Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A DREAM-POEM, by ANTOINETTE DE COURSEY PATTERSON



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A DREAM-POEM, by                    
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!





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