Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE BEAUTY OF GOOD DREAMS, by OWEN REDINGTON WASHBURN


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THE BEAUTY OF GOOD DREAMS, by                    
First Line: How rich the world in beauty of good dreams!
Last Line: Dream thou great dreams and make more fair the earth.
Variant Title(s): Good Dreams
Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Soul; Nightmares


How rich the world in beauty of good dreams!
Reveries in steel, carved marble, mighty wings,
Sky-seeking domes, each slender tower which flings
Its phantom bridge across ten thousand streams,
Girdled with morning or the night's soft beams,
Bear witness to the source when beauty springs
And how desire is breathed in visionings,
Till with the soul the earth-born metal sings
And rocks with man rejoice. Men of old time
Bowed under burdens, scorning art for toil:
Our toilers set the whirling wheels to rhyme,
Model the lightning, harmonize the soil.
Since dreams, if fair, in beauty have their birth,
Dream thou great dreams and make more fair the earth.





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