Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, DREAM, by MIKHAIL YUREVICH LERMONTOV


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First Line: By hot noon, in a vale of dargestan
Last Line: In cold streams out of it, and ebbed away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lermontov, Mikhail Yuryevich
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


BY hot noon, in a vale of Dargestan,
Lifeless, a bullet in my breast, I lay;
Smoke rose from a deep wound, and my blood ran
Out of me, drop by drop, and ebbed away.

I lay upon the burning sand alone.
Sheer precipices crowded all around.
Their yellow tops were scorching in the sun,
And I scorched too, in death's sleep, on the ground.

I dreamed a dream, and saw the glittering hours
Of evening gaiety in my own place;
And there young women, garlanded with flowers,
Held talk of me in words of happy grace.

But in that happy talk not joining, one
Sat far apart, and sunk in thought she seemed;
And oh! -- the cause is known to God alone --
This was the sad dream that her young soul dreamed.

She dreamed she saw a vale of Dargestan....
There on the slope a well-known body lay;
Smoke rose from a black wound, and the blood ran
In cold streams out of it, and ebbed away.





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