Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A DREAM-POEM, by ANTOINETTE DE COURSEY PATTERSON First Line: Lost in a dream one night Last Line: Lyrical word! Subject(s): Language; Poetry & Poets; Words; Vocabulary | ||||||||
Lost in a dream one night, Verses I wrote, Which on my sleeping ear Pleasingly smote! Like balls a juggler plays -- Shadow and gleam -- One by one shining words Rose in my dream: Choc-o-pic, Columbine, Harlequinade, Caramel, Brandywine, Silver brocade. Cinnamon, cellar-door, Marionette, Nicotine, Kohinoor, Opals, aigrette; Eskimo, tambourine, Sable and vair, Archangel, tricotine, Vega, Voltaire; Ending with this one, the Sweetest yet heard, Oleomargine -- Lyrical word! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HOWYOUBEENS' by TERRANCE HAYES MY LIFE: REASON LOOKS FOR TWO, THEN ARRANGES IT FROM THERE by LYN HEJINIAN THE FATALIST: THE BEST WORDS by LYN HEJINIAN WRITING IS AN AID TO MEMORY: 17 by LYN HEJINIAN CANADA IN ENGLISH by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA THERE IS NO WORD by TONY HOAGLAND CONSIDERED SPEECH by JOHN HOLLANDER AND MOST OF ALL, I WANNA THANK ?Ǫ by JOHN HOLLANDER FOLK SONG - FROM THE DANISH by ANTOINETTE DE COURSEY PATTERSON IN A MOONLIT GARDEN by ANTOINETTE DE COURSEY PATTERSON LUCRETIA BORGIA'S LAST LETTER by ANTOINETTE DE COURSEY PATTERSON |
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