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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BY TWILIGHT, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: If we dream that desire of the distance above us
Last Line: If we dream.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Evening; Dead, The; Nightmares; Sunset; Twilight
First Line: If we dream that desire of the distance above us
Last Line: If we dream.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Evening; Dead, The; Nightmares; Sunset; Twilight
IF we dream that desire of the distance above us
Should be fettered by fear of the shadows that seem,
If we wake, to be nought, but to hate or to love us
If we dream.
Night sinks on the soul, and the stars as they gleam
Speak menace or mourning, with tongues to reprove us
That we deemed of them better than terror may deem.
But if hope may not lure us, if fear may not move us,
Thought lightens the darkness wherein the supreme
Pure presence of death shall assure us, and prove us
If we dream.
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