Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MENDED DREAMS, by ADALINE H. TATMAN


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MENDED DREAMS, by                    
First Line: I have toiled and toiled at my clumsy loom
Last Line: Than are new ones lusterless, soulless, dead.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


I have toiled and toiled at my clumsy loom,
A-striving to weave a new dream today;
But the thing I have wrought is lifeless and dull,
And I have grown weary of treadle and slay.

My warp and my woof are fully as fine,
As those that I used in the long ago;
But I have lost the lovely scarlet thread
That gave my visions their glory and glow.

So I shall mend the old dreams as best I can,
(Oh, the dear, old dreams with their scarlet thread!)
For better are the old dreams mended well,
Than are new ones lusterless, soulless, dead.





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