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THE DREAM by THOMAS STANLEY

Poet Analysis

First Line: THAT I MIGHT EVER DREAM THUS! THAT SOME POWER
Last Line: OR IF THOU WILT AWAY, LEAVE HER BEHIND.
Subject(s): DREAMS; NIGHTMARES;

THAT I might ever dream thus! that some power
To my eternal sleep would join this hour!
So, willingly deceiv'd, I might possess
In seeming joys a real happiness.
Haste not away: oh do not dissipate
A pleasure thou so lately didst create!
Stay, welcome Sleep; be ever here confin'd;
Or if thou wilt away, leave her behind.



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