Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BELLS JANGLED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lie low-coiled in a nest of dreams Last Line: Where I neither sleep nor wake. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Bells; Dreams; Sleep; Soul; Nightmares | ||||||||
I LIE low-coiled in a nest of dreams; The lamp gleams dim i' the odorous gloom, And the stars at the casement leak long gleams Of misty light through the haunted room Where I lie low-coiled in dreams. The night winds ooze o'er my dusk-drowned face In a dewy flood that ebbs and flows, Washing a surf of dim white lace Under my throat and the dark red rose In the shade of my dusk-drowned face. There's a silken strand of some strange sound Slipping out of a skein of song: Eerily as a call unwound From a fairy bugle, it slides along In a silken strand of sound. There's the tinkling drip of a faint guitar; There's a gurgling flute, and a blaring horn Blowing bubbles of tune afar O'er the misty heights of the hills of morn, To the drip of a faint guitar. And I dream that I neither sleep nor wake -- Careless am I if I wake or sleep, For my soul floats out on the waves that break In crests of song on the shoreless deep Where I neither sleep nor wake. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...VARIATIONS: 14 by CONRAD AIKEN VARIATIONS: 18 by CONRAD AIKEN LIVE IT THROUGH by DAVID IGNATOW A DREAM OF GAMES by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN THE DREAM OF WAKING by RANDALL JARRELL APOLOGY FOR BAD DREAMS by ROBINSON JEFFERS GIVE YOUR WISH LIGHT by ROBINSON JEFFERS A BOY'S MOTHER by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY |
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