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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET: DREAM-LOVE, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poet's Biography First Line: I always seem to love you in my dreams Last Line: Or better, wake to find I love by day. Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Love | |||
I ALWAYS seem to love you in my dreams Of force, and right, and nature, full and free; Sleep after sleep, the very self of me Lost in the nearest of your spirit seems. Yet, as the grey of real daylight streams Across the bright deep of my passion's sea, There crawls a chill, a cloud up lingeringly To sap the glow from night's divinest gleams. Which take for truth? Why are you ever twain? Awake, my intellect's serenest friend; Asleep, my being's sovereign, meaning, end, -- My heart's desire, delight, possession, pain? Ah! might I, dreaming, drive my love away; Or better, wake to find I love by day. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE INVENTION OF LOVE by MATTHEA HARVEY TWO VIEWS OF BUSON by ROBERT HASS A LOVE FOR FOUR VOICES: HOMAGE TO FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN by ANTHONY HECHT AN OFFERING FOR PATRICIA by ANTHONY HECHT LATE AFTERNOON: THE ONSLAUGHT OF LOVE by ANTHONY HECHT A SWEETENING ALL AROUND ME AS IT FALLS by JANE HIRSHFIELD EGOISME A DEUX' by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON |
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