Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TRUE LIGHT, by JOHN FREEMAN


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First Line: O hast thou nothing but thy dreams
Last Line: In that true light of living dreams.
Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Nightmares


O HAST thou nothing but thy dreams,
Earth's richness hast thou heaped with heaven:
Or hast thou nothing but thy thought
The keys of time to thee are given:
Keys of eternity are thine
By deed inalienable and divine.

Thy life, a dream within a dream,
Thy soul, a thought born of a thought.
Imperishable and royal are
In splendid mortal semblance wrought.
If kings have beggars been esteemed,
Beggars were kings if they but dreamed.

Let but thy thought like morning touch
The grinning dark tower of the world,
Its grimness into music dies,
The dark tower into dust is hurled.
The secret and the silent king
Rifts like smoke that night-hued thing.

Dreams for night and thought for day:
But in the lapse of aching thought
Blue feathery-footed dreams alight,
Flying from sleepy caves unsought.
Each common thing a false thing seems
In that true light of living dreams.





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