Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WITHIN A DREAMER'S HAND, by VIRGINIA SCOTT


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WITHIN A DREAMER'S HAND, by                    
First Line: The dreamer wandering down a lonely beach
Last Line: Or treads the land that hardy viking found!
Alternate Author Name(s): O'neill, Virginia Scott
Subject(s): Dreams; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Nightmares


The dreamer wandering down a lonely beach
Can scoop the restless world within his hand,
Or scatter continents wide through trickling sand
That falls no farther than his footsteps reach.
For nibbling wave-marauders sacked from each
Defenseless curve of sea-adjacent land
The microcosmic worlds to form this strand,
And countless messengers filled this gaping breach.
Perhaps he walks on China's ancient coast --
Or jagged rocks where pinioned mariners screamed --
The shore of Java -- India's sacred ground --
Or peaks Lemuria's mountaineers could boast.
Perhaps he stirs the dust where Sappho dreamed
Or treads the land that hardy Viking found!





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