled. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Grapes; North, The; Southern States; Nightmares; South (u.s.) NOSTALGIA, by JOYCE CAROL OATES Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Crumbling stone steps of the old schoolhouse Subject(s): Dreams; Education; Memory; Schools; Nightmares; Students NOTHING LEFT BUT DREAMS, by MARTHA TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: The dreams of youth are dreams of hope Last Line: We've nothing left but dreams. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares NOTUS IGNOTO, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you sigh for the power you dream of Last Line: Are ever revealed! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Pride; Truth; Nightmares; Self-esteem; Self-respect NUBIA, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A land of dreams and sleep, a poppied land! Last Line: But she hath built an altar to repose. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Time; Nightmares O DREAM, WHERE ART THOU NOW?, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares O, THAT MY MUSE COULD TELL, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: When roused from sleep at night Last Line: When dawns the morning light! Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Sleep; Nightmares; Bedtime OCTOBER, 1973, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I dreamed I ran through the streets of new york Last Line: Brother? Brother? Subject(s): Chile; Dreams; Social Problems; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); Women; Women's Rights; Nightmares; Feminism ODE TO KEATS, 2, THE DREAM, by DIANE DI PRIMA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Hedged about as we are with prayers Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares ODE TO SLEEP, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O gentle, feather-footed sleep Last Line: Confounds pale, trembling catiline. Subject(s): Calm; Dreams; Forgetfulness; Rest; Sleep; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Nightmares OF SUCH AS THESE, by MARION L. BERTRAND Poem Text First Line: I close my eyes and I seem to see Last Line: The light that love is made of! Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares OLD BLACK MEN, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have dreamed as young black men dream Last Line: As though they did not care. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Old Age; African Americans; Dreams; Disappointment; African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks; Nightmares; Negroes; American Blacks OLD JOHN HENRY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old john's jes' made o' the commonest stuff Last Line: Old john henry! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Faces; Religion; Nightmares; Theology OLD WAR-DREAMS, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In midnight sleep of many a face of anguish Last Line: I dream, I dream, I dream. Subject(s): American Civil War; Dreams; United States - History; Nightmares OMEN, by ALICE DUPONT ORTIZ Poem Text First Line: I dreamed a dream, oh, sweetheart mine,'twas this Last Line: Twas hell, and you, god help me, were a fiend! Subject(s): Dreams; Hell; Nightmares ON A DREAM, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Vain dreams, forbear, ye but deceivers be Last Line: And both connex, as souls in innocence. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares ON A FLY-LEAF, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Singers there are of courtly Last Line: With the rights and the wrongs of all mankind. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Mankind; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Human Race ON DREAM WATER, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And so, o'er many a league of sea Last Line: O soul so often tried! Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares ON DREAMS, by SAMUEL EGERTON BRYDGES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O gentle sleep, come, wave thine opiate wing Last Line: While ye relume me with your nightly aid! Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares ON KILEY'S RUN, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The roving breezes come and go / on kiley's run Last Line: On kiley's run. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Flowers; Hearts; Life; Dead, The; Nightmares ON MY LATE DEAR WIFE, by JONATHAN RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: Adieu, dear life! Here am I left alone Last Line: When I but see the shadow of her shade. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Marriage; Dead, The; Nightmares; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ON THE DOWNS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Squeeze out the cowslip-wine and let me drink Last Line: My landscape; -- she is with me; -- I can die. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Drinks & Drinking; Orion (mythology); Silence; Dead, The; Nightmares; Wine ON THE LUTES OF FRANCE: A DREAM, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Some fair retirement where always Last Line: Some books with horace's fair lines. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Nightmares; Bedtime ON THE SOUTH COAST, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hills and valleys where april rallies his Last Line: Free by birth of a sacred earth, and regent ever of all the sea. Subject(s): Dreams; Nature; Sea; Spring; Time; Nightmares; Ocean ONCE IN A DREAM, by HAROLD VINAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once in a dream I wandered down a plain Last Line: Because of the white doves about her head. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares ONLY A DREAM, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Methought I saw thee yesternight Last Line: "I work for thee, my child." Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares ONLY ONE LOVE, by CLARA LUCINA WARNER Poem Text First Line: I saw her in my fancies' dream Last Line: Let her love brush away a false mood! Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Nightmares ONLY THE DREAM IS REAL, by ANDERSON M. SCRUGGS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Only the dream is real. There is no plan Last Line: And flesh and blood are dust, the dream lives on. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares ORLIE WILDE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A goddess, with a siren's grace Last Line: "as mine to her -- as mine to her." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Dreams; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Sea; Nightmares; Ocean OUR EUNUCH DREAMS, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our eunuch dreams, all seedless in the light, Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares OUR OLD VERMONT PARLOR-ROOM, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of tiptoeing through our parlor-room Last Line: I tiptoe fast away. Subject(s): Dreams; Vermont; Nightmares OUT FROM A DREAM, by ELLA ALLISON Poem Text First Line: Through the night a poet listened Last Line: In living words of light. Subject(s): Dreams; Poetry & Poets; Nightmares OUT OF EARTH, by FREDERICK R. MCCREARY Poem Text First Line: Pattern the clouds for a moment Last Line: A thorn in the heel of death. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Earth; Heaven; Hell; Nature; Dead, The; Nightmares; World; Paradise OUT OF THE SILENCE OF MY DREAMS, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hear a voice that speaks to me Last Line: Unto his heart and hand. Subject(s): Dreams; God; Nightmares OUTLET, by H. PAULINE ZEBO Poem Text First Line: Sometime when oft I revel Last Line: Lo! No escape. Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Sleep; Thought; Nightmares; Bedtime; Thinking OVER THE MOUNTAIN, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like dreary prison walls Last Line: O beating heart, be still! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Hearts; Mountains; Dead, The; Nightmares; Hills; Downs (great Britain) OVER THE WAY, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Over the way of your dreams, my boy Last Line: And the marvelous land of the ought-to-be. Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Heaven; Nightmares; Paradise PARADISE: IN A DREAM, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once in a dream I saw the flowers Last Line: And with my god. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Dreams; Heaven; Nightmares; Paradise PATCHWORK, by GLADYS VERVILLE DEANE Poem Text First Line: Into that deep that yields no bright return Last Line: While I sewed seams beneath the apple tree. Subject(s): Apples; Dreams; Fruit; Youth; Nightmares PEARL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "perle, plesaunte to prynces paye" Last Line: On that precios perle wythouten spot Subject(s): "consolation;dreams;innocence;redemption;richard Ii, King Of England (1367-1400);" Nightmares PEGASUS, by PIERRE LOUIS Poem Text First Line: His pure feet striking sparks of flint that rise Last Line: The white beast in forbidden heavens leap. Alternate Author Name(s): Louys, Pierre Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Horses; Orion (constellation); Soul; Nightmares PERHAPS THIS TIME, by IRIS LEE HAILE Poem Text First Line: My moons are made of green cheese Last Line: I'll keep my fingers crossed. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares PHILIP AND MILDRED, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lingering fade the rays of daylight, and the listening air is chilly Last Line: For on earth so much is needed, but in heaven love is all! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Love; Peace; Nightmares PHOSPHORESCENT SEA, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea scarce heaves in its calm sleep Last Line: Dim sea's on fire around our barque. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Sea; Sleep; Wind; Nightmares; Ocean PHYCHE'S DREAM, by ANN LAUTERBACH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If dreams could dream, beyond the canon of landscapes Subject(s): Dreams; Psyche (mythology); Nightmares PICTURES IN THE FIRE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is it you ask me, darling? Last Line: And the fire had died away. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Tears; Travel; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Journeys; Trips PILLAR WORK, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Among the flowers, the lily blooms supreme Last Line: Fell on their hearts, and heavenly release. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Dreams; Flowers; Hearts; Peace; Dead, The; Nightmares PIPE DREAMS: 1, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Admit me, wah, and light at least three lamps Last Line: Your shelter, wah, ere he could get me jailed! Subject(s): Dreams; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Nightmares PIPE DREAMS: 2, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Dreams are all right, wah kee, but nightmares Last Line: Beating all records to this safe retreat. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares PIPE DREAMS: 3, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: I must complain, wah kee. Your brand of hop Last Line: I say, wah kee, your hop's unfit to smoke! Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares PIPE DREAMS: 4, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Protect me, wah! I see three fearful fiends Last Line: Your young appendix, also all your wealth? Subject(s): Dreams; Physicians; Nightmares; Doctors PIPE DREAMS: 7, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Dreamed I was in dreamland. Say, wah kee Last Line: And there we'll rest in sweet atrocious ease! Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares PIPE DREAMS: 9, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Just boil the hop a little, will you wah? Last Line: And fix the yenhok for one glorious draw! Subject(s): Dreams; Hallucinations And Illusions; Nightmares PLAINT OF THE PINE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I found a pine that shot its solemn bole Last Line: "with a fear of the ocean, that knoweth not rest." Subject(s): Dreams; Pine Trees; Sea; Trees; Nightmares; Ocean PLEA FOR 'CASTLES IN THE AIR', by JACOB GOUGH Poem Text First Line: Amid the myriad troubles that meet us day by day Last Line: "for all are kings and conquerors in ""castles in the air." Subject(s): Castles; Dreams; Nightmares POETIC EPIGRAMS: 23. A BROOK IN WINTER, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strange as a frozen dream Last Line: Is this stilled winter stream. Subject(s): Brooks; Dreams; Winter; Streams; Creeks; Nightmares POETIC EPIGRAMS: 7. IN A CEMETERY AT NIGHT, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it ghost-dreams that rise Last Line: Or only the fire-flies? Subject(s): Cemeteries; Dreams; Graves; Night; Graveyards; Nightmares; Tombs; Tombstones; Bedtime POETS, by ELLA MOORE MARSHALL Poem Text First Line: We build a dream to justify Last Line: We build a dream! Subject(s): Dreams; Poetry & Poets; Nightmares POSTPONED NIGHTMARE, by SANDOR CSOORI Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm sitting in the sunshine Last Line: Your breath from down below, perhaps. Subject(s): Absence; Dreams; Grief; Loss; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Pain; Summer; Separation; Isolation; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations; Suffering; Misery PRAYER, by JOHN CHIPMAN FARRAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I crept across the snow Last Line: It could have been a christmas dream. Subject(s): Christmas; Dreams; Jesus Christ; Prayer; Nativity, The; Nightmares PRAYER FOR A DREAM, by JOHN C. ADLER Poem Text First Line: Hearty and hale and free Last Line: That inherits my dream! Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares PRELUDE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a grove of ilex Last Line: This is the gift of the flower of dream. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Hearts; Lilies; Love; Rome, Italy; Nightmares PREMONITION, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I dreamed Last Line: Had darkened while I slept! Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares PRIMITIVE, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A woman dreamed Subject(s): Dreams; Fear; Nightmares PROGRESS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it a wave we catch at Last Line: To voyage the universe? Subject(s): Dreams; Faith; Sea; Universe; Nightmares; Belief; Creed; Ocean PROPOSED PACT, by JESSIE FARNHAM Poem Text First Line: Last night, dear lord, he dreamed that he was tall Last Line: But give him back the dream that he was tall! Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares PRUFROCK IN WONDERLAND, by KENNETH REXROTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These sky-rocket etchings are my life Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares QUITE HIGH ENOUGH OR LOW...., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O singular perception of the light Last Line: Whose merest drop or two a dungeon fills! Subject(s): Dreams; Light; Love; Nightmares RATCLIFF, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dream-god brought me to a landscape fair Last Line: And through sheer terror I awoke from sleep. Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Flowers; Love; Tears; Nightmares RAVENESQUE, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamt a golden snake Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Religion; Snakes; Nightmares; Theology; Serpents; Vipers REALITY, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What things are real Last Line: Their silent company? Subject(s): Dreams; Reality; Nightmares RECONNAISSANCE, by EDNA BECKER Poem Text First Line: There lies the far horizon Last Line: To everyday? Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares REDUCTIO AD ABSURDUM BLUES, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the soldier he wants to be somewhere he once was Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Sailors & Sailing; Soldiers; War; Dreams; Nightmares RELATIVITY, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Only this at last I say Last Line: Distance is the breadth of the soul. Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Dreams; Life; Nightmares RELICS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This flower that smells of honey and the sea Last Line: Who knows but I what memories too take flight? Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Smells; Nightmares; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances REMINISCING, by CARMELITA A. LECLAIR Poem Text First Line: Into the cradle of my thoughts Last Line: While in my reminiscing spell. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares RENUNCIATION OF DREAMS AND SUCH, by MARY JO BANG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night you wandered in the wrong direction Last Line: For the treason of warmth Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares REPOSE OF THE SOUL IN THE WOOD OF L'HAUTIL: DREAM OF THE FIRST DAY, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Rest in the wood, my soul, on the past no longer brood, on that van Last Line: Proud. Rejoice, rejoice, my soul, one sees pissefontaine . . . Subject(s): Dreams; Forests; Soul; Nightmares; Woods REPUBLIC AND MOTHERLAND, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up the vast harbor with the morning sun Last Line: Thy mayflower crossed the sea. Subject(s): Dreams; Explorers; Nations; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Nightmares; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Ocean RESIGNATION, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sadder moments of a wearied hope Last Line: Into the calm majestic life of god. Subject(s): Dreams; God; Grief; Pain; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery RESPITE, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drowsing, the other afternoon, I lay Last Line: That now again beneath their lids are hot. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Mothers; Dead, The; Nightmares RETRIBUTION, by WILMA CRITTENDEN Poem Text First Line: I spilt my blood upon a battlefield Last Line: Behold the courage of the wandering jew! Subject(s): Dreams; Hate; Jews; Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.); Life; Nightmares; Judaism RETURNING DREAMS, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the lone silence of my later nights Last Line: For us to find, and feel that truth is there! Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares REUNION, by MARY WINTER WERE Poem Text First Line: When the red embers on the hearth glow bright Last Line: And I am free of earth, and earth's despair. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares REVELATION, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far down the moonlight dim of memory Last Line: That brings us life forever and forever. Subject(s): Dreams; God; Life; Memory; Soul; Nightmares REVERIE, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All around me, everywhere Last Line: "let thy soul be lost in prayer." Subject(s): Dreams; Wandering & Wanderers; Nightmares RHYME FOR REMEMBRANCE OF MAY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Remember may? / oh, till no more a color tincts the spray Last Line: May means remembering you! Subject(s): Dreams; Life; May (month); Memory; Rhyme; Nightmares RHYTHM, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, my fancy teems with a world of dreams Last Line: On the breath of my soul-strung lyre. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares RHYTHMS OF A MAIMED SPRINGTIME, by EUGENE JOLAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O mystery that weighs upon my soul! Why do the shadows stifle me? Last Line: Blast my thoughts that cling to the eternal grind! Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders; Dreams; Mystery; Spring; Enigmas; Oddities; Nightmares RIDDLES OF MERLIN, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I was walking / alone by the sea Last Line: "sunrise for west." Subject(s): Dreams; Riddles; Sea; Sun; Nightmares; Ocean RIO GRANDE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now this was what macpherson told Last Line: The race the dead men ride. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Horses; Racing; Rivers; Sleep; Nightmares RIOLAMA, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a land beyond the lands you know Last Line: My native land that I shall never know. Subject(s): Dreams; Forests; Love; Moon; Nightmares; Woods RIVER ELMS, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love to sleep out doors beneath an elm Last Line: An elm tree talked with god. Subject(s): Dreams; Rivers; Nightmares ROADSIDE POEMS: A DREAM OF WAKING, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A child was born in sin and shame Last Line: And melt the earthly dream. Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Grief; Mothers; Childhood; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness ROADSIDE POEMS: THE WAKEFUL SLEEPER, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When things are holding wonted pace Last Line: The child is with the father. Subject(s): Children; Dreams; God; Mothers; Sleep; Childhood; Nightmares ROBERT BROWNING (DIED AT THE PALAZZO REZZONICO, VENICE), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So, it is well: what need is there to mourn? Last Line: Uplift his soul to immortality. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Death; Dreams; Life; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Nightmares ROCOCO, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Take hand and part with laughter Last Line: And ten that you forget. Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Memory; Time; Nightmares ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: VOYAGE BY NIGHT, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The half-moon peer'd from the darksome clouds Last Line: Our number then was two. Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Moon; Night; Nightmares; Bedtime ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 14. MRS. CARE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When fortune on me shed her ray Last Line: While the nurse her snuff is taking. Subject(s): Dreams; Fortune; Loss; Nurses; Nightmares ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 17. EVIL DREAMS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In vision once more young and happy, paced I Last Line: As I have hopeless lain for many a year. Subject(s): Dreams; Evil; Kisses; Love; Nightmares ROMANS IN DORSET; A.D. 1895, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A stupor on the heath Last Line: My juvenal! Distraught with love of violated law. Subject(s): Dreams; Roman Empire; Vision; Nightmares SAD PERVERSITY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When but a little boy, it seemed Last Line: I am a little boy. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Boys; Dreams; Nightmares SAFETY, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: A cross uplifted on a hill Last Line: They went to pay their tithes and pray. Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares SALUTE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We, about to die, salute you kindly Last Line: We, the elders, hail our brothers young! Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Hearts; Hope; Love; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares; Optimism SALVAGE OPERATIONS, by PAUL MARIANI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When my oldest boy calls home (collect Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares SANCTUARY, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: My sister got me the script, I couldn't Last Line: Is sitting accusingly at the foot of my bed. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Death; Dreams; Morgues; Motion Pictures; Unfaithfulness; Actresses; Dead, The; Nightmares; Movies; Cinema; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy SAPPHICS, by SAPPHO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All the night sleep came not upon my eyelids Last Line: Hearing, to hear them. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Dreams; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Sleep; Nightmares SCARECROW ON FIRE, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everything is brushed away, off the sleeve, Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares SEA DREAM, by FREDERICK RIDGELY TORRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes at night a song comes flying Last Line: Singing of marvels in the body's dark. Subject(s): Dreams; Sea; Nightmares; Ocean SEA RHAPSODY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By day, the tremble of the boat Last Line: Restless, that yet bring rest. Subject(s): Boats; Dreams; Earth; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Sleep; Youth; Nightmares; World; Seamen; Sails; Ocean SECOND COMING, by SAMUEL KATZ Poem Text First Line: Sheets whiten about him. From the dark Last Line: To warm him from the cold hands of his age. Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Second Advent; Nightmares; Second Coming Of Christ SECOND THOUGHTS, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Was it I who dreamed Last Line: In the endless, love! Subject(s): Doubt; Dreams; Faith; Love; Perseverance; Skepticism; Nightmares; Belief; Creed SEEDINGS, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now in the dream Subject(s): Dreams; Poetry & Poets; Poetry Readings; Nightmares SERENADE, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bright stars are gleaming above Last Line: Oh, dream of me in thy soft slumbers! Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Moon; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Songs SERENADE, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With stars, with trailing galaxies Last Line: Dreaming a dream of me! Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Night; Sleep; Nightmares; Bedtime SERENADE - TO NORA, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moonlight is failin' Last Line: And light up the night where the heart av me's gropin'. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Moon; Night; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Bedtime SESTINA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw my soul at rest upon a day Last Line: Sing while he may, man hath no long delight. Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Soul; Nightmares SEVEN AGES, by JEWELL BOTHWELL TULL Poem Text First Line: Over the dim hill in the twilight Last Line: For I know it is the beginning. Subject(s): Disappointment; Dreams; Future Life; Hope; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Optimism SEVEN TIMES SEVEN [- LONGING FOR HOME], by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A song of a boat Last Line: Ah me! Subject(s): Boats; Dreams; Homesickness; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Songs SEVEN TWILIGHTS: 7, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the long silence of the sea, the seaman Last Line: That dreamed-of harbor lies which we would find. Subject(s): Dreams; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Sea; Nightmares; Ocean SHADOW RIVER (MUSKOVA), by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A stream of tender [or, silver] gladness Last Line: The shadows and the dreaming. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Dreams; Lament; Rivers; Nightmares SHEAF OF MEMORIES, by AVIS TURNER FRENCH Poem Text First Line: I longed to free my heart from broken hopes of olden years Last Line: Though they were part of yesteryears, they helped to make today. Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Youth; Nightmares SHINING STARS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shine, ye stars of heaven Last Line: Bids the end arise! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Stars; Time; Nightmares SHIPS, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One by one my dreams come true Last Line: Wandering and unfulfilled and free. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares SHIPS O' DREAMS, by EDITH MEDBERY FITCH Poem Text First Line: The gray ships, the stately ships Last Line: A-steaming down the bay. Subject(s): Dreams; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Nightmares; Ocean SHUT-EYE, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He dreams he's shooting himself in the eye his left eye the Subject(s): Dreams; Suicide; Eyes; Nightmares SIC TRANSIT, by KATHARINE WILLIS Poem Text First Line: As fall the sere leaves from the tree Last Line: Seeds will find roots and flowers grow! Subject(s): Autumn; Dreams; Flowers; Seasons; Trees; Fall; Nightmares SIDEWALK PHILOSOPHER, by BLANCHE SCHOFIELD Poem Text First Line: She did not hope to grace a royal ball Last Line: Because she could not wear a coronet. Subject(s): Apples; Dreams; Fruit; Philosophy & Philosophers; Nightmares SILVER DREAM, by LILA HURLEY Poem Text First Line: At dusk the wood bird's song continuous rang Last Line: That night when summer dreamed a silver dream. Subject(s): Birds; Dreams; Moon; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Songs SINGING FAITH, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Darkness and doubt and despair Last Line: Love? It bewitches the way. Subject(s): Despair; Doubt; Dreams; Faith; Singing & Singers; Skepticism; Nightmares; Belief; Creed; Songs SLEEP, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O sleep, thou kindest minister to man Last Line: Since death be but an endless, dreamless sleep? Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Rest; Nightmares; Bedtime SLEEP, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poor pain-worn mortal, dost thou weep? Last Line: God must be good. For god made sleep. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Night; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares; Bedtime SLEEP, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The city sleeps; the fierce metallic roar Last Line: They sleep. Subject(s): Cities; Corpses; Dreams; Moon; Sleep; Urban Life; Cadavers; Nightmares SLEEP, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While sways the restless sea Last Line: In dreams love hath no smart, -- sleep! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Sea; Sleep; Nightmares; Ocean SLEEP AT SEA, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sound the deep waters Last Line: Of all their ways. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Dreams; Sea; Sleep; Vanity; Nightmares; Ocean SLEEPING AND WAKING, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She said to herself - 'twas a girl ranging / pleasaunce and lawn Last Line: Where desire of all hearts dwelleth deep in a dream of the dream. Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Shadows; Sleep; Waking; Nightmares; Bedtime SLOW DREAMS, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: All my life I have been bothered by them Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares SLUMBER-SONG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, little one! The twilight folds her gloom Last Line: Of rapture perfected. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Sleep; Nightmares; Bedtime SMOKE, by LENARD M. BAZELL Poem Text First Line: Wild fantasies of blissful peace perturb my soul Last Line: What a day! Subject(s): Dreams; Peace; Smoking; Nightmares; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes SNOWED UNDER, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of a thousand things that the year snowed under Last Line: Your mantle of ermine, tell me, pray! Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Earth; Hope; Snow; Dead, The; Nightmares; World; Optimism SOLDIERS HERE TO-DAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soldiers and saviors of the homes Last Line: And reap the harvest sure! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Freedom; Patriotism; Peace; Soldiers; War; Nightmares; Liberty SOLITUDE, by MATTIE RICHARDS TYLER Poem Text First Line: O, mountain, wearing diadem of stars Last Line: Dark mountain, where pale dogwood waits for spring. Subject(s): Despair; Dreams; Mountains; Solitude; Nightmares; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness SOMETIMES, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I take your hand Last Line: A ship leaving for strange and distant countries Subject(s): Dreams; Mediterranean Sea; Nightmares SONG, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the long, the wide dark seas Last Line: Far from the shore -- yea far! Subject(s): Dreams; Sea; Love; Nightmares; Ocean SONG, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dream'd that I woke from a dream Last Line: And that, my love, was thou. Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Nightmares SONG (10), by JOHN WILMOT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair chloris in a pigsty lay Last Line: She's innocent and pleased. Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of Subject(s): Dreams; Love - Erotic; Nightmares SONG (6), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is not for her even brow Last Line: Whose love makes many hearts rejoice. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Love; Singing & Singers; Nightmares SONG (8), by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh never another dream can be Last Line: That early dream of ours. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares SONG OF APPLE-TREES, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Song of apple-trees, honeysweet and murmurous Last Line: Avalon of the heart's desire, avalon of the hidden shores. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Apple Trees; Avalon (legend); Desire; Dreams; Hearts; Singing & Singers; Trees; Nightmares SONG OF THE EARTHLINGS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the earth we came Last Line: Old time has laid them low. Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Life; Singing & Singers; Time; Trees; Nightmares; World; Songs SONG OF THE SLEEPER, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleeper rest quietly Last Line: Sleep and forget! Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares SONG: DREAM-SINGING, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamt that I was singing Last Line: No more a dream shall be! Subject(s): Dreams; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Songs SONG: SUNBEAM AND DEWDROP, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O sunbeam, o sunbeam Last Line: Sparkling, starlike, everywhere. Subject(s): Dreams; Shadows; Nightmares SONGS FOR A WINTER FIRE: 6. WARM DAYS IN WINTER, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When warm days come in the middle of winter Last Line: And you dream of a faun's, or wood-nymph's, fife. Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Winter; Nightmares SONGS FOR A WINTER FIRE: 7. ZERO, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hard of heart, winter has frozen the fields Last Line: One dares not even think of lambs or fawns. Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Stars; Winter; Nightmares SONGS OF NIGHT TO MORNING: 3, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: Yes, perhaps a dream it is -- but far too sweet for breaking Last Line: When no thoughts thrill our stormy souls to lays. Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Nightmares SONGS OF THE DAYS AND NIGHTS: SONGS OF THE SUMMER DAYS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A glory on the chamber wall! Last Line: Leads back to golden morn. Subject(s): Calm; Day; Dreams; Life; Nature; Summer; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Nightmares SONGS TO A.H.R.: 13. TRANSIENCY, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, let us watch that rock down in the tide Last Line: Toward paradise! Subject(s): Dreams; Home; Love; Thought; Nightmares; Thinking SONGS TO A.H.R.: 7. SWALLOWS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a room that we love Last Line: And happy swallows ranging. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Dreams; Love; Silence; Swallows; Nightmares SONNET, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who, harnessed in his mail of self, demands Last Line: This know the men who leave the world their names. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Dreams; Home; Poetry & Poets; Nightmares SONNET, by THEOPHILE DE VIAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I dreamt that philis left her shroud Last Line: "so now boast that you've made love to my soul." Alternate Author Name(s): De Viau, Theophile Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Nightmares SONNET: 1, by DIGBY MACKWORTH DOLBEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One night I dreamt that in a gleaming hall Last Line: You laughed, and in great bitterness I woke. Alternate Author Name(s): Dolben, Digby Augustus Stewart Mackworth Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares SONNET: 23. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Methought I saw my late espoused saint Last Line: I wak'd, she fled, and day brought back my night. Variant Title(s): Katherine Milton;alcestis;sonnet: 19;sonnet 19;a Dream Of A Dead Wife Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Immortality; Love - Marital; Mourning; Powell, Mary (d. 1652); Widows & Widowers; Woodcock, Katherine (1628-1658); Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Bereavement SONNET: 5, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dreamt I to-day the dream of yesternight Last Line: Truth is a dream, unless my dream is true. Subject(s): Dreams; Truth; Nightmares SONNET: 8, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As starts the absent dreamer, when a train Last Line: The unlovely path that leads me toward the skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares SONNET: EGYPT, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fantastic sleep is busy with my eyes Last Line: Is shut in the rosy outstretched hand of dawn. Subject(s): Dreams; Egypt; Nightmares SONNETS TO MIRANDA: 15, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I should have cleaved to her who did not dwell Last Line: And now, sweet dreams, sweet lady! -- and good-bye! Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Heaven; Hell; Love; Nightmares; Paradise SPELL TO BE SAID BEFORE SLEEP, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each pot now hang bright Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares SPIRIT OF SLEEP, by EDITH HASKELL TAPPAN Poem Text First Line: Now up the broad white path of dreams Last Line: Be borne aloft on wings of prayer. Subject(s): Dreams; Prayer; Sleep; Soul; Nightmares SPOKEN AT A CASTLE GATE, by DONALD (GRADY) DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before you touch the bolt that locks this gate Last Line: Perhaps you'll find, -- but never come back again. Subject(s): Castles; Dreams; Nightmares SPRING FANTASIES: 3. THE SYMBOL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is the symbol underneath it all Last Line: Is certified by joy and love and peace. Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Love; Memory; Nature; Peace; Nightmares SPRING FANTASIES: 6. AS FLUTES OF ARCADY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The purity of water and the peace Last Line: And hero-deeds along a hundred hills! Subject(s): Beauty; Children; Dreams; Poetry & Poets; Truth; Water; Childhood; Nightmares ST. CAMPION AND THE MAID OF WICKLOW, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A highland glen and one white cottage there Last Line: "drink! You are thirsty, climbing all the day." Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Heaven; Soul; Nightmares; Paradise STANZAS, by YANNIS PAPADIAMANTOPOULOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Say not: life is one joyous festival Last Line: By a young flower's loveliness. Alternate Author Name(s): Moreas, Jean Subject(s): Dreams; Hope; Life; Lips; Soul; Nightmares; Optimism STANZAS, by MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT GODWIN SHELLEY Poem Text First Line: O, come to me in dreams, my love Last Line: And press mine eyelids with thy kiss. Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Nightmares STANZAS WRITTEN AFTER SUCCESSIVE NIGHTS OF MELANCHOLY DREAMS, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye airy phantoms, by whose pow'r Last Line: Then let me sink to rest—and never wake again! Subject(s): Dreams; Melancholy; Nightmares; Dejection STAR DUST, by IRMA SCOTT LERICHE Poem Text First Line: Little moon riding on in the dusk of the sky Last Line: From the sea. Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Stars; Nightmares STEAL NOT THE DREAM!, by D. SANIAL GILL Poem Text First Line: It is easy to strain upward when we know Last Line: The stricken wretch will but the sooner die! Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares STEVENSON MAKES CONRAD WELCOME, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At last you come, my fellow of the seas Last Line: "how conrad's company will color heaven!" Subject(s): Dreams; Fates (mythology); Heaven; Sea; Truth; Nightmares; Paradise; Ocean STORM LULLABY, by JEANNETTE AUGUSTUS MARKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Held in the refuge of your arms Last Line: Deep is the breast of love to me. Subject(s): Dreams; Sanctuaries; Storms; Nightmares STRADA SAN GIOVANNI, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a quiet little by-way Last Line: Shines in strada san giovanni. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Nightmares STRANGE MEETING, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: It seemed that out of battle I escaped Last Line: "let us sleep now. . . ." Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Hell; Regret; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; Nightmares; First World War SUCH STUFF AS DREAMS ARE MADE ON, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He does his job without a single thrill Last Line: The drudge without whom all our dreams are dust! Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares SUDS, by LULU MINERVA SCHULTZ Poem Text First Line: O would you dream of poems in a wash-tub Last Line: Portraits clean cut, her swinging line of clothes. Subject(s): Cleansing Agents; Dreams; Laundry & Laundering; Poetry & Poets; Detergents; Soap; Cleansing Compounds; Disinfection And Disinfectants; Nightmares SUMMER NIGHT; VARIATIONS ON CERTAIN MELODIES: 3. APPASSIONATO, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was it a distant flute Last Line: Filled with thy mystery! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Dreams; Flutes; Longing; Nightmares SUNDAY IN NOVEMBER, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And who were they all in your sleep last night Last Line: Come morning. Subject(s): Dreams; Reality; Nightmares SUNSET, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have wandered towards the sunset in the silence of Last Line: To the storm-swept reefs of danger in the dream-dissolving dawn. Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Nightmares SUNSET, by PHOEBE DANA KELLOGG Poem Text First Line: You have barred my vision, west-wind Last Line: To swirl through the gate of space and gold. Subject(s): Dreams; Evening; Vision; Nightmares; Sunset; Twilight SUNSET AT KERAZUR, by LOUIS TIERCELIN Poem Text First Line: Gray clouds, and blue clouds, and clouds all full of roses Last Line: My gray dreams, and blue dreams, and dreams all full of roses. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares TARQUIN'S DREAM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When repose had come upon me and I yielded Last Line: "that the old roman state shall flourish, and beyond all states endure" Subject(s): Dreams;roman Empire;vision; Nightmares TEA AND A DREAM, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One eye open, on its little island Last Line: "the black box, emptied of its cargo, light, Subject(s): Dreams; Merrill, James (1926-1995); Absence; Nightmares TEARS IN SLEEP, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night the cocks crew, under a moon like day Last Line: From the night giving off flames, and the dark renewing. Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Sleep; Dreams; Nightmares TEARS IN SLEEP, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night the cocks crew, under a moon like day Last Line: From the night giving off flames, and the dark renewing. Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares TERMINAL, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Riding home from credulous blue domes, Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE ABANDONMENT, by WESLEY MCNAIR Poem Full Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Climbing on top of him and breathing Subject(s): Death - Children; Dreams; Death - Babies; Nightmares THE AMULET, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Blackbirds are scribbling in the winter heat of the trees Last Line: If I did. Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Moon; Night; Sleep; Nightmares; Bedtime THE ANCIENT CHANCE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Battle and fog and dream Last Line: And the ancient chance is sweet! Subject(s): Birth; Blindness; Death; Dreams; Eyes; Hearts; Child Birth; Midwifery; Visually Handicapped; Dead, The; Nightmares THE AUSTRALIAN BELL-BIRD, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Toll -- toll. The bell-bird sounding far away Last Line: Congratulant and clear estelle, estelle. Subject(s): Bellbirds; Bells; Dreams; Home; Life; Love; Nightmares THE AUTHORS DREAME TO THE LADY MARIE, COUNTESSE DOWAGER OF PEMBROOKE, by AEMILIA (BASSANO) LANYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Me thought I pass'd through th' edalyan groves Last Line: They all are purg'd by his divinity. Alternate Author Name(s): Lanier, Emilia Subject(s): Dreams; Herbert, Mary Sidney (1561-1621); Nightmares; Pembroke, Countess Of; Sidney, Mary (1561-1621); Dudley, Mary THE AWAKENING, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The beauties of the world do master me Last Line: And make my nest and sing the joy thereof. Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Kisses; Love; Soul; Nightmares THE AWAKENING, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed that I was a rose Last Line: That I had waited there for you. Subject(s): Absence; Dreams; Hearts; Love; Passion; Waiting; Separation; Isolation; Nightmares THE AWAKENING, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let me sleep on! I would not waken yet Last Line: The quiet land of dreams. Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Life; Memory; Soul; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness THE BAGEL, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stopped to pick up the bagel Subject(s): Bagels; Dreams; Food & Eating; Nightmares THE BAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strange dreams of what I used Last Line: Who either pity or despise. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Future; Memory; Dead, The; Nightmares THE BEAUTY OF GOOD DREAMS, by OWEN REDINGTON WASHBURN Poem Text First Line: How rich the world in beauty of good dreams! Last Line: Dream thou great dreams and make more fair the earth. Variant Title(s): Good Dreams Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Soul; Nightmares THE BED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, of all god's gifts the best Last Line: Softest, safest, blessedest. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beds; Dreams; Sleep; Youth; Nightmares THE BIRTHPLACE OF DREAMS, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Over the hills where the moon hangs low Last Line: Of the place where my dreams have origin. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE BLEAK OF THE YEAR, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a time of subtle browns, and grays Last Line: A mystery, the selah of the soul. Subject(s): Dreams; Seasons; Sleep; Soul; Nightmares THE BLOCK-HOUSE IN THE PARK, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The north wind storms my rugged front Last Line: May all their wars be such as these! Subject(s): Dreams; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Nightmares THE BODING DREAMS, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In lover's ear a wild voice cried Last Line: The murder's done. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Murder; Predestination; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares THE BODY OF THE DREAM, by SUSAN WOOD Poet's Biography First Line: It was evening and gold light fell Subject(s): Dreams; Giotto Di Bondone (1276-1337); Mothers; Nightmares THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND EYES: A DREAM, by LYN HEJINIAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A dream, still clinging like light to the dark, rounding Last Line: Of life. Sleep is immediate and memory nothing Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE BRAND NEW STATUE OF LIBERTY; TO LEE IACOCCA (ANOTHER MICHIGAN BOY), by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was commissioned in a dream by imanja Last Line: So that she'll drop the torch to fondle the jewels. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Dreams; Statue Of Liberty; Nightmares THE BRIDE, by AMBROSE BIERCE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse Last Line: "am reason, and the other was a dream." Subject(s): Reason; Drinks & Drinking; Rerality; Dreams; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Wine; Nightmares THE BRIDE'S DREAM, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stars are gleaming Last Line: Through paths of pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Brides; Dreams; Pain; Singing & Singers; Stars; Nightmares; Suffering; Misery THE BROKEN PROMISE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After the crisp of fall Last Line: And a broken promise is their doom. Subject(s): Autumn; Mountains; Fall; Dead, The; Nightmares; Human Race; Bedtime THE BROKER OF DREAMS, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bring not your dreams to me Last Line: There is no cure but sleeping. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE BUGLES OF DREAMLAND, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Swiftly the dews of the gloaming are falling Last Line: And the bugles of dreamland about us are calling. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Bugles; Death; Dreams; Future Life; Mysticism; Dead, The; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE BUILDER, by MAUD MORRISON HUEY Poem Text First Line: Across the tinsel of my dreams Last Line: Out of the memory of a dream? Subject(s): Dreams; Time; Nightmares THE CARPERS (AN ASPECT), by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Always the worm in the bud, the fly in the amber Last Line: "carpers"" at odds with our age!" Subject(s): Courage; Desire; Dreams; Mankind; Valor; Bravery; Nightmares; Human Race THE CHILD IN THE GREAT WOOD, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is all much worse than I dreamed Subject(s): Forests; Dreams; War; Woods; Nightmares THE CITY OF LAISH, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have you read of the orient people of / laish in the olden time Last Line: Christ came and his presence declared it, so the dream may not utterly die. Subject(s): Asia; Cities; Death; Dreams; Jesus Christ; War; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Urban Life; Dead, The; Nightmares THE CLAIM OF KINDRED, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am not one, but many: murmuring through Last Line: The passions of my kindred clasp me still! Subject(s): Dreams; Evil; God; Soul; Nightmares THE COMFORTERS, by LAURENCE HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To night the sleeper Last Line: "o sorrow the sleeper!" Subject(s): Comfort; Dreams; Night; Peace; Sleep; Nightmares; Bedtime THE COMPANIONS, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How few are they that voyage through the night Last Line: By hosts of unknown men. Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Eyes; Flowers; Soul; Spring; Nightmares THE CONFLICT OF CONVICTIONS, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On starry heights / a bugle wails the long recall Last Line: Wisdom is vain, and prophesy. Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Dreams; Hope; Past; United States - History; Wisdom; Dead, The; Nightmares; Optimism THE CONTRABAND, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed I held a poem and knew Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE COOUETRY OF MEN, by MAURICE MAGRE Poem Text First Line: We too, no less, have all our little arts Last Line: Both hide their viewless hearts forevermore. Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Life; Women; Nightmares THE CRY OF THE DREAMER, by JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am tired of planning and toiling Last Line: And a toiler dies in a day. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE DARK CHATEAU, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In dreams a dark chateau Last Line: My dark chateau. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE DEAD BRIDE, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within my circled arm she lay and Last Line: But oh, the emptiness of dawn that breaks the dream!) Subject(s): Brides; Death; Dreams; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Nightmares THE DEAD SOUL, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed such a horrible dream last night Last Line: The soul that's dead!' Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Dead, The; Nightmares THE DEATH OF THE RACE CAR DRIVER, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have not slept for a week. / it is matchless-this feeling Last Line: Sack for eternity. Subject(s): Automobile Racing; Dreams; Insomnia; Memory; Sports; War; Race Car Driving; Nightmares; Sleeplessness THE DEATH-CHILD, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She sits beneath the elder-tree Last Line: Knoweth that he is dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Children; Death; Dreams; Tears; Childhood; Dead, The; Nightmares THE DEMON DAWN, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: The twilight came to soothe my furrowed care Last Line: And shatter all the happiness I know? Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Rest; Silence; Nightmares; Bedtime THE DESTINY OF DREAMS, by S. CHARLES JELLICOE Poem Text First Line: I dreamed that heaven was builded Last Line: May be of beauty too! Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE DIAMOND PERSONA, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamt tolstoi was mad and running away Last Line: Above some fanciful future spring planting. Subject(s): Dreams; Mysticism; Russia; Tolstoy, Leo (1828-1910); Nightmares; Soviet Union; Russians THE DIFFERENCE, by ANGELO PHILIP BERTOCCI Poem Text First Line: You spoke one word Last Line: I had grown old! Subject(s): Aging; Dreams; Youth; Nightmares THE DOVES, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: On yonder hillside, white with tombs Last Line: But vanish at the break of day. Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon Subject(s): Doves; Dreams; Palm Trees; Nightmares THE DREAM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "I dreamed that, buried in my fellow clay" Last Line: "here all are equal, now thy case is mine: / this is my rotting-place, and that is thine" Subject(s): Begging & Beggars;dreams;sleep; Nightmares THE DREAM, by BRIAN" "BENDO [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: Twas when tacita hushed the noisy world Last Line: "the thought of which did banish sleep away, / and lo! The cuckold with the strumpet lay" Alternate Author Name(s): "bendo, Brian; Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE DREAM, by APHRA BEHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The grove was gloomy all around Last Line: For I was still a slave. Alternate Author Name(s): Astraea; Behn, Afara; Behn, Apharra; Amis, Ayfara Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE DREAM, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O god, in the dream the terrible horse began Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE DREAM, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such perfection Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE DREAM, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear love, for nothing less than thee Last Line: Will dream that hope again, but else would die. Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Nightmares THE DREAM, by IRVING FELDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once, years after your death, I dreamt Subject(s): Dreams; Mothers; Death; Selfishness; Nightmares; Dead, The THE DREAM, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A vision I dreamt of a lovely child Last Line: In silence and all-uncaring. Subject(s): Dreams; Kisses; Love; Silence; Nightmares THE DREAM, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you were here to-night, o my dead love Last Line: In silence down the shadowy stream of life. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Nightmares THE DREAM, by MAUD MORRISON HUEY Poem Text First Line: Oh, mother o' mine, did you dream a dream Last Line: When the west wind haunts the hill. Subject(s): Dreams; Mothers; Nightmares THE DREAM, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night, my love, I dreamed of thee Last Line: "god bless thee, love, -- good morning!" Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE DREAM, by FELIX LOPE DE VEGA CARPIO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To set my jealous soul at strife Last Line: Yet dreams themselves allow me none. Alternate Author Name(s): Lope De Vega Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE DREAM, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Am I so bankrupt of delight Last Line: As earthly, for myself to wear. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE DREAM, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, great it is to believe the dream Last Line: "and say at the end, ""the dream is true!" Subject(s): Dreams; Faith; Nightmares; Belief; Creed THE DREAM, by LOLA RIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have a dream Last Line: Where shall I pour my dream? Alternate Author Name(s): Lawson, David, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE DREAM, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I met her as a blossom on a stem Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Nightmares THE DREAM, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rest, rest; the troubled breast Last Line: A very dream of dreams. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Happiness; Life; Love; Dead, The; Nightmares; Joy; Delight THE DREAM, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I woke to find my pillow wet Last Line: Was I thy captive all o'erthrown? Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Love - Complaints; Tears; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness THE DREAM, by MARJORIE ALLEN SEIFFERT Poem Text First Line: My ancestor, in early time Last Line: Silence of air, alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Cypher, Angela; Hay, Elijah Subject(s): Dreams; Eden; Evolution; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Nightmares THE DREAM, by ELIZABETH OAKES PRINCE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed last night, that I myself did lay Last Line: And we bow down in dread, o'ershadowed by death's wing! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Seba (e. Oakes), Mrs.; Oakes-smith, Elizabeth Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Earth; Graves; Grief; Dead, The; Nightmares; World; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness THE DREAM, by THOMAS STANLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That I might ever dream thus! That some power Last Line: Or if thou wilt away, leave her behind. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE DREAM, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, if the world I make Last Line: I have dreamed: let me wake! Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE DREAM, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In fairest garden wandered Last Line: He in a dungeon lay. Subject(s): Dreams; Kisses; Love; Nightmares THE DREAM, by MRS. ROSS YOCOM Poem Text First Line: I had a dream the other night Last Line: For the lowly nazarene of ancient days. Subject(s): Dreams; Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; Nightmares THE DREAM (1), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Me thought, (last night) love in an anger came Last Line: Hony to salve, where the before did sting. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE DREAM (2), by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A lake in the head Subject(s): Dreams; Drowning; Nightmares THE DREAM (2), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By dream I saw, one of the three Last Line: Then juha weep, for I must dy. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE DREAM OF A DREAMER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Last night I dreamed that I Last Line: Of one whose soul is dead Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;dreams;night; Nightmares;bedtime THE DREAM OF A FIRE ENGINE, by KIMIKO HAHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Without the sun filtered through closed eyelids, Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE DREAM OF A LACQUER BOX, by KIMIKO HAHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wish I knew the contents and I wish the contents Subject(s): Mothers; Heritage; Dreams; Nightmares THE DREAM OF DEATH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O gentle death, bow down and Last Line: Forever on your loving breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Soul; Dead, The; Nightmares THE DREAM OF DREAMS, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: However real it seem, / sleeping we or waking Last Line: Life is a dream, a dream? Subject(s): Dreams; Humanity; Life; Nightmares THE DREAM OF SCIPIO, by PIETRO METASTASIO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, mighty offspring of emilius, come Last Line: Your favoring grace—auspicious omen, hail! Alternate Author Name(s): Trapassi, Pietro Antonio Domenico Subject(s): Dreams; Fidelity; Fortune; Nightmares; Faithfulness; Constancy THE DREAM OF THE CHILDREN, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The children awoke in their dreaming Last Line: And half was never forgot. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Childhood; Nightmares THE DREAM OF THE LITTLE PRINCESS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a curious dream, goo Last Line: Of the sandals of his feet! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Youth; Nightmares THE DREAM OF THE ROPEMAKER'S SON, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ropemaker's son to his father said Last Line: And stars like dust of the road in his face. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE DREAM OF WAKING, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something is there. And teacher here at home Last Line: His life and their death: oh morning, morning Subject(s): War; Death; Dreams; Dead, The; Nightmares THE DREAM SONGS: 1, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Huffy henry hid the day, Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE DREAM SONGS: 29, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: There sat down, once, a thing on henry's heart Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE DREAM THAT CRACKED A WHIP, by FRANCES AIRTH Poem Text First Line: Dream / you are too much Last Line: For this frail strength. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE DREAM'S WISDOM, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed / mama came back Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Mothers; Death; Dreams; Dead, The; Nightmares THE DREAM-FOLLOWER, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A dream of mine flew over the mead Last Line: And I whitely hastened away. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE DREAM-SELLER MAN, by EUGENIA STOUTENBURGH Poem Text First Line: The dream-seller came to the little by-street Last Line: Go there, if you'd sell any dreams today. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE DREAM. AN EPISTLE TO MR. DRYDEN, by ELIZABETH THOMAS Poem Text First Line: When yet a child, I read great virgil o'er Last Line: But envies those that in your presence stand. Subject(s): Dreams; Dryden, John (1631-1700); Poetry & Poets; Nightmares THE DREAMER, by HUGH FRANCIS BLUNT Poem Text First Line: He made but dreams; for this they laughed him down Last Line: God's tax of death on earth-idolatry. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE DREAMER, by DOROTHY COLLINS Poem Text First Line: When he goes down to his sleep Last Line: God! To the dreamer be kind. Subject(s): Dreams; Wellesley College; Nightmares THE DREAMER, by MARY ANN H. DODD Poem Text First Line: Heart of mine, why art thou dreaming! Last Line: Father, give that peace to me! Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE DREAMER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peace to thy dreams! Thou art slumbering now Last Line: How know we if under the wings of death? Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): De Quincey, Thomas (1785-1859); Dreams; Nightmares THE DREAMER, by SHAEMAS O'SHEEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He whom a dream hath possessed knoweth no more of doubting Last Line: And rides god's battlefield in a flashing and golden car. Alternate Author Name(s): Shield, Shaemus; O Sheel, Seamus Subject(s): Dreams; Religion; Nightmares; Theology THE DREAMER, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Throughout his span of argent days Last Line: To fairer, freer dreams. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE DREAMER, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lone man gazed and gazed upon his gold Last Line: A gaunt and hairy man with wolfish eyes. Subject(s): Dreams; God; Nightmares THE DREAMER IN ME, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dreamer in me keeps on dreaming though Last Line: Yet my friend and I go on talking as if there were nothing strange in it at all. Subject(s): Dreams; Reality; Nightmares THE DREAMING BOY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Sweet are thy dreams, thou happy, careless boy Last Line: From hands that come to cage them till they die. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE DREAMING CHILD, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And is there sadness in thy dreams, my boy? Last Line: Start from the dream-like wilderness of life? Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Childhood; Nightmares THE DREAMING MAN, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O dreaming man, why dost thou go Last Line: I hold the little earth -- and dream. Subject(s): Dreams; God; Nightmares THE DREAMS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I am sleeping I go in dreams Last Line: When I wake from my dreams, I wake to weep. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Friendship; Life; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares THE DREAMS AHEAD, by EDWIN CARLILE LITSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What would we do in this world of ours Last Line: The dreams -- and faith -- and love! Alternate Author Name(s): Litsey, E. Carl Edwin Carlile Subject(s): Courage; Dreams; Valor; Bravery; Nightmares THE DREAMS OF LONG AGO, by IMBERT GALLOIX Poem Text First Line: Mine was a vernal world, delectable with flowers Last Line: -- forget, my soul, the dreams of long ago! Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Nature; Past; Nightmares THE DREAMS OF WILD HORSES, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night and full moon Last Line: Moonlight weathering in the dry corn Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Horses; Prairies; Nightmares; Plains THE DREAMS THAT CAME TRUE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw in a vision once, our mother-sphere Last Line: "thy kingdom come." Subject(s): Dreams; God; Immortality; Night; Vision; Nightmares; Bedtime THE DREAMS WE WAKE FROM, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Are dams bursting oceans suddenly swallowed Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Reality; Nightmares THE DYING DECADENT, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And when the evening came he fell asleep Last Line: Calling on things that he had long forgot. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Dreams; Immortality; Sleep; Nightmares THE DYING POET, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Between the motionless and silent grass Last Line: Falls, and I shall not see another morn. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Earth; Kisses; Life; Loss; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Nightmares; World THE ECLIPSE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I said, tonight is her plenilune Last Line: "and ""the law is the law,"" the astronomers said!" Subject(s): Dreams; Eclipses; Love; Moon; Sea; Soul; Nightmares; Ocean THE ENCHANTED VALLEYS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the gate of sleep we enter the enchanted valleys Last Line: It is past: there is no dawn: no to-morrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Future Life; Time; Dead, The; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE END OF AN ETHNIC DREAM, by JAY WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cigarettes in my mouth Last Line: My brain blistered. Subject(s): Aging; Dreams; Conduct Of Life; Nightmares THE ENIGMA, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Falling to sleep last night in a deep crevasse Subject(s): Dreams; Lambs; Nightmares THE ETERNAL ADVENTURE: BOOK 1, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: I felt a limit should be set to these joys that rouse such envious strife Last Line: * * * * * * * Subject(s): Adventure & Adventurers; Dreams; Life; Love; Nightmares THE ETERNAL FEMININE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For ever shall she beckon. Men may prate Last Line: Yet ancient as the moaning of the sea! Subject(s): Dreams; Light; Sea; Time; Nightmares; Ocean THE EXCHANGE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am watching a woman swim below the surface Subject(s): Dreams; Relationships; Swimming & Swimmers; Women; Nightmares; Swimmers THE FAIR WATERS OF DREAM, by MARIE DE REGNIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the fair waters of asia, in a green countryside Last Line: The stroke gone by. Alternate Author Name(s): D'houville, Gerard; Heredia, Marie De Subject(s): Dreams; Fountains; Shadows; Water; Waves; Nightmares THE FATAL DREAM; OR, THE UNHAPPY FAVOURITE; AN ELEGY, by EMANUEL COLLINS Poem Text First Line: Weeping melpomene assist my lays Last Line: Forgotten by his fond penelope.' Subject(s): Courtship; Dreams; Grief; Melancholy; Mourning; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Dejection; Bereavement THE FINISHED HOUSE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: The finished house. The realized dream of those Last Line: O god of hosts! Amen. Subject(s): Blessings; Dreams; Houses; Prayer; Nightmares THE FIRST DREAMER, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He woke to clasp the vision of his dream Last Line: Each might in god behold the other's heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE FOUNTAIN OF SHADOWY BEAUTY; A DREAM, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I would I could weave in Last Line: With thee now I go. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Nightmares THE GARDEN, by EMMA CATHERINE (MANLY) EMBURY Poem Text First Line: O what a world of beauty lies within Last Line: With a most tremulous stillness. Alternate Author Name(s): Ianthe Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Eden; Gardens & Gardening; Youth; Nightmares THE GHOST, by HERMANN HAGEDORN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One whom I loved and never can forget Last Line: She shook her head bewildered, and was gone. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE GHOST'S LEAVETAKING, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enter the chilly no-man's land of about Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE GRAY INN, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And at the last he came to a gray inn Last Line: He knew his hand would do an evil thing. Subject(s): Dreams; Gambling; Greed; Nightmares; Wagering; Betting; Avarice; Cupidity THE GREY COUNTRY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamt a dream on november night Last Line: Hiding them warm in her blue cloak. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Caregivers; Comfort; Dreams; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Purgatory; Women - Bible; Nightmares; Virgin Mary THE HARMLESS LUXURY, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her skies, of whom I sing, are hung Last Line: The dreamers, who believe their dreams Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE HAUNTING DREAM, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night a melancholy dream Last Line: And that which thou mayst never see! Subject(s): Dreams; Lament; Nightmares THE HEAVEN OF DREAMS, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Into the sunset far over the lea Last Line: "and love a moon-white steed." Subject(s): Dreams; Heaven; Love Affairs; Romance; Sleep; Nightmares; Paradise THE HOOSIER IN EXILE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hoosier in exile - a toast Last Line: "the hoosier in exile!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Exiles; Nightmares; World THE HOSTEL OF SLEEP, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis the hostel of sleep. Come in, come in! Last Line: As you lie at rest in the chamber blue. Subject(s): Dreams; Knights & Knighthood; Love; Sleep; Nightmares THE HOUSE, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes, on waking, she would close her eyes Subject(s): Houses; Dreams; Love - Loss Of; Nightmares THE HOUSE OF DREAMS, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I built a little house of dreams Last Line: And passed it by. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Truth; Nightmares THE HOUSE OF DUST: 1, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun goes down in a cold pale flare of light Last Line: And hew rock out of the earth, and build them again. Subject(s): Dreams; Evening; Faces; Rain; Nightmares; Sunset; Twilight THE HOUSE OF FAME, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God turne us every drem to goode! Last Line: A man of gret auctorite. . . . Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE IDEAL, by ANNE CHARLOTTE LYNCH BOTTA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A sad, sweet dream! It fell upon my soul Last Line: To welcome my approach to thine own spirit-land. Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Life; Longing; Nature; Nightmares THE IDEAL FOUND, by ANNE CHARLOTTE LYNCH BOTTA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've met thee, whom I dared not hope to meet Last Line: What there thou ever wert, a beautiful, bright dream! Subject(s): Dreams; Faith; Life; Love; Nightmares; Belief; Creed THE IMMORTAL RESIDUE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love and the lofty heart and tears - these three Last Line: Hold back their portion due of tears and dark. Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Socrates (470-399 B.c.); Tears; Nightmares THE INSTRUCTION MANUAL, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: As I sit looking out of a window of the building Last Line: Rights reserved. Subject(s): Boredom; Dreams; Guadalajara; Imagination; Ennui; Nightmares; Fancy THE ISLE, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day the island-world had been Last Line: Nor any lover own. Subject(s): Dreams; Islands; Nightmares THE ISLE OF LOST DREAMS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is an isle beyond our ken Last Line: Drift through the isle beyond our ken. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Tears; Time; Nightmares THE IVORY GATE OF DREAMS, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A continent of silver-gray and rose Last Line: Where deathless roses gleam like fragrant flames. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Graves; Mystery; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares; Tombs; Tombstones THE KING, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went to the middle of the room and called out Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE KING OF DREAMS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some must delve when the dawn is nigh Last Line: Every man is a king of dreams! Subject(s): Dreams; Self-gratification; Nightmares THE KINGDOM OF 'IF', by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a wonderful country, the king- / dom of if Last Line: From the heart-breaking valley of dreams. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE KNIGHTS AT RINGSTEAD: 4. THE KNIGHT BEAUCLERC TO THE LADY GLORIA, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When that the queen with all her maids came / singing Last Line: Farewell! Farewell! But I have loved you best. Subject(s): Beauty; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Dreams; Flowers; Knights & Knighthood; Love; Roses; Nightmares THE LABYRINTH, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since I emerged that day from the labyrinth Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE LADY UNKNOWN, by ALEXANDER (ALEKSANDR) ALEXANDROVICH BLOK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Of evenings hangs above the restaurant Last Line: I also know: truth lies in wine. Variant Title(s): The Stranger Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Dreams; Friendship; Imagination; Shadows; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Nightmares; Fancy THE LADY'S DREAM, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lady lay in her bed Last Line: Would dream the lady's dream! Subject(s): Dreams; Remorse; Nightmares THE LAND OF DREAMS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O spirit-land! Thou land of dreams! Last Line: Till I go where the beautiful melts not away! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE LAND OF HOPE-TO-BE, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a way to happiness Last Line: By the sleepy streams. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE LAST CAST; THE ANGLER'S APOLOGY, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just one cast more! How many a year Last Line: Mourned in the latest minstrel's ear! Subject(s): Dreams; Fish & Fishing; Nightmares; Anglers THE LAST MAN: A DREAM, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I looked into a dream; 'twas drawn Last Line: Was of the northern hurricane _____ Subject(s): Cupid; Death; Dreams; Sleep; Eros; Dead, The; Nightmares THE LAST MAN: DREAM OF DYING, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shivering in fever, weak, and parched to sand Last Line: Are these thy dreams! Variant Title(s): The Last Man; Fragment Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares THE LAST MAN: RECOGNITION, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soft! Stand away! Those features -- do not stir Last Line: But I shall never dream of thee again. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE LAST MUSTER, by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: All day we had driven the starving sheep to the scrub where the axes ply Last Line: And I woke to the red burned acres, and knew that I had but dreamed. Alternate Author Name(s): Ogilvie, Will Henry Subject(s): Cattle; Dreams; Drovers; God; Greed; Nightmares; Avarice; Cupidity THE LAST PORTAGE, by WILLIAM HENRY DRUMMOND Poem Text First Line: I'm sleeping las' night w'en I dream a dream Last Line: Is goin' away on de morning light? Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE LESSON, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first time that I dreamed, we were in flight Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE LIGHT OF DREAM, by FREDERIC FAIRCHILD SHERMAN Poem Text First Line: When evening comes upon the skies Last Line: A dream to light the way! Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE LILY, by STEPHEN PHILLIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed that after wandering long I came Last Line: And as I walked beside her, I awoke. Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Lilies; Nightmares THE LITTLE OLD WOMEN; TO VICTOR HUGO, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the winding folds of old capitals Last Line: On whom the dreaful claw of god lies heavy? Subject(s): Dreams; Old Age; Nightmares THE LONESOME DREAM, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the america of the dream Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Dreams; United States; Race Awareness; Nightmares; America THE LOOM OF DREAMS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I broider the world upon a loom Last Line: Sits weaving worlds out of loneliness? Subject(s): Dreams; Solitude; Weavers And Weaving; Nightmares; Loneliness THE LOST BATTLE, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is not over yet -- the fight Last Line: Courage, it is not over yet. Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Dreams; Names; Night; War; Dead, The; Nightmares; Bedtime THE LOST KISS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I put by the half-written poem Last Line: Cry up to me over it all. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Daughters; Dreams; Kisses; Love; Poetry & Poets; Nightmares THE LOVER HAVING DREAMED OF ENJOYING HIS LOVE, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unstable dream, according to the place Last Line: Such mocks of dreams they turn to deadly pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 79;sonnet: 27 Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Dreams; Pain; Dead, The; Nightmares; Suffering; Misery THE LOVER SHOWETH HOW HE IS FORSAKEN, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: They flee from me that sometime did me seek Last Line: I would fain know what she hath deserved. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Remembrance;vixi Puellis Nuper Idoneus;they Flee From Me;ballade: 2;the Lover Showeth How He Is Abandoned Of Such As He Onetime Enjoyed Subject(s): Despair; Dreams; Falcons; Love; Love - Loss Of; Nightmares THE MACHINATIONS OF THE MIND, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The car crash we passed when I was five Last Line: What spins and claws in our rearview mirrors. Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Habits; Housekeeping; Memory; Order; Reason; Selectivity; Violence; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE MALICE-DANCE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An intolerable singing Last Line: Round that dial of the moon! Subject(s): Beauty; Dancing & Dancers; Death; Dreams; Love; Moon; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Nightmares THE MAN WHO FELL NAKED FROM PARADISE, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Silence, the hay is sweet, and 'tis the hour of grain Last Line: Breathed by the deity. Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Happiness; Heaven; Life; Nightmares; Joy; Delight; Paradise THE MAN WHO KNEW, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dreamer visioned life as it might be Last Line: His song unsung, they found their dreamer -- dead. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE MANDOLIN, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tinkle-trink, tinkle-trink, trinkle-trinkle, trink! Last Line: Trink! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Kisses; Rome, Italy; Silence; Sleep; Nightmares THE MATIN-SONG OF FRIAR TUCK, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If souls could sing to heaven's high king Last Line: Te deum! Te deum laudamus! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Dreams; Earth; Soul; Dead, The; Nightmares; World THE MESSAGE, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From side to side the sufferer tossed Last Line: Fell back, sir, and was dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Mothers; Homecoming; Dreams; Family Life; Longing; Death; Nightmares; Relatives; Dead, The THE MONODY OF ISLA THE SINGER, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it time to let the hour rise and go forth as Last Line: And hear her voice like mournful bells crying on the wind. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Aging; Dreams; Mourning; Time; Youth; Nightmares; Bereavement THE MOONLIGHT'S DREAM, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why did I wake at night, all the house at rest? Subject(s): Family Life; Sleep; Dreams; Night; Relatives; Nightmares; Bedtime THE MULBERRY TREE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, it's many's the scenes which is dear Last Line: They go racin' acrost fer the mulberry tree. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Mulberry Trees; Youth; Nightmares THE NIGHT MIRROR, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poet's Biography First Line: What it showed was always the same Subject(s): Dreams; Mirrors; Nightmares THE OLD CHIMNEYPIECE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Outside fall the snowflakes lightly Last Line: And the kitten's burnt, alas! Subject(s): Chimney Sweepers & Chimneys; Dreams; Fire; Nightmares THE OLD MAN DREAMS, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O for one hour of youthful joy! Last Line: To please the gray-haired boys. Subject(s): Classmates; Dreams; Marriage; Old Age; Schoolmates; Nightmares; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE OLD SAINT, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: The day is gone, the solemn night draws down Last Line: God's city with the mansions of the blest. Subject(s): Dreams; Old Age; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Rest; Sleep; Nightmares THE OLD TRUNDLE-BED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O the old trundle-bed where I Last Line: Once bowed o'er my own in the old trundle-bed. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beds; Dreams; Sleep; Stars; Nightmares THE ORDER OF THE STAR OF INDIA (2), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed - methought I stood upon a strand Last Line: Of sunrise broke and yet fulfill'd my dream. Subject(s): Dreams; India; Nightmares THE OUTCAST'S DREAM, by OLIVE BELL Poem Text First Line: From morn till noon the golden glow Last Line: Some old home song or old love strain? Subject(s): Dreams; Pennsylvania; Nightmares THE PALACE, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wilt thou? Let us make a dream Last Line: But you will open the door. Subject(s): Dreams; Halloween; Nightmares THE PARALLAX MONOGRAPH FOR RODIN, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamt, last night, of your stone cabinet, porte de l'enfer Last Line: "it's hell, of course." Subject(s): Dreams; Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917); Sculpture & Sculptors; Secrets; Sex; Nightmares THE PASSING SHOW, by AMBROSE BIERCE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know not if it was a dream. I viewed Last Line: A wolf sat howling on a broken tomb. Subject(s): Cities; Death; Dreams; Sleep; Soul; Urban Life; Dead, The; Nightmares THE PATHS OF PEACE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He would have holiday - outworn Last Line: Of all his loveliest dreams! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Forests; Peace; Spring; Youth; Nightmares; Woods THE PHANTOM FLEET, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sunset lingered in the pale green west Last Line: Then -- that high fleet of stars led on the night. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; England; Evening; Peace; Soul; Dead, The; Nightmares; English; Sunset; Twilight THE PITCHER, by YUAN CHEN Poem Text First Line: I dreamt I climbed to a high, high plain Last Line: Streamed from my eyes and fell on the collar of my dress. Alternate Author Name(s): Wei-chih Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 137, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I dreamt I went home Last Line: And my temples weren't their old color Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Dreams; Homecoming; Marriage; Nightmares; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE POET IN THE EAST, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The poet came to the land of the east Last Line: And the dream deceives no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Dreams; Poetry & Poets; Soul; Sun; Nightmares THE POET'S DREAM, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sunset streaming o'er the river Last Line: All his soul and mind doth fill! Subject(s): Dreams; Poetry & Poets; Rhyme; Nightmares THE POET'S JOURNAL: A SYMBOL, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heavy, and hot, and gray Last Line: Thou dust punish us with blessing! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Life; Time; Dead, The; Nightmares THE POET'S JOURNAL: A WOMAN, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She is a woman: therefore, I a man Last Line: But man's true mother, and his equal wife. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Dreams; Faith; Life; Love; Women; Nightmares; Belief; Creed THE POET'S JOURNAL: AUTUMNAL DREAMS, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the maple turns to crimson Last Line: In the autumns of the past! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Autumn; Dreams; Life; Past; Seasons; Fall; Nightmares THE POET'S JOURNAL: THE VISION, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She came, long absent from my side Last Line: And still, in passing, smiled. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Peace; Singing & Singers; Vision; Nightmares THE PROFFERED CUP, by MARY SINTON LEITCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night across the meadows of a dream Last Line: And so . . . Still singing . . . Passed into the night. Subject(s): Cups; Dreams; Fountain Of Youth; Immortality; Sacrifices; Nightmares THE QUESTION, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: May darkness write the words dawn must not read? Last Line: But dare not breathe their message to the rose. Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Nightmares; Bedtime THE REALMS OF GOLD, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the palms of san diego Last Line: A song that had out-soared death. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Gold; Poetry & Poets; San Diego, California; Dead, The; Nightmares THE REGAL DREAM, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on the day that bosworth field was won Last Line: Eternally to mourn a matchless queen. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dreams; Grief; Mourning; Prophecy & Prophets; Story-telling; War; Dead, The; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement THE REGRET, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If inclination ruled the hour Last Line: Levi bishop. Subject(s): Dreams; Happiness; Regret; Nightmares; Joy; Delight THE REPUBLIC OF DREAMS, by PALMER. MICHAEL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: She lay so still that Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE RETURN, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He stood above the well-known shore Last Line: No, never, never, more. Subject(s): Dreams; Past; Nightmares THE REWARD OF SONG, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why do we make our music? Last Line: And love is its one reward. Subject(s): Dreams; Fame; Love; Music & Musicians; Rewards; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Reputation THE RIDE, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The horse beneath me seemed Subject(s): Dreams; Horseback Riding; Storms; Nightmares THE RING-DOVE, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Mid beechy umbrage, bosky dell Last Line: Brief solace for my wounded mind. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Love; Memory; Shadows; Nightmares THE RIVER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a mighty river that I knew Last Line: In that dim land that lies beyond our dreams. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Rivers; Swimming & Swimmers; Dead, The; Nightmares; Swimmers THE ROMAUNT OF KING MORDAMEER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! Did ye hear of mordameer Last Line: And met him face to face. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Dreams; Fantasy; Sleep; Nightmares THE ROMAUNT OF MARGRET, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I plant a tree whose leaf Last Line: Margret, margret. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Longing; Courts & Courtiers; Dreams; Failure; Longing; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Nightmares THE ROSE OF FLAME, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, fair immaculate rose of the world, rose of my dream, my rose! Last Line: O fair immaculate rose of the world, rose of my dream, my rose! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Peace; Roses; Salvation; Spiritual Life; Nightmares THE ROSE ON THE WIND, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dip and swing! Last Line: Lift and sway! Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE ROSE-LADY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dream that you are kisses allah Last Line: For having kissed the dust beneath my feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; God; Kisses; Roses; Nightmares THE SAINTS, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heaven won't have to do with its multitudes Subject(s): Dreams; Evil; Nightmares THE SEARCH FOR LEAVEN, by ALTER ABELSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like a tender, loving maiden Last Line: Often dreaming on the broom. Subject(s): Absence; Dreams; Jews; Separation; Isolation; Nightmares; Judaism THE SECRET PLACE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I shake off the outer things Last Line: I fare me forth my fate to greet. Subject(s): Dreams; Fate; Love; Rhyme; Soul; Nightmares; Destiny THE SERENADE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The midnight is not more bewildering Last Line: Like some vast bubble blown of summer noon. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Roses; Singing & Singers; Summer; Nightmares THE SEVEN OLD MEN; TO VICTOR HUGO, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Teeming city, full of dreams, where in broad / daylight the specter grips Last Line: Without masts, on a monstrous, shoreless sea! Subject(s): Aging; Dreams; Nightmares THE SHEARER'S DREAM, by HENRY HERTZBERG LAWSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, I dreamt I shore in a shearin'-shed, and it was a dream of joy Last Line: When I woke with my head in the blazin' sun to find 'twas a shearer's dream. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE SIGN: 2, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But often at night something asks Last Line: And the snake coiled bleeding at its center. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Nightmares; Bedtime THE SINGING FLOWER, by GONG PEIYU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am already a singing flower Last Line: Your singing flower. Alternate Author Name(s): Shu Ting; Shu Ding Subject(s): China - Democracy; Chinese Literature; Dreams; Poetry & Poets; Sea; Water; Nightmares; Ocean THE SISTERS' DREAM, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sleeps! But not the free and sunny sleep Last Line: Where, where should sisters love, if not on high? Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Dreams; Sisters; Nightmares THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 92, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Who, waking as from sleep, bewilder'd gazed Last Line: O speak! For thy soft eyes compassion waken.' Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Memory; Nightmares THE SKY-GYPSY, by WALTER BARDECK Poem Text First Line: I long / to sweep the sky Last Line: On some strange shore. Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Seashore; Nightmares; Bedtime; Beach; Coast; Shore THE SLEEP OF SIGISMUND, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The doom'd king pacing all night through the windy fallow Last Line: And their children after them. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Dreams; Love; Marriage; Night; Sleep; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Nightmares; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bedtime THE SLEEPER, by JESSICA NELSON NORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O heavy breather in the surf of sleep Last Line: My wife. Alternate Author Name(s): Macdonald, Reed I., Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Sleep; Nightmares THE SLEEPERS, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No map traces the street Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Sleep; Dreams; Nightmares THE SOLDIER BOY'S DREAM, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A soldier boy lay dreaming Last Line: Of liberty, new found. Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): American Civil War; Dreams; Freedom; Soldiers; United States - History; Nightmares; Liberty THE SOLDIER'S DREAM, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our bugles sang truce, - for the night-cloud had lowered Last Line: And the voice in my dreaming ear melted away. Subject(s): Dreams; Home; Soldiers; War; Nightmares THE SONG OF FIONULA, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, sleep, brothers dear, sleep and dream Last Line: To sleep and dream, ah, that is well indeed! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Brothers; Comfort; Death; Dreams; Sleep; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Nightmares THE SONG OF YESTERDAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But yesterday / I looked away Last Line: Of glory gleam the days of yore. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Past; Nightmares THE SOWER, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the sunset lands Last Line: Sowing the dreams of men! Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE SPHINX, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know all about the sphinx Last Line: She was just cut out for that! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Egypt; Silence; Sphinx; Statues; Nightmares THE STALLION OF NIGHT, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the soft, gray-breasted even like a carrier-dove / goes freed Last Line: Who stamps at the fords of the starlight, and neighs at the gates of the moon! Subject(s): Dreams; Heaven; Moon; Night; Silence; Nightmares; Paradise; Bedtime THE STAR'S MONUMENT; CONCLUDING PART OF A DISCOURSE ON FAME, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If there be memory in the world to come Last Line: That gaze up dying into alien skies. Subject(s): Dreams; Fame; Life; Love; Memory; Monuments; Poetry & Poets; Nightmares; Reputation THE STUDENT; A FANTASIA, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sat the student alone in his chamber Last Line: The worship and praise of the sire! Subject(s): Dreams; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Youth; Nightmares THE SUSQUEHANNA AND THE DELAWARE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of where or how, I nothing know Last Line: Beside the susquehanna and along the delaware. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Dreams; Rivers; Travel; Nightmares; Journeys; Trips THE SWALLOW, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Foolish prater, what dost thou Last Line: Tho' men say thou bring'st the spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Dreams; Swallows; Nightmares THE SWISS COTTAGE, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye gastric graces of pall mall Last Line: Is bright illumination. Subject(s): Dreams; Fate; Youth; Nightmares; Destiny THE TEA TRADER, by DANIEL MACINTYRE HENDERSON Poem Text First Line: Jackson at his counter packing tea Last Line: In mcconnell's grocery store! Subject(s): Dreams; Food & Eating; Grocers; Tea; Nightmares THE THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 14, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You alone, / a white robe over your naked body Subject(s): Bodies; Desire; Dreams; Past; Nightmares THE TIME OF DREAMS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: What sweet, what happy days had I Last Line: When dreams made time eternity! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE TOMBLESS MAN; A DREAM, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I woke from sleep at midnight; all was dark Last Line: And the glad waters murmuring to the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Calm; Dreams; Silence; Sleep; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Nightmares THE TREMOLO, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: I have seen her to-night in a vision Last Line: I doubt, in distress. Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Love - Unrequited; Man-woman Relationships; Nightmares; Male-female Relations THE TRYST OF SOULS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Low hung the moon, the wind was still Last Line: Till stars and shadows yield to day. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Fathers; Dead, The; Nightmares THE TWO DREAMS, by GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will that if I say a heavy thing Last Line: "here dead she lieth, for whose sake love is dead." Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Gardens & Gardening; God; Love; Dead, The; Nightmares THE TWO DREAMS, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I met one in the land of sleep Last Line: So both were only dreams. Subject(s): Dreams; Friendship; Life; Love; Sleep; Nightmares THE TWO HOMES, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My home was seated high and fair Last Line: "and the weary life of the valley!" Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Home; Storms; Nightmares THE UNATTAINED, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A vision beauteous as the morn Last Line: "all shall pursue, but none shall claim me." Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Desire; Dreams; Vision; Nightmares THE UNION, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You that have gathered together the sons of all races Last Line: One singing star of the world. Subject(s): Dreams; Flags; Freedom; Mankind; Nations; Tears; Nightmares; Liberty; Human Race THE UNKNOWN, by EMILE DESCHAMPS DE SAINT AMAND Poem Text First Line: I saw in dream a fair unknown Last Line: Alas! It was a dream indeed! Alternate Author Name(s): Deschamps, Emile Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE UNKNOWN WOMAN, by ALEXANDER (ALEKSANDR) ALEXANDROVICH BLOK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I have foreknown thee! Oh, I have foreknown thee Last Line: Yet terror clings to me. Thy image will be strange. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Facades; Shadows; Women; Dead, The; Nightmares; Appearances THE USED-TO-BE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the purple, hazy trees Last Line: The lips of used-to-be. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Loss; Summer; Trees; Nightmares THE VALLEY OF PALE BLUE FLOWERS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a hidden valley a pale blue flower grows Last Line: My soul slowly, slowly, slowly, will sink to its ultimate hour. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Memory; Nothingness; Salvation; Youth; Nightmares; Nihilism; Voids THE VEILED AVENGER; A FRAGMENT, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am he Last Line: His own bitter infinite cry we hear him cry! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Comfort; Despair; Dreams; Pity; Redemption; Spiritual Life; Nightmares THE VESPER CHIME, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a spirit comes to me Last Line: And sounds the vesper chime. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Shadows; Nightmares; Bedtime THE VISION OF HIS PEOPLE, by LEON GORDON Poem Text First Line: Ere yet the morn in glory rose Last Line: I saw my people—horrid sight! Subject(s): Dreams; Jews; Jews - Persecution; Nightmares; Judaism THE VISIONARY, by MARY ENOLA RUDOLPH Poem Text First Line: They call me mad - a luckless dreamer - I Last Line: Yet I -- I shall grow old remembering. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE VOICE OF THE GUMBO BLUFF, by THELMA HILL WARD Poem Text First Line: I am the voice of the gumbo bluff Last Line: I am much more than earth. Subject(s): Dreams; Immortality; Nightmares THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: A DREAM, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had a quiet dream last night Last Line: That I could not speak a word. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Dreams; Netherlands; Travel; Nightmares; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: GOING BACK AGAIN, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed that I walked in italy Last Line: A knife across her throat. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Variant Title(s): Check To Song Subject(s): Dreams; Murder; Netherlands; Travel; Nightmares; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WAYSIDE DREAM, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The deep and lordly danube Last Line: And keep the sunset's gold. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Danube (river); Dreams; Home; Nightmares THE WEAVER OF DREAMS, by MARJORIE EDITH KAHL Poem Text First Line: The weaver of dreams is a gay little man Last Line: "finds infinite joy in the giving." Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE WEAVER OF SNOW, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In polar noons when the moonshine glimmers Last Line: The weaver of snow. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Fairies; Girls; Laughter; Snow; Weavers And Weaving; Nightmares; Elves THE WEED, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed that dead, and meditating Last Line: For a year, a minute, an hour Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE WESTERN WINDS, by JOHN WALSH (1835-1881) Poem Text First Line: A maiden sat on an ocean-steep Last Line: The golden brim of the western wave. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE WILD WIND, by SARA NICHOLS Poem Text First Line: It's only on nights like this Last Line: Childhood memory. Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Gulls; Youth; Nightmares THE WINDOWS, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Funeral dream Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE WOMAN IN THE ROOM, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: She stands at the foot my bed and starts to speak Subject(s): Dreams; Silence; Man-woman Relationships; Nightmares; Male-female Relations THE WOMEN YOU ARE ACCUSTOMED TO, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wearing that same black dress Last Line: Your burning blood, your dancing tongue. Subject(s): Dreams; Women; Nightmares THE WOOD, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a knight once rode from out the sun Last Line: Or came unto the marsh, I never knew. Subject(s): Dreams; Eyes; Forests; Knights & Knighthood; Nightmares; Woods THE WOOD, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come with me to the mossy places Last Line: If I kissed you, the wood-gods would not tell! Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Forests; Kisses; Life; Tears; Dead, The; Nightmares; Woods THE WORLD OF DREAM, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, through the dusk Last Line: Of the world of dream. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE WORLD OF DREAMS, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And is thy soul so wrapt in sleep? Last Line: Tis made! -- and I to freedom wake! Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE WORLD'S DESIRE, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pain of too poignant beauty fills the heart Last Line: Desire for thee to end thy long seclusion! Subject(s): Desire; Dreams; Pain; Nightmares; Suffering; Misery THE WORLD'S DESIRE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty is like a star Last Line: Melody, fragrance and fire! Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Dreams; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Sleep; Nightmares THE WOUND, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I woke the darkness was so thick, Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THE YEAR, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What can be said in new year rhymes Last Line: And that's the burden of the year. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Fear; Holidays; Hope; New Year; Nightmares; Optimism THE YOUTH DREAMS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, I should love to be like one of those Last Line: And still our horses rustle like the rain. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THEY FEED THEY LION, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of burlap sacks, out of bearing butter Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Food & Eating; Industry; Labor & Laborers; Lions; Nightmares; Work; Workers THINGS WE DREAMT WE DIED FOR, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flags of all sorts Last Line: By the many who have not one. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Literature; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Nightmares THOUGH BIRDS HAVE FLOWN, by BETTIE MARGOT CASSIE Poem Text First Line: Now that the trees are stripped of all their fire Last Line: Though birds have flown the trees still harbor nests. Subject(s): Autumn; Birds; Dreams; Seasons; Trees; Fall; Nightmares THOUGHT DREAMS, by LILLIAN VIGGERS Poem Text First Line: Constant waves of beauty come Last Line: And exalt the heart of man. Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Travel; Nightmares; Journeys; Trips THREE FATES: 1, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O dreamer, follow fast the star Last Line: The couch is flowered for you. Subject(s): Dreams; Fate; Future Life; Rest; Nightmares; Destiny; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THREE NIGHT SONGS: 1, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He waits to happen with the clear Last Line: So bright and clear and cold. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Dreams; Longing; Night; Nightmares; Bedtime THROUGH ALL MY DREAMING, by TESLA V. LENNSTREND Poem Text Last Line: Sounds a silver song. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares THY DREAMS ARE THE DEEDS OF MEN, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Or mighty sons now sleeping and of mighty sons to be Last Line: Till our infantry win victory 'neath the flag of brother-hood. Subject(s): Dartmouth College; Dreams; Youth; Nightmares TO A BAVARIAN GIRL, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, bavaria's brown-eyed daughter Last Line: Flower of isar's vale! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Danube (river); Dreams; Germany; Girls; Life; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Germans TO A BUNCH OF LILAC, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: Is it the april springing Last Line: And long but to love, and die. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Hope; Life; Lilacs; Love; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Optimism TO A CARDIGANSHIRE SHEPHERD-POET (A GREETING), by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like the cistercian, who fled Last Line: Bringeth his flock to fold. Subject(s): Dreams; Immortality; Wales; Nightmares; Welshmen; Welshwomen TO A SEAMEW, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I had wings, my brother Last Line: Beachy head, september, 1886. Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Sailing & Sailors; Storms; Wings; Nightmares TO A SLEEPING MAID, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Do not rudely wake her, nor reproach Last Line: That finds in dreams a world more fair than this. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Sleep; Women; Nightmares TO A STRANGER, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I lay and dreamed of you Last Line: Till I have dreamed my dream away! Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares TO A SUCCESSFUL MAN; (WHAT THE GHOSTS SAID), by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And after all the labour and the pains Last Line: In your last dreams they may come back to you. Subject(s): Courage; Dreams; Faces; Fame; Labor & Laborers; Love; Valor; Bravery; Nightmares; Reputation; Work; Workers TO A WATER LILY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "dream, dream / perfume-laden one!" Last Line: Drowsy in dream! Subject(s): Dreams;flowers;lilies;perfume;sleep; Nightmares TO BALLYQUIN FOR DREAMS, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And I shall go to ballyquin Last Line: My secret dreams forevermore. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares TO C. M. D., by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If it be true, as some have dreamed Last Line: Still you with me and I with you. Subject(s): Dreams; Poetry & Poets; Sea; Soul; Nightmares; Ocean TO DREAMS, by MARY JULIA YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Hail. Gentle spirits, who with magic wing Last Line: I owe such bliss, yet know not what you are! Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares TO EACH HIS DREAM, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With each his little, secret dream Last Line: Throws back a wonder on each face! Subject(s): Dreams; Lies; Life; Love; Soul; Tears; Time; Nightmares TO FLORENCE, by ULYSSES GOLDBERG Poem Text First Line: The breathing of the night mingles quietly with the Last Line: So my fluttering dreams swarm eagerly to you. Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Nightmares TO HELEN KELLER, by BABETTE DEUTSCH Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: You live in a country stranger than the moon Last Line: And from the grown soul's deep and arrowy voice. Alternate Author Name(s): Yarmolinsky, Avrahm, Mrs. Subject(s): Blindness; Dreams; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Night; Soul; Visually Handicapped; Nightmares; Bedtime TO HELEN KELLER, by COVINGTON HALL Poem Text First Line: You who never saw the sun-flamed hills Last Line: Be evermore your slave. Alternate Author Name(s): Ami, Covington; Ami, Covami Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Youth; Nightmares TO HIS MISTRESS, WHO DREAMED HE WAS WOUNDED, by GIOVANNI BATTISTA GUARINI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thine eyes, bright saint, disclose Last Line: Open or closed alike they wound. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares TO JOHN KEATS, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Severn, I feel the flowers o'er me grow,' Last Line: Greening above you in eternal spring. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Flowers; Funerals; Future Life; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Nightmares; Burials; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TO L.C.P., by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the slow-moving shadows on the grass Last Line: From the sad eyes of dark mnemosyne. Subject(s): Dreams; Eyes; Heaven; Life; Nature; Youth; Nightmares; Paradise TO L.H.B., by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night for the first time since you were dead Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Dreams; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Nightmares TO LINA, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lina, rival of the linnet Last Line: Might be trancing as a dream. Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Nightmares TO M. S. G. (2), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I dream that you love me, you'll surely forgive Last Line: To awake will be torture sufficient. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Nightmares TO MARIAN POWYS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh lace-maker, what joys, what fears Last Line: And a dream beyond this dream? Subject(s): Dreams; Fear; Happiness; Sleep; Nightmares; Joy; Delight TO MARIE, by JOHN BENNETT (1865-1956) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the breeze from the bluebottle's ... Blim Last Line: "panky-doodle ker-chuggetty-chug!" Subject(s): Dreams; Nonsense; Soul; Nightmares TO MONTACUTE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou at memory's holiest shrine caressed Last Line: Is to the heart that loves already given. Subject(s): Birds; Children; Dreams; Love; Memory; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Sleep; Childhood; Nightmares TO MY MOTHER, by HELEN WIDOFF Poem Text First Line: Visible through an avalanche of tears Last Line: To find the lost sun that had once shone. Subject(s): Dreams; Hallucinations And Illusions; Memory; Nightmares TO ONE WHO SPOKE OF ETERNAL THINGS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hush! For the shadow of a flower Last Line: More than eternity. Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Future Life; Trees; Worship; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TO R.D., MARCH 4TH 1988, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You were my mentor. Without knowing it, Subject(s): Dreams; Man-woman Relationships; Death; Nightmares; Male-female Relations; Dead, The TO SAPPHO, by MARGUERITE E. ROSEBERY Poem Text First Line: Oh lonely lyric sappho Last Line: The glory of a dream. Subject(s): Absence; Dreams; Solitude; Tears; Separation; Isolation; Nightmares; Loneliness TO SLEEP, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! How far away it seems Last Line: If thou wilt come to-morrow, sleep. Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares TO SLEEP, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, sleep! But mind ye! If you come without Last Line: For all your poppy-heads and all your down. Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares TO SLEEP, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear fool, be true to me! Last Line: Make me all night the innocent fool that dreams. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares TO THE BELOVED, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You were a part of the green country Last Line: And wake, alas! To the lonely places. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Grief; Love; Mourning; Solitude; Dead, The; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; Loneliness TO THE SKY, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Tis beauty's feast to scan thy shifting play Last Line: And what thy wisdom holds our need we blindly miss! Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Love; Truth; Nightmares TO THE SPIRIT OF DREAMS, by AGNES STRICKLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit! Who to shrouded eyes Last Line: Shades of glory on the mind. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares TO YOU WHOM I SAW ONCE, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I remember / that your eyes were tranquil Last Line: And secret dreams. Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Love - Beginnings; Memory; Passion; Nightmares TO YOUNG DREAMERS, by LUCIA TRENT Poem Text First Line: Above dark cities build Last Line: Of the wide, impossible sky! Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Mrs. Ralph; Glass, Mrs. Ernest Subject(s): Dreams; Faith; Nightmares; Belief; Creed TO-NIGHT ACROSS THE SEA, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To-night I sent a dream across the sea Last Line: The mournful seas impart. Subject(s): Dreams; Sea; Nightmares; Ocean TOAD DREAMS, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dream of toads: we rarely Subject(s): Dreams; Animals; Conduct Of Life; Nightmares TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. THE DREAM GOES BY, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dream goes by, touches men's hearts, and floats and fades again Last Line: And floats, and waits, again. Subject(s): Dreams; Labor & Laborers; Nightmares; Work; Workers TRAGEDIES: 1, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: She was a dancer, - I was the master Last Line: In a laughing wanton's bed! Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Dreams; Heaven; Night; Tragedy; Nightmares; Paradise; Bedtime TRAGEDIES: 10, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: The river's mouth is weary wide Last Line: And mingled and melted over the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Moon; Rivers; Nightmares TRAGEDIES: 3, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: My little love, my lily wan Last Line: I'll drift you into the endless sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Love; Moon; Night; Sea; Sleep; Nightmares; Bedtime; Ocean TRAGEDIES: 8, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: I dream'd I was in sicily Last Line: I'd tied at the headstone long ago. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Dreams; Graves; Sicily; Trees; Nightmares; Tombs; Tombstones TRAVELING DREAM, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am packing to go to the airport Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dreams; Travel; Nightmares; Journeys; Trips TREASURE SONG, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The miser loves to count his store Last Line: So dear, and only seeming! Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Dreams; Wealth; Nightmares; Riches; Fortunes TROPICS, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the still morning when you move Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Sleep; Tropics; Nightmares TRUE LIGHT, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O hast thou nothing but thy dreams Last Line: In that true light of living dreams. Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Nightmares TURVEY TOP, by WILLIAM SAWYER Poem Text First Line: Twas after a supper of norfolk brawn Last Line: And would flourish in turvey top. Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Life; Nonsense; Nightmares TWILIGHT, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, let us go Last Line: Only the long, long love 'twixt thee and me. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Dreams; Evening; Sleep; Nightmares; Sunset; Twilight TWILIGHT, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The first glad breath of day is dear Last Line: One small dream changes to a star! Subject(s): Dreams; May (month); Nightmares TWILIGHT AUDITION, by MARTITIA M. MOORE Poem Text First Line: I muse - a drowsy film bewreaths my world Last Line: My soul exultant floats in ecstasy! Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares TWILIGHT DREAMS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: They come in the quiet twilight hour Last Line: For the toil of coming day Subject(s): Dreams;evening; Nightmares;sunset;twilight TWO PARTED, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sing of a love lost and forgotten Last Line: "-- ""oh for the silence that stilleth all sighs."" --" Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Sea; Nightmares; Ocean TYRANNICK [TYRANNIC] LOVE: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah how sweet it is to love Last Line: Tis but rain, and runs not clear. Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Sleep; Virginity; Nightmares; Vestals TYRANNICK [TYRANNIC] LOVE: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah how sweet it is to love Last Line: Tis but rain, and runs not clear. Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Sleep; Virginity; Nightmares; Vestals ULTIMO SOSPIRO, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Joy of the world / o flower-crown'd spring Last Line: O sighs of longing. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Rome, Italy; Spring; Nightmares ULTRAISTA ONEIRIC, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dream vortices broadcast / humorous din Last Line: Bounces into unsteady calm Subject(s): Dreams; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Nightmares; Ocean UNANSWERED LETTER TO A LADY NOVELIST, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Neither her voice, her name Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Nightmares UNFORGOTTEN DREAMS, by CHARLES HENRY MACKINTOSH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I walked one evening in a city slum Last Line: "beloved, may you live these dreams some day!" Subject(s): Dreams; Poverty; Nightmares UNFULFILMENT, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see an upland pasture, clover-blown Last Line: That I am not the figure of the dreams. Subject(s): Boys; Children; Dreams; Childhood; Nightmares UNITY, by VIRGINIA WOODWARD CLOUD Poem Text First Line: A sombre pine is stirred Last Line: And brushed by the bird's soft wing. Subject(s): Dreams; Pine Trees; Nightmares UNREALISED, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not yet, not yet, beloved! Last Line: Forget, forget, my dream. Subject(s): Dreams; Kisses; Love; Nightmares UNSPOKEN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O he can hold her hand, and full Last Line: There lives a love unspeakably sub lime. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Happiness; Love; Soul; Nightmares; Joy; Delight UP AGAINST IT, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wall was white, whitewash lime Last Line: The small leaves trembling with light. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Dreams; Garcia Lorca, Federico (1898-1936); Murder; Walls; Nightmares URANIA TO HER FRIEND PARTHENISSA; A DREAM, by THOMAS FLATMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a soft vision of the night Last Line: But parthenissa smil'd, and then she disappear'd. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares VAIN DREAMS, by JOSEPH MARIE SOULARY Poem Text First Line: Had I but an acre of loam on hill or valley Last Line: Holds no more for me than a fickle dream that fades. Subject(s): Dreams; Home; Nightmares VARIATIONS: 11, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This night I dreamed that you shone before me Last Line: And now I have lost you. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares VARIATIONS: 14, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful body made of ivory Last Line: Quietly you possess me. Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Nightmares VARIATIONS: 18, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun distills a golden light, Last Line: For the sky is everywhere. Subject(s): Dreams; Solitude; Nightmares VERSES WRITTEN BY MRS. HUTCHINSON, by LUCY HUTCHINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All sorts of men through various labours presse Last Line: Or where is man soe uncontroul'd a lord? Subject(s): Dreams; Freedom; Grief; Life; Nightmares; Liberty; Sorrow; Sadness VIA DOLOROSA: 7. THE LAST WORD, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So many a dream and hope that went and came Last Line: And bids fare forth the soul it bids fare well. Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Nightmares VIOLIN SONGS: A DREAM SONG, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed of a song - I heard it sung Subject(s): Dreams; Future Life; God; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life VISION, by KATIE F. NICHOLS Poem Text First Line: Here lies a dreamer Last Line: Shall make it less. Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Vision; Nightmares VISION AT TWILIGHT, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lamps are lit: I gaze into the dark Subject(s): Night; Dreams; Bedtime; Nightmares VISION OR DREAM, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: On a bed of soft mosses, I lay 'neath the trees Last Line: He went as he came—in vision or dream. Subject(s): Bible; Books; Dreams; Knowledge; Modern Man; Religious Education; Teaching & Teachers; Reading; Nightmares; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools; Educators; Professors VISIONS, by DAVID LEE MAULSBY Poem Text First Line: Oh, happy land, with castles fair Last Line: Within the veil withdrawn -- in dreams? Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares VISIONS: 1, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of love's wild glow I dreamt in former days Last Line: An airy breath to that dim shade I blow. Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Nightmares VISIONS: 10, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I oft have pale spectres before now Last Line: Sweet love. O lovest thou me? Subject(s): Dreams; Ghosts; Love; Supernatural; Nightmares VISIONS: 2, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A dream both strange and sad to see Last Line: Headlong I fell, and -- woke from sleep. Subject(s): Birds; Dreams; Flowers; Hearts; Time; Nightmares VISIONS: 3, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In midnight vision I myself have spied Last Line: Deceived me oft, I trust ye still as blindly! Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares VISIONS: 4, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In dream I saw a tiny manikin Last Line: "and thousand laughing devils cried ""amen!" Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares VISIONS: 5, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why stirs and chafes my madden'd blood? Last Line: She blush'd, well pleased with what she heard. Subject(s): Anger; Dreams; Evil; Nightmares VISIONS: 6, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In blissful dream, in silent night Last Line: "thou'rt ours for all eternity!" Subject(s): Dreams; Heaven; Hope; Night; Nightmares; Paradise; Optimism; Bedtime VISIONS: 7, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou now hast the money, -- why longer delay? Last Line: "for ever, amen!"" the old mother exclaims." Subject(s): Dreams; Marriage; Nightmares; Weddings; Husbands; Wives VISIONS: 8, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I came from the house of my mistress dear Last Line: And the spirits rush'd back to their graves with a yell Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Silence; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Songs VISIONS: 9, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was asleep, and calmly slept Last Line: The pale-as-marble maid. Subject(s): Blood; Dreams; Love; Pain; Nightmares; Suffering; Misery VISTAS OF LABOR: 2. THE MINER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up creaks the car; he leaves his ghastly dream Last Line: And once again life is a nightmare dream. Subject(s): Dreams; Fear; God; Life; Love; Mines & Miners; Nightmares WAKING, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lying beneath a hundred seas of sleep Last Line: Except the man that woke and then was I. Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares WAKING AT DUSK FROM A NAP, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the years that pass through Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares WAKING, SLEEPING, DREAMING, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Wake, the day is breaking Last Line: Turn the clocks around. Subject(s): Clocks; Day; Dreams; Time; Nightmares WALKING TO SLEEP, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As a queen sits down, knowing that a chair will be there Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares WAR, by GEORGE STERLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night was on the world, and in my sleep Last Line: Men rose and made a second sacrifice. Subject(s): Dreams; Military; War; Nightmares WAR IS KIND: 11, by STEPHEN CRANE Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: On the desert / a silence from the moon's deepest valley Last Line: Is in the dance of the whispering snakes. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dreams; Snakes; War; Dead, The; Nightmares; Serpents; Vipers WARNING, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: Dream not of a new heaven, lad Last Line: Dreamers die on crosses. Subject(s): Dreams; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Nightmares WARRIORS OF THE DREAM, by HERMANN HAGEDORN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They pushed their glowing joys aside Last Line: "is to give all to a dream!" Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares WASHING MY FACE, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night's dreams disappear Last Line: A transparent rose swallowed by its stem. Subject(s): Dreams; Faces; Introspection; Past; Nightmares WAYFARERS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind is very cold! Last Line: "follow the wind!" Subject(s): Cities; Dreams; Memory; Sea; Soul; Wind; Urban Life; Nightmares; Ocean WE HAVE DREAMED TOO MUCH OF GOLD, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: We have followed the monster mammon on the broad Last Line: While out in the lovelit gardens the lonely roses blow. Subject(s): Dreams; Gold; Money; Nightmares WEBS, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, they spread out their silver webs Last Line: And cannot slip away? Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares WESTWARD PAGEANT, by LUCILLE BURTON Poem Text First Line: Always the westward pageant; always man Last Line: Aye! It is so! -- march on, o caravan! Subject(s): Caravans; Dreams; Pioneers; Travel; Nightmares; Journeys; Trips WHAT BOBBIE DREAMED, by DOROTHY HAIGHT Poem Text First Line: Please let me in, st. Peter Last Line: For letting me come through. Subject(s): Dreams; Heaven; Nightmares; Paradise WHAT JEWEL IS LEFT?, by SARAH M. HOWARD Poem Text First Line: What shall my empty eyes behold Last Line: When the very spark is dead? Subject(s): Dreams; Jewelry & Jewelers; Night; Nightmares; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces; Bedtime WHAT SHALL ENDURE?, by JAMES CHRISTIAN LINDBERG Poem Text First Line: The poet squanders time in idle dreams Last Line: The dreamer's song, perchance, outlasts them all. Subject(s): Dreams; Hope; Labor & Laborers; Poetry & Poets; Nightmares; Optimism; Work; Workers WHAT THEY ASK, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Always they greet you and say Last Line: "and what have you been doing?" Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Dreams; Thought; Nightmares; Thinking WHAT THEY DREAMED AND SAID, by M. E. Poem Text First Line: Rose dreamed she was a lily Last Line: "but I'm very glad I'm me." Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares WHAT WAS MY DREAM?, by JOSEPH O'CONNOR Poem Text Last Line: Love's sigh its harbinger? What was my dream? Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares WHAT?, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strengthening as secret manna Last Line: But oh how sweet the stream. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Memory; Nightmares WHEN BABY SLEPT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When weenty - teenty baby Last Line: When baby donned her dreams, and slept. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Babies; Dreams; Sleep; Infants; Nightmares WHEN BABY WOKE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When weenty - teenty baby woke Last Line: When baby woke, -- when baby woke. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Babies; Dreams; Sleep; Tears; Infants; Nightmares WHEN DREAMS DEPART, by JULIA CAROLINE RIPLEY DORR Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: When dreams depart, then it is time to die Last Line: When they depart, it is thyself that dies. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares WHEN GRAZIELLA SINGS, by CHARLOTTE ROBERTA MISH Poem Text First Line: There is a tender little song you sing Last Line: The gentle dreamer lives, I think, again. Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Spring; Nightmares; Bedtime WHEN THERE IS PEACE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is peace on the sea tonight Last Line: Amid the earthquakes of death. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Fish & Fishing; God; Love; Peace; Dead, The; Nightmares WHERE FLOWN, O PEACE?, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: O peace, that lies within beloved arms Last Line: Yon smile of iron lips nightmared from out the mouth of hell. Subject(s): Dreams; Peace; Nightmares WHERE IT WAS AT BACK THEN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Husband, / last night I dreamt Subject(s): Marriage; Dreams; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Nightmares WHERE YOUR FEET GO, by JOSEPH AUSLANDER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where your feet go no wind stirs Last Line: On my lids the gradual seal. Subject(s): Dreams; Nature; Sleep; Wind; Nightmares WHILE CIGARETTES TO ASHES TURN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He smokes - and that's enough,' Last Line: While cigarettes to ashes turn. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Night; Smoking; Nightmares; Bedtime; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes WHILE THE MUSICIAN PLAYED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O it was but a dream I had Last Line: That voyaged with the crew. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Variant Title(s): A Dream (2) Subject(s): Dreams; Sea; Nightmares; Ocean WHY DOES ONE DREAM OF THEM?, by MARTHA RONK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The foreign objects are related to the accent Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares WINDOW TRIMMER, by MARGARET LEE ASHLEY Poem Text First Line: He took some little, dark-red shoes Last Line: I wonder what became of him? Subject(s): Art & Artists; Dreams; Windows; Nightmares WISHING, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I reflect how little I have done Last Line: When his new world rose from the charmed deep. Subject(s): Dreams; Happiness; Soul; Wishes; Nightmares; Joy; Delight WITCH WIFE AND I, by SARA BARD FIELD Poem Text First Line: When the moon has poured her light Last Line: Day has brought you back to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Wood, Charles Erskine Scoot, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Gays & Lesbians; Love; Witchcraft & Witches; Nightmares; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men WITCHERY, by FRANK DEMPSTER SHERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the purple drifts Last Line: Comes now the moth-white moon! Subject(s): Dreams; Moon; Night; Sea; Witchcraft & Witches; Nightmares; Bedtime; Ocean WITHDRAWALS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look on his face, so aged, so set, so white Last Line: Death. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Faces; Hope; Life; Love; Dead, The; Nightmares; Optimism WITHIN A DREAMER'S HAND, by VIRGINIA SCOTT Poem Text First Line: The dreamer wandering down a lonely beach Last Line: Or treads the land that hardy viking found! Alternate Author Name(s): O'neill, Virginia Scott Subject(s): Dreams; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Nightmares WOMAN TO LOVER, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am fire / stilled to water Last Line: I am the way to die. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Love; Women; Dead, The; Nightmares WOOD MAGIC, by FRANCES HALLEY BROCKETT Poem Text First Line: Sun's rays a-slantin' clear across the wood Last Line: Feels like I'm growin' here, brother to the tree. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares WORLD OF MY DREAMS, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: Something softly at close of day Last Line: Keeps calling to me, calling to me. Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares WRITTEN BY THE SEA, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet are white dreams I' the dusk, yet sweeter far Last Line: White joy, white peace, white balm that healeth me! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Sea; Soul; Nightmares; Ocean WRITTEN IN MY DREAM BY W. C. WILLIAMS, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As is/you're hearing Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares WYNKEN, BLYNKEN AND NOD, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wynken, blynken, and nod one night Last Line: And nod. Variant Title(s): A Dutch Lullaby;wynken, Blynken, And Nod Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Mothers; Sleep; Childhood; Nightmares YOUNG FATE, by PAUL VALERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Harmonious me, disparate from a dream Last Line: And burns in the somber goal of my yawning marble. Subject(s): Brides; Dreams; Fate; Nightmares; Destiny YOUNG WIFE, WAKING, by FLOYD DELL Poem Text First Line: Shadow-boy, shadow lover Last Line: Come not again! Subject(s): Desire; Dreams; Nightmares YOUNGSTER AND OLDSTER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is she not fair? Last Line: Is one right, or the other -- or are both? Subject(s): Dreams; Fear; Sleep; Soul; Stars; Nightmares YOUR MUSIC, by PAULINE OGDEN Poem Text First Line: Your slender fingers drift across the keys Last Line: Feeling that you are playing just for me. Subject(s): Dreams; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Nightmares ZARA (3) (SEE MATURIN'S 'WOMEN'), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed that loving me he would love on Last Line: Oh love that gnaws and gnaws and cannot kill. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Life; Love; Memory; Dead, The; Nightmares |
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