Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, UNFULFILMENT, by BURGES JOHNSON


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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


I see an upland pasture, clover-blown,
Where grave-eyed cattle graze the meadow-side;
And in the wavy blot of shade a lonely tree has thrown,
A little boy lies dreaming, open-eyed.
And something in the fair-gowned buckwheat fields,
And in the hill lined out against the sky,
And in the kindly spreading tree a subtle bondage wields;
I look—and lo! the little boy is I.

Afar, blue peaks that one time edged the world—
White clouds—a boyhood's realm of Maybe-so;
And from the deeps of memory a tapestry's unfurled
Of small boy visions, woven long ago.
And years and deeds went always hand in hand.
In those fair pictures. Yet to-day there seems
A small voice crying sorrowf'ly from sky and clover-land
That I am not the figure of the dreams.





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