Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ONLY A DREAM, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poet's Biography Last Line: May wound her heart deeper than any! Subject(s): Dreams | ||||||||
Only a Dream! It floated thro' The sky of a lonely sleep As floats a gleam Athwart the Blue Of a golden clouded Deep. Only a Dream! I calmly slept. Meseems I called a name; I woke; and, waking, I think I wept And called -- and called the same. Only a Dream! Graves have no ears; They give not back the dead; They will not listen to the saddest tears That ever may be shed. Only a Dream! Graves keep their own; They have no hearts to hear; But the loved will come From their Heaven-Home To smile on the sleeper's tear. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND EYES: A DREAM by LYN HEJINIAN 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 SENTINEL SONGS: 1 by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN |
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