Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A DREAM, by FREDERICK E. PIETZUCH


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A DREAM, by                    
First Line: What is this dream, this changing form
Last Line: And angry billows tear the twain apart.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


What is this dream, this changing form
Appearing now as darkness, now as light,
That holds within its great fantastic arm
The fate of such a tranquil summer night?

Its rolling color billows now effect
A bacchanal of wild chaotic glee,
And on a pleasant memory project
A panorama of tumultuous sea.

Behold! a light gleams through the firmament --
A gentle white with tints of purest gold;
So calmly and so peacefully content
It seems within that furious enfold.

Oh, God! that I could grasp that sweetest light
And hold it ever more against my heart!
Alas! I reach for it with all my might,
And angry billows tear the twain apart.





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