Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, NEST OF DREAMS, by HELEN FIELD WATSON


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NEST OF DREAMS, by                    
First Line: Sometimes one has a dream within a dream
Last Line: And what, reality.
Subject(s): Dreams; Reality; Nightmares


Sometimes one has a dream within a dream,
This makes the outer one seem
Real. And always, what we do in sleep
Is life, -- until we wake.
Then reason enters in
To tell us our mistake.

I wonder if this state we know so well
As life is but another dream,
From which we wake at death
To learn what reason is
And what, reality.





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