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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
JOHN O' DREAMS, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poet's Biography
First Line: What a world that was you planned us
Last Line: John o' dreams.
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Mortality
First Line: What a world that was you planned us
Last Line: John o' dreams.
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Mortality
What a world that was you planned us --
Made of Summer and the sea,
Where the very wind that fanned us
Drifted down from Arcady.
There where never Fate might sunder
Rose your castle's shining beams.
Are you there to-day I wonder,
John O' Dreams?
That was but a trick Life played you
When this planet knew your birth,
When she trapped your soul and made you
One of us on dreary earth.
Since for you what fancies crossed it,
Lures of alien stars and streams,
Have you found the path or lost it,
John O' Dreams?
Just a little day in May-time
Once I took the road with you;
Just a boy and girl in play-time
With a vision to pursue.
I but glimpsed the glow around it
Ere I turned, and yet it seems
Sometimes that you surely found it,
John O' Dreams.
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