Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A DREAM, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS 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 | ||||||||
AND at night we'd find a town, Flat-roofed, by a star-strewn sea, Where the pirate crew came down To a long-forgotten quay, And we'd meet them in the gloaming, Tarry pigtails, back from roaming, With a pot of pirate ginger for the likes of her and me! She was small and rather pale, Grey-eyed, grey as smoke that weaves, And we'd watch them stowing sail, Forty most attractive thieves; Propped against the porphyry column, She was seven, sweet and solemn, And she'd hair blue-black as swallows when they flit beneath the eaves. On the moonlit sands and bare, Clamorous, jewelled in the dusk, There would be an Eastern Fari, We could smell the mules and musk, We could see the cressets flaring, And we'd run to buy a fairing Where a black man blew a fanfare on a carven ivory tusk. And we'd stop before the stall Of a grave green-turbaned khan, Gem or flowerhe kept them all Persian cat or yataghan; And I'd pay a golden guinea And she'd fill her holland pinny With white kittens and red roses and blue stones from Turkestan! London streets have flowers anew, London shops with gems are set; When you've none to give them to, What is pearl or violet? Vain things both and emptinesses, So they wait a dream-Princess's Coming, if she's sweet and solemn with grey eyes and hair of jet! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IN ABEYANCE by DENISE LEVERTOV IN A VACANT HOUSE by PHILIP LEVINE SUNDAY ALONE IN A FIFTH FLOOR APARTMENT, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS by WILLIAM MATTHEWS SILENCE LIKE COOL SAND by PAT MORA THE HONEY BEAR by EILEEN MYLES A BLACK-LETTER STORY-BOOK by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS |
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