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First Line: The number two is urge distilled, the flu-
Last Line: Nightly we mix and meet our death by water
Subject(s): Dreams; Night


3, by ESTHER TELLERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Rammed clay area. %we traveled.
Last Line: I will weave you %in stone %in new% sites.
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Weariness


A BACCHANALIAN SONG, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sing! - who sings
Last Line: And the best of all good company.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller
Subject(s): Dreams; Drinks & Drinking; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Wine


A BALLAD OF BODING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are sleeping dreams and waking dreams
Last Line: Yet kept high festival above sun and moon and star.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Life Choices; Monsters; Dreams; Sailing & Sailors


A BALLAD OF DREAMLAND, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I hid my heart in a nest of roses
Last Line: Only the song of a secret bird.
Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Roses; Sleep; Nightmares


A BALLAD OF LIFE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I found in dreams a place of wind and flowers
Last Line: Ballad, and on thy mouth.
Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Life; Nightmares


A BIRTH-SONG, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of the dark sweet sleep
Last Line: Guard and be gracious to the fair-named flower.
Subject(s): Birth; Dreams; Sleep; Child Birth; Midwifery; Nightmares


A BOOK OF DREAMS, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I lay and dreamed. The master came
Last Line: And all but me asleep!
Subject(s): Birds; Children; Churches; Crucifixion; Death; Desolation; Despair; Dreams; Fathers; Flowers; God; Hope; Lilies; Memory; Prodigal Son; Sleep; Swans; Youth; Childhood; Cathedrals; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The; Nightmares; Optimism


A BOOK SAID DREAM AND I DO, by BARBARA RAS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There were feathers and the light that passed through feathers
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


A BURDEN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They lie at rest asleep and dead
Last Line: Hallelujah, amen.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Variant Title(s): My Old Friends
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Friendship; Life; Love; Dead, The; Nightmares


A CASTLE IN THE AIR, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I built myself a castle
Last Line: Only -- I looked beyond.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Castles; Dreams; Grief; Hope; Youth; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism


A CHILD TASTES THE LOVELINESS OF LIFE AND FASHIONS A NEW DREAM, by GRACE STONE COATES    Poem Text                    
First Line: When I am grown I shall eat citron
Last Line: Appraising a pale chartreuse!)
Subject(s): Dreams; Growth; Life; Nightmares


A COURT-MINSTREL, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I dreamed I was a virginal
Last Line: Tis time I was a-musicking!
Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri
Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Love; Minstrels; Nightmares


A CUP OF TEA, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have sipped, with drooping lashes
Last Line: Fragrant laurel round its rim.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dreams; Food & Eating; Mythology; Tea; Vision; Nightmares


A DAY DREAM, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If fancy do not all deceive
Last Line: Or wake me not at all!
Subject(s): Dreams; Love


A DAY DREAM, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My eyes make pictures, when they are shut
Last Line: Murmur it to yourselves, ye two beloved women!
Variant Title(s): Eye
Subject(s): Dreams; Language; Nightmares; Words; Vocabulary


A DAY-DREAM, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A day-dream by the dark-blue deep
Last Line: The waves run murmuring up the beach.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


A DAY-DREAMER, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Since coming from the land of dreams is lonely
Last Line: Wherein who loveth dreams shall have his fill.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Day; Dreams; Nightmares


A DEAD CALM AND MIST (TOWARDS EVENING), by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The slow heave of the sleeping sea
Last Line: Save just a dream of amethyst.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Dreams; Evening; Sea; Wind; Nightmares; Sunset; Twilight; Ocean


A DEAL IN REAL ESTATE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Barendt cuyler, indian trader
Last Line: "brother -- let us dream no more!"
Subject(s): Dreams; Native Americans; New York City - Dutch Period; Smoking; Nightmares; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes


A DREAM, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I heard the dogs howl in the moonlight night
Last Line: I strive to recall it if I may.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


A DREAM, by MATTHEW ARNOLD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Was it a dream? We sailed, I thought we sailed
Last Line: Bristled with cities, us the sea receiv'd.
Subject(s): Dreams; Travel; Nightmares; Journeys; Trips


A DREAM, by PHILIP AYRES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One night, with sleep my senses being opprest
Last Line: I'll strive to chase the fancy from my mind.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


A DREAM, by BERNARD BARTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou art not one of the living now
Last Line: And love, in some such dream as this!
Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


A DREAM, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In dreams I met my love, he stood alone
Last Line: Shivering in ecstasy, fell on his breast.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


A DREAM, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Unriddle this. Last night my dream
Last Line: Batters to win the desperate sky.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


A DREAM, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamed / a dream of you
Last Line: "always a dream."
Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Lips; Love; Nightmares


A DREAM, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I had come in front of a building and knew
Last Line: A batch of those french poets.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2)
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


A DREAM, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I had a dream - a strange, wild dream
Last Line: "shall open in the morning beam."
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


A DREAM, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Guid-mornin' to our majesty
Last Line: Fu' clean that day.
Subject(s): Dreams; Poetry & Poets; Nightmares


A DREAM, by THOMAS CAMPBELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Well may sleep present us fictions
Last Line: "guardian spirit, steer me on!"
Subject(s): Dreams; Immortality; Nightmares


A DREAM, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamed I had a plot of ground / once when I chanced asleep to drop
Last Line: Has bloomed the other side, I said.
Subject(s): Dreams; Angels


A DREAM, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: And at night we'd find a town
Last Line: Coming, if she's sweet and solemn with grey eyes and hair of jet!
Subject(s): Dreams; Solitude; Nightmares; Loneliness


A DREAM, by IRENE T. DAGUE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I fain would build a little house
Last Line: And find a welcome there.
Subject(s): Dreams; Home; Nightmares


A DREAM, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Methought, (unwitting how the place I gained)
Last Line: It plunged extinguished in the chaotic gulf!
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


A DREAM, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: I met her in the leafy woods
Last Line: I woke, and lay alone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Dreams; Passion; Nightmares


A DREAM, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO    Poem Text                    
First Line: I dreamed old winter donned his trailing mantle
Last Line: Tis thus I dreamed it in an idle hour.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


A DREAM, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas night - the globe was folded up
Last Line: "behold the fighting smith!"
Subject(s): Dreams; Ireland; Nightmares; Irish


A DREAM, by THOMAS MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I thought this heart consuming lay
Last Line: And mingled into one!
Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


A DREAM, by EDWARD MOXON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Methought my love was dead. Oh, 'twas a night
Last Line: To find my sorrow but a lover's dream.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


A DREAM, by KILLANE O'BURK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Amid night's life - suspending sleep
Last Line: And again to loneliness I yield.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


A DREAM, by FREDERICK E. PIETZUCH    Poem Text                    
First Line: What is this dream, this changing form
Last Line: And angry billows tear the twain apart.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


A DREAM, by EDGAR ALLAN POE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In visions of the dark night
Last Line: In truth's day-star? [1927-1845]
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


A DREAM, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All yesterday I was spinning
Last Line: Remained of my dream to-day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


A DREAM, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh for my love, my only love
Last Line: Most near altho' most far away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Dreams; Faith; Love; Tears; Nightmares; Belief; Creed


A DREAM, by MARY ENOLA RUDOLPH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Last night I dreamed of mystic isles
Last Line: Of a loneliness for something lost.
Subject(s): Dreams; Ships - Abandoning Of; Solitude; Nightmares; Loneliness


A DREAM, by CARROLL RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I was drifting away last night, in a dream
Last Line: By the load that I felt on my heart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


A DREAM, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some perfect day I shall not need
Last Line: Only that I have fallen asleep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares


A DREAM, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Methought I was a billow in the crowd
Last Line: Gleamed like a pile of crags.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


A DREAM, by ROY NANCE SMETHERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: We two went, hand in hand, dear love
Last Line: And only me for you.
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Seasons; Nightmares


A DREAM, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamed a morning dream - a torrent brought
Last Line: I looked again, the torrent-bed was dry.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


A DREAM, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That was a curious dream; I thought the three
Last Line: That I awoke and joined too in their mirth.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Planets; Sea; Sun; Nightmares; World; Ocean


A DREAM, by CHARLES WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No more in any house can I be at peace
Last Line: Daily; and here shall it be in the end,—or here?'
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares


A DREAM, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twas such a big pie that I knew
Last Line: Or else I'd have been eaten, too!
Subject(s): Dreams; September; Nightmares


A DREAM (1), by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamed I was a spider
Last Line: And devoured them one by one.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dreams; Insects; Spiders; Nightmares; Bugs


A DREAM AND A SONG, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A dream comes in and a song goes forth
Last Line: "where love came home in a dream to me."
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


A DREAM AND A SONG, by ARTHUR EUGENE SMITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: The witty and gay had departed
Last Line: Their pinions and left us -- sin's prey.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


A DREAM AT ARDEA (MAREMMA), by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where ardea, the cliff-girt
Last Line: The star of eve.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Love; Mythology - Classical; Rome, Italy; Sea; Venus (goddess); Nightmares; World; Ocean


A DREAM DANCE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Maeve held a ball on the dun
Last Line: My hand in that beautiful hand.
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Dreams; Nightmares


A DREAM GARDEN, by ELLA YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Will you come one day to see me
Last Line: With a rainbow-gleam.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


A DREAM OF AUTUMN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mellow hazes, lowly trailing
Last Line: Down the silence solemnly.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Autumn; Dreams; Grief; Harvest; Seasons; Fall; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness


A DREAM OF BRIC-A-BRAC, by JOHN MILTON HAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamed I was in fair niphon
Last Line: "whenever a man makes a fool of himself."
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


A DREAM OF BURIAL, by JAMES WRIGHT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nothing was left of me
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A.
Subject(s): Dreams; Self-pity; Nightmares


A DREAM OF DEATH, by LUCY WHITE JENNISON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I died; they wrapped me in a shroud
Last Line: Arise, and love me, helena!
Alternate Author Name(s): Innsley, Owen
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Dead, The; Nightmares


A DREAM OF FIFTY, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Among all the losses, this was immense
Last Line: Wind pressing leaves against a grid of fence.
Subject(s): Aging; Birthdays; Dreams; Future; Life; Loss; Nightmares


A DREAM OF FOXES, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the dream of foxes
Last Line: Safe through the generous fields
Subject(s): Dreams; Foxes; Nightmares


A DREAM OF GAMES, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: His fingers hesitate over
Last Line: The loser connected with his law
Subject(s): Scrabble (game); Card Games; Dreams; Playing Cards; Nightmares


A DREAM OF INSPIRATION, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To loll back, in a misty hammock, swung
Last Line: Save fancy's hinted chime of unknown seas.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Creative Ability; Dreams; Hammocks; Wind; Inspiration; Creativity; Nightmares


A DREAM OF LIFE, by HUMBERT WOLFE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our time-career is yon dark cloud
Last Line: God grant! Shall mock their glance.
Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Life; Tears; Time; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness


A DREAM OF LONG AGO, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lying listless in the mosses
Last Line: Through the dreams of long ago.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Bells; Dreams; Past; Nightmares


A DREAM OF LOVE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Without the world was beautiful
Last Line: And clinging lips confess.
Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Nightmares


A DREAM OF MOUNTAINEERING, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: At night, in my dream, I stoutly climbed a mountain
Last Line: Between the two, I get as much as I lose.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Dreams; Mountain Climbing; Sleep; Nightmares


A DREAM OF PEACE, by LILY PEARL CHAMBERLIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I dreamed that peace had come, - that nevermore
Last Line: The age of peace on earth, good will to men.
Subject(s): Dreams; Peace; World War I; Nightmares; First World War


A DREAM OF PERFECTION, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I found it in a vision fair
Last Line: A perfect soul, and form, and face.
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Perfection; Soul; Time; Nightmares


A DREAM OF THE MELBOURNE CUP, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bring me a quart of colonial beer
Last Line: And I woke with 'the indigestion'.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Cups; Dreams; Hearts; Melbourne, Australia; Nightmares


A DREAM OF WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You were dead, but how sleek and darkly calm you were!
Last Line: Lying, saying I cared nothing about form....
Subject(s): Creative Ability; Dreams; Irony; Play; Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963); Inspiration; Creativity; Nightmares


A DREAM OR NO, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why go to saint-juliot? What's juliot to me?
Last Line: Or beeny, or bos with its flounce flinging mist?
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


A DREAM PANG, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I had withdrawn in forest, and my song
Last Line: For the wood wakes, and you are here for proof.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


A DREAM UNFINISHED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Only a dream unfinished; only a form at rest
Last Line: With weary hands clasped lightly over a peaceful breast.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dreams; Heaven; Summer; Nightmares; Paradise


A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM, by EDGAR ALLAN POE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Take this kiss upon the brow!
Last Line: But a dream within a dream?
Variant Title(s): To -
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The green was all with shadows blent
Last Line: And plans the richer world to be.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew
Subject(s): Dreams


A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM, OR IMITATION, by EDGAR ALLAN POE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A dark unfathom'd tide
Last Line: With a thought I then did cherish.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


A FANTASY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A fantasy that came to me
Last Line: Her mystic fingers knew so well.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Flowers; Trees; Vision; Nightmares


A FAREWELL, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Farewell, o dream of mine!
Last Line: Farewell forever!
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Dreams; Farewell; Future; Nightmares; Parting


A FRAGMENT, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS    Poem Text                    
First Line: And then it seem'd I was a bird
Last Line: Twas then I knew it was a dream!
Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri
Subject(s): Birds; Dreams; Singing & Singers; Streets; Nightmares; Avenues


A HANGING SCREEN, by MICHAEL ANANIA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In warm sunlight jade
Last Line: The line out of reach
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Dreams; Nightmares


A HOPELESS CASE (NYDIA), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All night I dream of that which cannot be
Last Line: Shut in from cold and wind and storm of rain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Sleep; Nightmares


A KIDDIE'S DREAM, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A kiddie dreamed that a billy goat
Last Line: Can be wrecked the same as pickle boats.
Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Night; Silence; Childhood; Nightmares; Bedtime


A LETTER, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear, I tried to write you such a letter
Last Line: Through the twilight shadows of my heart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Dreams; Letters; Love; Tears; Nightmares


A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: High on his watershelf
Last Line: He is reading a chapter on deserts.
Subject(s): Dreams; Fish & Fishing; Knowledge; Nightmares


A LOST DREAM, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, I have changed, I do not know
Last Line: How just a dream could hold me so.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


A METAPHYSICIAN DREAMS, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I had died and that small analyst
Last Line: And found himself again where he began.
Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Dreams; Soul; Worms; Dead, The; Nightmares


A MID-DAY DREAMER, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I love to sit alone, and dream
Last Line: Adown the stream.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


A NEOCLASSICIST, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I know your moral sources, prig
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Man-woman Relationships; Old Age; Dead, The; Nightmares; Male-female Relations


A NIGHT ON EARTH, by BILLY COLLINS            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I got home late and drank most
Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Night; Nightmares; Bedtime


A NIGHTMARE, by ELIZA OGILVY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I dreamed that I was sick and sore at heart
Last Line: And still the pulse beat stronger for the pain.
Subject(s): Dreams; Fate; Pain; Youth; Nightmares; Destiny; Suffering; Misery


A PICTURE, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes, in sleeping dreams of night
Last Line: And from my heart the woe.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Love; Portraits; Nightmares


A PLACE I KNOW, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a place I know
Last Line: It is a place of dreams.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


A PLAIN MAN'S DREAM, by FREDERICK KEPPEL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Were I transported to some distant star
Last Line: Love they would learn full soon without my teaching!
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


A PURE HYPOTHESIS, by MAY EMMA GOLDWORTH KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A lover, in four-dimensioned space, describes a dream
Last Line: In three-dimensioned space!
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


A QUESTION, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, who can tell which guide were best
Last Line: In sunshine born of thought and love.
Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Love; Thought; Vision; Nightmares; Thinking


A RECORD; A FRAGMENT, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I hear the dark tempestuous sea
Last Line: Through birth and death, doth upward range.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Dreams; Kisses; Sea; Soul; Tears; Nightmares; Ocean


A REVERIE, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One thing I know not, - what, o little maiden
Last Line: Leant on my heart and mixt its dream with me!
Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais
Subject(s): Dreams; Love - Loss Of; Nightmares


A REVERIE (1), by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Did I dream of a song? Or sing in a dream?
Last Line: From out the keeping of his heart.
Subject(s): Dreams


A RING OF CHANGES, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shells, husks, the wandering
Subject(s): Casals, Pablo (1876-1973); Dreams; Love; Nature; Music & Musicians; Relationships; Nightmares


A SEASON IN HELL: THE ALCHEMY OF WORDS, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Listen. The tale of one of my follies
Last Line: That is over. Now I know how to greet beauty.
Subject(s): Dreams; Language; Nightmares; Words; Vocabulary


A SHIPWRECKED PERSON, by JAMES TATE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I woke from my afternoon nap, I wanted
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


A SONG FOR THE WEARY, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Seems it so sad and strange
Last Line: Thee to his breast!
Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Life; Moon; Singing & Singers; Nightmares


A SONG OF A GARDEN, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What a thing a garden is
Last Line: To bid grow, to increase!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Animals; Bees; Birds; Dreams; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Herbs; Insects; Medicine; Quiet Life; Beekeeping; Nightmares; Bugs; Drugs, Prescription


A SONG OF DREAMS, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One came to me in the night
Last Line: On her starry towers.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Colors; Dreams; Moon; Travel; Nightmares; Journeys; Trips


A SONG OF LOVE AND YOUR DREAMS, by ARTHUR W. UPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If life be the street
Last Line: The false ones true!
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Nightmares


A STUDENT, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Over an ancient scroll I bent
Last Line: The fluttering of an angel's wings!
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Past; Schools; Time; Nightmares; Students


A SUMMER'S DREAM, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What that dread summer was my heart knows well
Last Line: And no gods pity those who steal their treasure.
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


A SWIMMER'S DREAM, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dawn is dim on the dark soft water
Last Line: And here to south of them swells the sea.
Subject(s): Autumn; Dawn; Dreams; Seasons; Swimming & Swimmers; Water; Fall; Sunrise; Nightmares; Swimmers


A TASTE FOR FALLING, by JUDY JORDAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Maybe it was the cold pulling through darkness stippled on darkness
Last Line: A taste for falling, from which I never wake
Subject(s): Disappointment; Dreams; Nightmares


A TRAIN WHISTLE, by ROSS LAWRENCE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I like to hear a train whistle
Last Line: To dream the years away.
Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Nightmares


A TRYST WITH DEATH, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am footsore and very weary
Last Line: And he only can give me rest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Night; Time; Travel; Dead, The; Nightmares; Bedtime; Journeys; Trips


A VISION, by RUTH E. HINESLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: I slept and a vision
Last Line: Understanding!
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


A VISION, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamt: in my forlorn disordered chamber
Last Line: Had stamped the scar of everlasting pain.
Subject(s): Dreams


A VOICE FROM THE FARM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is my dream to have you here with me
Last Line: Our way toward home across the dewy fields.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dreams; Farm Life; Voices; Nightmares; Agriculture; Farmers


A WALTZ THOUGHT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When a man's prime passion, for years on years
Last Line: Subtly shaping his witching waltz!
Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Graves; Life; Love; Music & Musicians; Nature; Straw; Nightmares; World; Tombs; Tombstones


A WEEK AFTER YOUR DEATH, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamt last night you
Last Line: Your dream he did
Subject(s): Death; Dreams


A WEIGHTY MATTER, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamt the whole thing out as I was sleeping
Last Line: Might not my dream come true?
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


A WISH, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: May it be mine, ye gods, to tread
Last Line: To slumber undisturbed of dreams.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nature; Peace; Wishes; Nightmares


A WORD WITH THE WIND, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lord of days and nights that hear thy word of wintry warming
Last Line: Far as foam that laughs and leaps along the sea.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nature; Night; Sea; Wind; Nightmares; Bedtime; Ocean


A WORLD WITHOUT WATER, by MARY ANN BROWNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I had a dream in the dead of night
Last Line: In mercy I awoke.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gray, James, Mrs.; Gray, Mary Anne Browne
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


A WORTH WHILE THEME, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: As I sat and pondered, dreaming, vainly searching, vainly scheming
Last Line: Than are found in loving girls and boys.
Subject(s): Dreams; Fairies; Waiting; Nightmares; Elves


AARON JACOBSON, by KATE NORTHROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: Again he returns in a dream--,
Last Line: Through the underbrush, threads deep %into the landscape.
Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Virginia (state)


ABANDONMENT, by WESLEY MCNAIR    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Climbing on top of him and breathing
Last Line: But the face and breathes oh %breathes into the mouth which does not breathe back
Subject(s): Death - Children; Dreams


ABEL MARTIN'S LAST LAMENTATIONS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Today with the spring
Last Line: A drop of joy, a sea of oblivion
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Absence; Dreams


ABOUT INFINITY; AFTER H.H., THE 17TH KARMAPA, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There are stonebreakers in straw hats
Last Line: Running in a running stream.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Fathers; Flowers; Dead, The; Nightmares


ABOUT MAY, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One night nurse sleep held out her hand
Last Line: Better another night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Dreams; Girls; Sleep; Nightmares


ABSENCES, by EUGENE GRINDEL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The dull delight and petty mystery
Last Line: And the shadows wait for me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eluard, Paul
Subject(s): Absence; Dreams; Shadows; Separation; Isolation; Nightmares


ABSINTHE, by DAVID WILSHIRE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Milky luridly green
Last Line: Peace ... Rest ... Dreams unfold.
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Nightmares


AD ASTRA: 62, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: O woman, with what soul-alluring charms
Last Line: Which mocks him with the magic of its gleam!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


ADMIRAL OF THE PARKING LOT, by DEBORA GREGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: All alike we sail to a shore of lies
Last Line: Tomorrow once again we sail the ocean sea
Subject(s): Dreams; Florida; Sun


ADRIFT, by CHARLES GEORGE HANZLICEK    Poem Source                    
First Line: We're all have such a good time
Last Line: Letting go, %adrift
Subject(s): Audiences; Dreams


ADVICE OF THE DREAM, by KATE NORTHROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: The dream that escaped the dream
Last Line: Able to be everywhere in the world.
Subject(s): Advice; Dreams; Escapes; Freedom


AFRICAN DREAM, by BOB KAUFMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In black core of night, it explodes
Last Line: Green screams enfold my night
Subject(s): Africa; Dreams; Nightmares


AFTER 'LES FLEURS' (PAUL ELUARD), by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am 20 years old and holding on
Last Line: When I close my eyes I kill you.
Subject(s): Dreams; Love - Beginnings; Youth; Nightmares


AFTER 1918, by HARRISON HIRES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Into the gray mist I went dreaming
Last Line: The world from passion and madness spent.
Subject(s): Dreams; Sea; Sky; Thought; Nightmares; Ocean; Thinking


AFTER A LONG ILLNESS, by NICHOLAS CHRISTOPHER    Poem Source                    
First Line: A man lighter than air enters
Last Line: Trailing vapors, his arms folded %across his chest like wings
Subject(s): Dreams


AFTER DEATH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah! This delights me more than
Last Line: How I do pity them that pity me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Graves; Life; Dead, The; Nightmares; Tombs; Tombstones


AFTER MY STEPFATHER'S DEATH, by WESLEY MCNAIR    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Again it is the moment before I left home
Last Line: And speeding away into the last years of his life
Subject(s): Dreams


AFTER READING THE RUBAIYAT, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Still burning, let me cast the cup of youth aside
Last Line: The blood of life's unraptured warriors.
Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Night; Youth; Nightmares; Bedtime


AFTER SLEEP, by LENNART SJOGREN    Poem Source                    
First Line: He falls asleep in the afternoon. Meanwhile the clouds rise
Last Line: Everything is fin-like, before the age of man
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep


AFTER THE COYOTES' SONG, by ROBERT WRIGLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now night is clearly darker than before
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


AFTERMATH, by JORDAN MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Measuring all things as a man,
Last Line: Remind the sun of promises to keep.
Subject(s): Dreams; Sex; Sleep


AFTERNOON AT A PARSONAGE, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What wonder man should fail to stay
Last Line: Doth near its fellows seem to be.
Subject(s): Brotherhood; Children; Dreams; Memory; Night; Plays & Playwrights ; Tears; Childhood; Nightmares; Bedtime; Dramatists


AFTERWARDS, by RANDALL JARRELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sleep: here's your bed ... You'll not come, any more, to ours
Last Line: Run away, little comet's-hair-comber!
Subject(s): Death; Sleep; Dreams; Dead, The; Nightmares


AGAINST THE REST OF THE YEAR, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The meadow's a dream I'm working to wake to
Last Line: Forever comes to mind, and peaks where the snow stays
Subject(s): Dreams; Rivers; Winter; Nightmares


AGE OF WINGS, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: My nape slit open
Last Line: It's three circles old
Subject(s): Dreams


AIR OF DIABELLI'S, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Call it to mind, o my love
Last Line: Love's own river ripples in the reeds.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Dreams; Eden; Love; Nightmares


AIR, TO DREAM IN, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Leave it leave it
Last Line: A poem for you
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Sleep; Nightmares


AIRS FOR THE LUTE: 3, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why are you so sorrowful in dreams
Last Line: From the way of dreams!
Subject(s): Dreams; Lutes; Nightmares


ALASKA, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The phone rang in the middle of the fairbanks night and was always a
Last Line: The beer is on us.
Subject(s): Alaska; Dreams; Quilts; Sleep; Telephones; Nightmares


ALL IS NOT LOST WHEN DREAMS ARE, by THYLIAS MOSS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dreams float like votive lilies
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


ALL LAST NIGHT I HAD QUIET, by LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Dreams; Togetherness; Nightmares


ALL NIGHT I DREAM YOU LOVE ME WELL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Or never doubt again
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Dreams; Reality


ALLIGATOR'S DREAM, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO    Poem Source                    
First Line: A huge trunk stranded where the river flows
Last Line: Within a river's crystal palace fair
Subject(s): Alligators; Dreams; Rivers


AMERICAN DREAM, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: The paiute in modesto
Last Line: Began to sound the night, like crickets
Subject(s): Dreams; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration; United States


AN AFTERNOON, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am stirred by the dream of an afternoon
Last Line: And you -- and live it over.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Afternoon; Dreams; Faces; Lips; Love; Nightmares


AN ANGLER'S SOLILOQUY, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Bright fish, weak victim of my wiles
Last Line: Our hearts of guile beware.
Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Dreams; Fish & Fishing; Life; Dead, The; Nightmares


AN AUTUMN LEAF, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon my parchment, sadly old
Last Line: Of dreams we never quite forget.
Subject(s): Dreams; Leaves; Nightmares


AN ECLOGUE, TO THE MEMORY OF DR WILLIAM WILKE, LATE PROFESSOR, by ROBERT FERGUSSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Blaw saft, my reed, and kindly to my mane
Last Line: Fam'd as the urn that hads the mantuan swain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Dead, The; Nightmares


AN EMIGRANT, by JANE BARLOW    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Is she asleep, asleep
Last Line: Rest she adream, adream.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Immigrants; Rest; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration


AN EMPTY NEST, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I find an old deserted nest
Last Line: A phantom guest of empty dreams.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dreams; Summer; Youth; Nightmares


AN EQUATION FOR MARIE, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This dream prorogued / is not a cause
Subject(s): Dreams; Reality; Nightmares


AN EVENING SKETCH, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The birds have ceased their songs
Last Line: There might be realms of real happiness!
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Dreams; Evening Star; Serenity; Silence; Nightmares


AN HOUR, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You only promised me a single hour
Last Line: Where all the forms of time are like a dream.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Time; Nightmares


AN INVOCATION, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet sleep, with mellow palms
Last Line: And walled with harps, and roofed with crowns of gold!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dreams; Magic; Sleep; Nightmares


AN ODE COMPOSED IN SLEEP, by JUDITH (COWPER) MADAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lovely fairy! Charming sprite!
Last Line: And the prevailing voice of love.
Subject(s): Dreams; Self; Nightmares


AN OLD HYMN FOR IAN JENKINS, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All things we value in terms of contrast
Last Line: Of the dream is place.
Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Cities; Dreams; New York City; Southern States; Estrangement; Outcasts; Urban Life; Nightmares; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; South (u.s.)


AN OLD SWEETHEART [OF MINE], by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: An old sweetheart of mine! -- is this her presence here with me
Last Line: To greet the living presence of that old sweetheart of mine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Love - Beginnings; Childhood; Nightmares


ANABASIS: 1, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Then we poised, in time's fullness brought
Last Line: Blessed, among the many mansions
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Thought; Travel


ANABASIS: 2, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After the first night and bare morning passed
Last Line: The uncertain continent of a name
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Dreams; Imagination; Night; Sleep


ANAESTHETICS, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I dreamt I saw a healer stand
Last Line: "upsteals the saintly moon!"
Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Soul; Time; Youth; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness


ANAXIMANDER IS DREAMING, by MILAN DEKLEVA    Poem Source                    
First Line: A rooster, spy of the light, has taken my head away
Last Line: In the meantime the river has met the sky in the dew
Subject(s): Anaximander (610-547 B.c.); Dreams


ANCIENT BALLAD: LADY ALDA'S DREAM, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In paris dwelt a fair lady %orlando's promised bride
Last Line: That brave orlando had been slain %in the chase of roncevalles
Subject(s): Dreams; Women


AND HE WAS THE DEMON OF MY DREAM, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And the rumbling of caged beasts
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Death; Dreams


AND THE DREAMERS OF DREAMS, by JOHN OSCAR BECK    Poem Text                    
First Line: A maiden there is
Last Line: Be just for the children and fools and the dreamers of dreams.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


AND THIS IS CERTAIN; IF SO BE, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: O lawk! O criky! It's a dream!'
Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Roses


ANIMAL, by TOM SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: A still warm tabletop of stone
Last Line: Field and warms the ancient stone
Subject(s): Dreams; Night


ANNIVERSARY, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There were so many to pray for, o dear grey head
Last Line: All night long you grieved with me until the day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Anniversaries; Death; Dreams; Grief; Memory; Solitude; Dead, The; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


ANONYMOUS LETTER, by NICHOLAS CHRISTOPHER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Suggests it was in a previous life
Last Line: I hear now years later when I approach the sea
Subject(s): Dreams


ANTHEMES FOR THE CATHEDRAL OF EXCETER: 1, by JOSEPH HALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lord what am I? A worm, dust, vapor, nothing!
Last Line: Present me to thy blissfull throne.
Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Dreams; Life; Love; Sin; Dead, The; Nightmares


ANTIPHONY, by NANCY VIEIRA COUTO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh pale, white forms, clear forms
Last Line: Confusion and terrible profile
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Poetry And Poets


APART, by WINIFRED LUCAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A piece of cliff that broke away
Last Line: What power disposed, and understands?
Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs.
Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Nightmares


APOLOGY FOR BAD DREAMS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the purple light, heavy with redwood, the slopes drop seaward
Last Line: Foreland, the ever-returning roses of dawn
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


APPENDIX TO 'LAZARUS': 7, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At reason's solemn judgment-seat
Last Line: That I am ruin'd and forsaken.
Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Reason; Nightmares; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


APPLE, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am an apple
Last Line: It's good I can do that
Subject(s): Dreams


ARBITRARY FATE, by ROBERT DESNOS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The time of the crusades is coming
Last Line: We will brighten with lights unknown up to now
Subject(s): Surrealism; Dreams


ARCHIPELAGO OF DREAMS, by CHANA BLOCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Those long-stemmed glasses, islands where I drift
Last Line: Our faces tilting the water %like dazed icebergs
Subject(s): Dreams


ARDUIN, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rhasis %young master ion, what is this
Last Line: Men should not toil too much; there's madness in it
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Egypt; Immortality; Life; Love; Plays And Playwrights


AROUND & ABOUT TIBET, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: A perfectly round lake
Last Line: This is the famous %roulette lake
Subject(s): Dreams


AROUND LAKE ERIE AND ACROSS THE HUDSON, by RACHEL HADAS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A rotten week, affections
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


AROUND LAKE ERIE AND ACROSS THE HUDSON, by RACHEL HADAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A rotten week, affections
Last Line: I fin I'm giving thanks
Subject(s): Dreams


ARS POETICA, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is almost polio season. The girls
Last Line: Considering how beautiful she was.
Subject(s): Dreams; Girls; Massachusetts; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Smoking; Nightmares; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes


ART, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Art has her altars and her avatars
Last Line: A poe sleeps, folded in that perfect dream.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Dreams; Earth; Poetry & Poets; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Soul; Nightmares; World


AS IN VISION, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes in heaven-sent dreams I do behold
Last Line: What though my path lead through the wilderness?
Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


AS THE GREAT DAYS FLOW, by ENRIQUE MOLINA    Poem Source                    
First Line: An ancient terror burns in things, a deep and secret sigh
Last Line: As the great days flow across the changeless land
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Sleep


AS TOLL, by JOHN BARKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Lovely mabel, were you dreaming?
Last Line: Just for toll.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


AS WE READ BURNS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who is speaking? Who has
Last Line: You outhold so lovingly!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Dreams; Nightmares


ASHES, by ALEJANDRA PIZARNIK    Poem Source                    
First Line: The night splintered into stars
Last Line: The night suffers
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep


ASLEEP, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am abandoned to a dream
Last Line: As she glides at my side
Subject(s): Dreams; Deserts; Mirages


ASLEEP, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The waxen taper faintly gleamed
Last Line: His quiet vigil kept.
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Marriage; Sleep; Nightmares; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


ASOLANDO: BAD DREAMS, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night I saw you in my sleep
Last Line: Of scorn ... If only ghosts might blab!
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


ASPIRATION, by ISAAC ROSENBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The roots of a dead universe are shrunken in my brain
Last Line: And enaureole a glory round an unawaken'd theme.
Subject(s): Desire; Dreams; Nightmares


ASSOCIATIONS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You know the place is just the same
Last Line: And then I know that I am dreaming.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Memory; Dreams; Nightmares


ASYLUM VILLANELLE, by TOM SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The countless nights I've entered here
Last Line: I hesitate at chanticleer
Subject(s): Dreams; Night


AT A GRAVE, by ROBERT LEE CAMPBELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dreamings are ever in my heart
Last Line: On a saviour's tranquil breast.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Dead, The; Nightmares


AT DAWN, by AMY LEVY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the night I dreamed of you
Last Line: The empty day?
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


AT DUSK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A something quiet and subdued
Last Line: Would it were dusk alway!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dreams; Dusk; Faces; Nightmares


AT LENNO, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By lake como's sylvan shore
Last Line: I would dream that I am floating on the lake of long ago.
Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Life; Roman Empire; Nightmares


AT MALYA, CRETE: 1959, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: In a dream agony your image rises
Last Line: Our pleasure was another dreamer's pleasure
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep


AT ONE AGAIN: 3. THE DREAM, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What's this? A wood -- what's that? One calleth
Last Line: Art dead -- ere a friend can make it up?
Subject(s): Dreams; Night


AT THE FOOT OF A CYCLOPEAN WALL, THE MAN IN THE BLUE WORKSUIT, by JOSEP VICENC FOIX    Poem Source                    
First Line: In a fable and sleep I know that man who
Last Line: When the shadow of both is the single shadow'
Subject(s): Dreams; Sailors And Sailing; Shadows


ATLANTIS: 1. FAITH, by MARK DOTY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I've been having these / awful dreams, each a little different
Last Line: I didn’t know who I was trying to protect
Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Dreams; Dogs; Gay & Lesbians; Illness


ATLANTIS: 2. REPRIEVE, by MARK DOTY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I woke in the night / and thought, it was a dream
Last Line: It was only a dream
Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Dreams; Dogs; Gay & Lesbians; Illness


ATLANTIS: 3. MICHAEL'S DREAM, by MARK DOTY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Michael writes to tell me his dream
Last Line: What something is in order to hold it
Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Dreams; Dogs; Gay & Lesbians; Illness


ATLANTIS: 4. ATLANTIS, by MARK DOTY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I thought your illness a kind of solvent
Last Line: Drenched, unchanged
Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Dreams; Dogs; Gay & Lesbians; Illness


ATLANTIS: 5. COASTAL, by MARK DOTY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cold april and the neighbor girl
Last Line: Stubborn girl.
Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Dreams; Dogs; Gay & Lesbians; Illness


ATLANTIS: 6. NEW DOG, by MARK DOTY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Jimmy and tony / can't keep dino
Last Line: The animal, the new
Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Dreams; Dogs; Gay & Lesbians; Illness


ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 20, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas the sunrise. Golden arrows
Last Line: And the town jerusalem.
Subject(s): Dawn; Dreams; Jerusalem; Love; Sunrise; Nightmares


ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 3, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Summer-night's dream! All-fantastic
Last Line: Heard those sounds in earlier days?
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Summer; Nightmares


AUCTION EXTRAORDINARY, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I dreamed a dream in the midst of my slumbers
Last Line: Each lugged an old bachelor home on her shoulder.
Subject(s): Dreams; Single People; Sleep; Taxes; Nightmares; Bachelors; Unmarried People


AUF WIEDERSEHEN, by S. ABBOTT    Poem Text                    
First Line: The coals have lower, fainter burned
Last Line: To meet again.
Subject(s): Dreams; Hope; Thought; Nightmares; Optimism; Thinking


AUGUST, by TOM SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Caesar augustus, emperor, high priest
Last Line: Over rome, hiroshima, hollywood, spotlit and drafty
Subject(s): Dreams; Night


AUGUST THIRD, by YVONNE FLORENCE    Poem Text                    
First Line: We are so near the music
Last Line: And be free!
Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Music & Musicians; Soul; Nightmares


AUSTRALIAN TRANSCRIPTS: AN ORANGE GROVE, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The short sweet purple twilight dreams
Last Line: That stirs it from cicalas shrill.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Australia; Dreams; Dusk; Oranges; Nightmares


AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: In my childhood trees were green
Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In my childhood trees were green
Last Line: Come back early or never come
Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis
Subject(s): Dreams


AUTUMN, by MARJORIE STELMACH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Soon again the dead will outnumber
Last Line: Benediction suspended above us all summer?
Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Dreams; Seasons


AUTUMN TUNE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweeter than spring, sweeter than spring
Last Line: Where death is a-dream on azure wings.
Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Dreams; Fear; Life; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The; Nightmares


AWAKE AT NIGHT, RUINED BY THE MOCKING, by STEPHEN FRECH    Poem Source                    
First Line: A cockroach crawled across my chest last night
Last Line: And the large basin hummed like a bell
Subject(s): Absence; Death; Dreams; Love - Loss Of; Marriage


AWAKENING, by JORDAN MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Laughter ends the beleaguered night
Last Line: And ghosts are heavenly laid.
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep


AWAKING, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have lived as in a slumber
Last Line: And I lived what I had dreamed.
Subject(s): Dreams; Consciousness


AZTEC SONG, by STEPHEN BERG    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now my friends
Last Line: Put on a collar of rare stones
Subject(s): Aztecs; Dreams


BABE HERRICK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As a rosebud might, in dreams
Last Line: Of thy mother slumberest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Lilies; Roses; Nightmares


BABETTE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "the dusk of the night is sweet, babette"
Last Line: With a rose in your dusky hair!
Subject(s): Dreams;flowers;love;night;roses; Nightmares;bedtime


BAD DREAMS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The square is shadowy
Last Line: It wasn't you I was looking for
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Dreams; Shadows


BAGEL, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I stopped to pick up the bagel
Last Line: After another like a bagel %and strangely happy with myself
Subject(s): Bagels; Dreams; Food And Eating


BALLADE OF A DREAM ADDICT, by VIRGINIA SCOTT    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have no will to weep if love should leave
Last Line: The drug of dreams will ever ease the heart.
Alternate Author Name(s): O'neill, Virginia Scott
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


BALLROOM OF ANTIQUITY IN DREAMS, by SANDRA STONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who inhabits the dome, exquisite in her revolutions
Last Line: Breathe, breathe. Suffocate the messenger
Subject(s): Dreams


BANDAIYAN DREAMING, by JO ANN CLARK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here the land takes
Last Line: Shrieks in the trees. Your country
Subject(s): Dreams


BANISHMENT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The cliffs are battered like the people
Last Line: My dreams have banished me
Subject(s): Dreams; Mountains; Waiting


BECAUSE I DREAM, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Are only dreams
Subject(s): Dreams; Solitude


BEETHOVEN IN CENTRAL PARK, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The thousand-windowed towers were all alight
Last Line: With his own grief, and his own majesty.
Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Central Park, New York City; Composers; Dreams; Grief; Music & Musicians; Nations; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness


BEGINNINGS, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: All worthwhile beginnings follow a dream
Last Line: Till consequent beauty in action unfolds.
Subject(s): Dreams; Thought; Nightmares; Thinking


BEHIND EACH STAR, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Behind each star a small dream hides
Last Line: And fast asleep in bed
Subject(s): Stars; Dreams


BEING PARTIAL, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was a man %and I was trying to save a woman in danger
Last Line: Of water %loose at last
Subject(s): Dreams


BELLS JANGLED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I lie low-coiled in a nest of dreams
Last Line: Where I neither sleep nor wake.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Bells; Dreams; Sleep; Soul; Nightmares


BEREFT, SHE THINKS SHE DREAMS, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I dream that the dearest I ever knew
Last Line: And no one wakes me!
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


BERENICE, by FRANCES FUERST QUICK    Poem Text                    
First Line: Such silly things my baby sneaks to bed
Last Line: To want to keep them—'cause they help us dream!
Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Childhood; Nightmares


BESS, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When bess, the landlord's black-eyed
Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Dreams; Nightmares


BEST DREAMS, by JANET S. WONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Seems the best dreams %slip out of me
Last Line: Can't beat a matinee %in bed
Subject(s): Dreams


BETWEEN SLEEP AND WAKING, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Softly in a dream I heard
Last Line: Between sleep and waking.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT, by SEAN BENTLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is a dream in which it is
Last Line: The reason %the distance
Subject(s): Dreams


BIG MOON ON THE VERGE, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Of touching down %grounding in the bright snow all around
Last Line: Crux of grand bodies
Subject(s): Dreams


BILL'S STORY, by MARK DOTY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When my sister came back from africa
Last Line: Shut up, mother, I said, and annie died
Subject(s): Aids (disease); Sickness; Dreams; Dogs; Gay & Lesbians; Illness


BIOGRAPHY, by IDELLA PURNELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gregory had a proud mother
Last Line: I think he was reaching for the stars in the lake.
Subject(s): Dreams; Mothers; Stars; Suicide; Nightmares


BIRDELLO, by LAUREN SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: There were ten birds, each of which hated us differently
Last Line: And all the others accountrements of love
Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Dreams; Imagination


BIRTHDREAM, by LAURIE KUTCHINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: This time I had given birth
Last Line: The last I saw of her
Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Children; Dreams


BIRTHDREAM (2), by LAURIE KUTCHINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is the afterbirth I am after, the afterbirth's
Last Line: Like a pea-green crone skin washed %out of the sea
Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Dreams; Pregnancy


BIRTHDREAM (3), by LAURIE KUTCHINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: They lead me by the hand to a room over the barn
Last Line: On a dark quilt, breathing %prairie
Subject(s): Birth; Dreams


BIRTHDREAM (4), by LAURIE KUTCHINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Clear night and the river sounds closer
Last Line: Intent on passing swiftly
Subject(s): Babies; Birth; Dreams; Pregnancy


BIRTHDREAM (5), by LAURIE KUTCHINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Just before dawn my father came to say goodbye
Last Line: A golden song from stone
Subject(s): Birth; Dreams; Farewell; Fathers


BLACK ANIMALS, by ELIZABETH SEYDEL MORGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: If it had been a dream
Last Line: Can you realize that is the end of my story, and yours
Subject(s): Animals; Dreams


BLACK SWANS ON THE MURRAY LAGOONS, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The long lagoons lie white and still
Last Line: Moves as in sleep some bodeful dream.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Australia; Birds; Death; Dreams; Lagoons; Life; Swans; Dead, The; Nightmares


BLASPHEMY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: O fairy form, o flower-like face
Last Line: The dead, the dead must be.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Earth; Hearts; Love; Sea; Dead, The; Nightmares; World; Ocean


BLESSED DOLLS, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: We're making %jesus christ
Last Line: Sitting in a certain position %blessed dolls
Subject(s): Dreams


BLEST IS THE TARN, by SARA COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Blest is the tarn which towering cliffs o'ershade
Last Line: She yields that dream of bliss to ever welcome sleep.
Subject(s): Dreams; Lakes; Mountains; Tarns; Nightmares; Pools; Ponds; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


BLOSSOMS, by HALA JEAN HAMMOND    Poem Text                    
First Line: Not all of lifted florescence
Last Line: Rained blossoms of blood.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


BLUE SHIRT, by PAUL W. SKEETERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I saw a boy with a new blue shirt today
Last Line: And carry wistful fire in my eyes.
Subject(s): Dreams; Himalayas (mountains); Travel; Nightmares; Journeys; Trips


BLUE; 1: I WAS A GIANT MAN, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bright blue down jacket on my back
Last Line: Invisible against the other sky
Subject(s): Dreams


BLUE; 2: LOOK MOM, NO MINDS, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: This big hall is full of fakes
Last Line: Dying to be saved
Subject(s): Dreams


BOA-CONSTRICTOR'S DREAM, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Within his knots a strength mysterious lies
Last Line: With grace about a fair arm, round and white
Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Reptiles; Snakes


BODY OF THE DREAM, by SUSAN WOOD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was evening and gold light fell
Last Line: Trying so hard to get back to
Subject(s): Dreams; Giotto Di Bondone (1276-1337); Mothers


BON ESPOIR Y GIST AU FOND!, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One shimmering opal is all the air
Last Line: And we are not yet the devil's food!
Subject(s): Dreams; God; Moon; Moss; Secrets; Nightmares


BOOK OF DREAMS, by DAN FEATHERSTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: What becomes of the world outside a sleeping body
Last Line: Why is a book of dreams %: to lie between worlds
Subject(s): Dreams


BOUDOIR DREAM, by ZHU WUXIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The cold frosty dust flies swiftly while the water clock drip is slow
Last Line: Where can I find the source to light up my longing?
Subject(s): Dreams; Farewell


BOYHOOD WISH, by ALLEN BRADEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Just once come down from the mountains
Last Line: And comb stolen right from the hive
Subject(s): Dreams; Imagination; Wishes


BRAIN BRUISED, by KEN WALDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like gray space, or lake confused
Last Line: Ah, to be a cat, you think. %to experience, and shed, this life too
Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Blood; Bruises; Dreams; Nome, Alaska


BREAGHY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When twilight flutters the mountains over
Last Line: Come from this heart that was touched by the flame.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Nightmares; World


BREATHING, by BRUCE BOND    Poem Source                    
First Line: The night I scared awake in my sleep I rose
Last Line: The sound of air erasing itself, %a car radio entering a tunnel
Subject(s): Breath; Dreams; Sleep


BRIDGES OF DREAMS, by WILL CHAMBERLAIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I built a bridge of dreams across
Last Line: Of all my dreams.
Subject(s): Dreams; God; Religion; Nightmares; Theology


BRING FLOWERS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bring flowers to strew in the conqueror's path!
Last Line: They break forth in glory. Bring flowers, bright flowers!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Youth; Nightmares


BROKEN SLEEP, by MADELINE DEFREES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Three times a night, I climb from my percocet
Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


BROTHER BEASTS, by HUMBERT WOLFE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Winter is here / and there are no leaves
Last Line: May have some goal.
Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Soul; Stars; Winter; Nightmares


BROTHERLY, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And wasn't he the one that flew? And wasn't he the one
Subject(s): Self; Dreams; Nightmares


BULLETS, by VINCENT O'NEILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've heard bullets twice in my sleep-
Last Line: The dream's resolution seems to be %back in the holds of sleep beyond recovery
Subject(s): Bullets; Dreams; Sleep


BUT WHAT WILL THEY REMEMBER ..., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But what will they remember of the arm
Last Line: Which hid itself in her persistent heart?
Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Memory; Nightmares


BY AN INDIAN GRAVE, by MILDRED PLEW MEIGS MERRYMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sleep on, dead seminole - your bones are chalk
Last Line: And we two dream together, seminole.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meigs, Mildred Plew
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Native Americans; Dead, The; Nightmares; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


BY THE CH'EN GATE, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At dusk as wild geese winged their aery way
Last Line: But through me rang the name of kubla khan.
Subject(s): Deserts; Dreams; Dusk; Food & Eating; Tibet; Nightmares


BY THE SEA, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night a hand on my window tapped
Last Line: And the moan of the rising sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Dreams; Ghosts; Sea; Supernatural; Nightmares; Ocean


BY TWILIGHT, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         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


CALAMITOUS DREAMS, by JACK ANDERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: He dreamed the old woman he had jeered at in the street
Last Line: He tried to answer, he felt his voice die in his throat
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep


CALIBAN REMEMBERS, by THEODORE RUSSELL WEISS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Might %have gone with them
Last Line: As he must be, loathing, pitying, loving
Alternate Author Name(s): Weiss, T.
Subject(s): Dreams


CALIBAN [ON THE ISLAND], FR. THE TEMPEST, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Be not afeard: the isle is full of noise
Last Line: I cried to dream again.
Subject(s): Dreams; Sound; Nightmares


CALLER, by TOM SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Moth on the screen
Last Line: A knock at the door
Subject(s): Dreams; Night


CALLING DREAMS, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The right to make my dreams come true
Last Line: And stride into the morning-break!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Women; Dreams; Negroes; American Blacks; Nightmares


CALVARY, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Faint incense from the lily goes
Last Line: (and where is calvary?)
Subject(s): Calvary; Dreams; Nightmares


CARNAGE: 3. LOUVAIN, by PERCY MACKAYE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Serene in beauty's olden lineage
Last Line: Where the dead hail him william of louvain!
Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Louvain, Belgium; Silence; Soul; World War I; Dead, The; Nightmares; First World War


CARRIERS, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Together at the long table
Last Line: Or did you %actually do it?
Subject(s): Dreams


CASIDA OF THE OUTDOOR DREAM, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Jasmine flower and butchered bull.
Last Line: And in the bull, the young girl's skeleton
Subject(s): Dreams; Sky


CASTA DIVA, by DURS GRUNBEIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Exhausted, wearied by the burnt-out days
Last Line: Turn to the wall. Sleep. The radio's silent
Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Reason


CASTLE FROM A DREAM, by CZESLAW MILOSZ    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The city was castelike, compact, dense, multilayered, like the
Last Line: Drinkers, oh, to be thus restored to the senses, only that and %nothing else
Subject(s): Castles; Dreams


CASTLES, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a picture in my brain
Last Line: Upon the trestles.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


CELESTIAL HOBO, by BOB KAUFMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For every remembered dream
Last Line: There never was a night that ended / or began
Subject(s): Dreams


CHANGING FORM, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was riding my bike, minding my own business
Last Line: Into my own best %other -- you, still, somehow with me
Subject(s): Dreams


CHANT D'AUTOMNE, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The lamp is lit and all the world is gray
Last Line: "I paint my dreams."
Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Love; Memory; Passion; Nightmares


CHASING A RAINBOW OF DREAMS, by MABEL ETHLEEN PALMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: A pilot am I / roaming the sky
Last Line: At the end of my rainbow of dreams.
Subject(s): Dreams; Happiness; Nightmares; Joy; Delight


CHEMIN DE FER, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A chapel has fallen into ruins
Last Line: Its severed goose-wing of snow.
Subject(s): Churches; Dreams; Francis Assisi, Saint (1181-1226); Ruins; Saints; Cathedrals; Nightmares


CHILD-PLAY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As children play with toys
Last Line: Realities that choke them here.
Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Tears; Toys; Childhood; Nightmares


CHILDREN, by JORDAN MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here apostles %of my sleep
Last Line: As I, %apocrypha of dreams.
Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Sleep


CHILDREN'S SONG, by NEWMAN HOWARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Juveniles: is it snow on the hedges?
Last Line: Father's come home again, etc.
Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Life; Singing & Singers; Childhood; Nightmares; Songs


CHILDWIST, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Rapt dreamer, what revealments dost thou see?
Last Line: Still silent cherish till the daylight dies!
Subject(s): Dreams; Wisdom; Youth; Nightmares


CHIMERA, by ALBERT HUFFSTICKLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: If I
Last Line: I'll have to go %find you
Subject(s): Dreams


CHRONICLE OF THE RAIN, by RAFAEL ESTRADA    Poem Source                    
First Line: One of her nipples was red, tepid, carnal; the other, blue, looked
Last Line: The sea cease to exist?' I chose not to disillusion him
Subject(s): Dreams; Rain


CHUANG TZU, by A. F. EHRENBURG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Night - in the narrow darkness of my garret
Last Line: Or has a dream just vanished with the dawn?
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares


CLAIR DE LUNE, by ANTHONY HECHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Powder and scent and silence. The young dwarf
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


CLAIR DE LUNE, by ANTHONY HECHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Powder and scent and silence. The young dwarf
Last Line: The heart turns to stone, but it endures
Subject(s): Dreams


CLEANING, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was cleaning
Last Line: Through promises %to be
Subject(s): Dreams


CLOWN WITH BLACK WINGS, by NANCE VAN WINCKEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: His mop of red hair. Starched wings
Last Line: Lippizaners - way over near checkpoint nine
Subject(s): Clowns; Dreams


COBRA, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What are these nightmares
Last Line: Then slept in the cool dirt under the granary.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Dreams; Fear; Nightmares


COILED DREAMS, by VALERIE L. EGAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: She keeps them in the shed
Last Line: Unfurl themselves and glide %through the garden
Subject(s): Dreams


COLOR OF DREAMS, by LENORA STEELE    Poem Source                    
First Line: My brother came home from
Last Line: Pretty. How peaceful. City of cars the color %of dreams
Subject(s): Automobiles; Colors; Dreams


COMBING, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: All for the sake of lovely dreams
Last Line: Am sometimes left without a thought.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


COME AWAY, by TOM SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: While the pirates sat
Last Line: The world has asses' ears
Subject(s): Dreams; Night


COME SI QUANDO, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How thickly the far fields of heaven are strewn with stars
Last Line: As I lay marvelling at the riddle of my strange dream.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2)
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


COMING OF THE DAM, by SARAH COTTERILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is the first rain on a new lake
Last Line: First and looking out over the bare water
Subject(s): Dreams


COMMUNICATION, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Playing catch %with a huge round stone
Last Line: Break at the root of the spell
Subject(s): Dreams


COMMUNION: 6. ADSUM, by ARVIA MACKAYE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Song of the sylphin breezes
Last Line: And I in the world.
Subject(s): Dreams; Light; Nightmares


COMPENSATION, by RICHARD ALDINGTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As I dozed in a chilly dug-out
Last Line: And a cleft-open, dew-wet nectarine
Subject(s): Dreams; Perseverance; Gifts & Giving; Beauty


COMPENSATIONS, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not with a flash that rends the blue
Last Line: And ask no more in death.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Eyes; Love; Moon; Dead, The; Nightmares


COMPOSITION: 2, by LOREN KLEINMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In this night, in my half hour dreams, I
Last Line: The light, when in an instant, it is lost?
Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Love; Togetherness


CONDOR'S DREAM, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO    Poem Source                    
First Line: When in the sky the starry choir awakes
Last Line: Sinks into meditation when alone
Subject(s): Birds; Dreams


CONEY ISLAND BY NIGHT, by GUSTAV DAVIDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: City of dreams, / I watch you from the ocean's edge tonight
Last Line: Forever and forever. ...
Subject(s): Coney Island, New York City; Dreams; Seashore; Nightmares; Beach; Coast; Shore


CONFESSION 3.2.2, by KATHLEEN PEIRCE    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the dream, your body, having
Last Line: Of words, why wake unable to remember them?
Subject(s): Confessions; Dreams


CONGEALED DAYDREAM, by JAMES P. SCOFIELD    Poem Source                    
First Line: Spring, thrower of the summer spear, watches
Last Line: A space where nothing will change, except the place
Subject(s): Day; Dreams; Spring


CONGRATULATIONS, CHARLES H. WEBB, YOU'VE JUST WON TEN MILLION DOLLARS, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Despite my ph.D. In clinical psych, despite my high sat and gre
Last Line: As she tucks me in her bed where daddy snores, and I soon %burrow into blissful dreams
Subject(s): Dreams; Money


CONSCIENCE-STRICKEN, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tho' cool the hour, a fever blazed within
Last Line: Became our choice.
Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Sin; Truth; Voices; Nightmares


CONSENTMENT, by CATULLE MENDES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now ahod on the plain kept countless sheep
Last Line: She took her woollen robe and forth she went.
Subject(s): Dreams; God; Sheep; Nightmares


CONTENT, by PEARL H. LUEBKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Winter's heart is drowsy
Last Line: With content, content.
Subject(s): Contentment; Dreams; Nightmares


COOKING WITH EARTH, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: All manner of things %from the earth, and I
Last Line: As their very selves, favoring %being together
Subject(s): Dreams


COR CORDIUM, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet heart, true heart, strong heart, star of my life, oh, never
Last Line: And for thee the lowered banner, o sweet heart never!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Dreams; Future Life; Hearts; Loss; Loyalty; Man-woman Relationships; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Male-female Relations


CORINNE'S LAST LOVE-SONG, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How beautiful, how beautiful you streamed upon my sight
Last Line: Yet I would bear its darkest woes to dream that dream again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


CORNER-MAN, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamt a dream at the midnight deep
Last Line: When its corner-men are dead
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Dreams; Laughter


CORONADO, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On the beach at coronado curves the shore in crescent wise
Last Line: Curves to met the benediction of the californian skies.
Subject(s): Dreams; Islands; Night; Seashore; Ships & Shipping; Stars; Nightmares; Bedtime; Beach; Coast; Shore


COTTAGES ON DIVISADERO, by GARY SOTO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm walking inside the cavern of a wino's mouth
Last Line: A sprinkler right where you're standing
Subject(s): Dreams; Walking


CRACK IN THE AIR, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I saw it, instantly knew it, this
Last Line: And the blinding abundance of %breaking light
Subject(s): Dreams


CRESSIDA, by CHARLES WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fire catches agamemnon's crimson sail
Last Line: Flowed the delicious future of his dream.
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Nightmares


CRISIS, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Has life no seer, who, with enthralled throat
Last Line: Shall never again darken us with its woe.
Subject(s): Dreams; Fear; Life; Time; U.s. - History; World War Ii; Nightmares; Second World War


CROSSROAD, by TOM SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The unbroken field of snow
Last Line: All seasons beneath the snow
Subject(s): Dreams; Night


CUPID TURNED STROLLER, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At dead of night, when stars appear
Last Line: Safe is my bow, but sick thy heart.'
Subject(s): Cupid; Dreams; Night; Voices; Eros; Nightmares; Bedtime


CURIOUS BUILDER, by PAUL RANDOLPH VIOLI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A dream in which a butterfly crashes
Last Line: Whose memories with mine must therein rest
Subject(s): Audiences; Books; Curiosities And Wonders; Dreams; Poetry And Poets; Sleep


DAFFODILS, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If daffodils were merely yellow flowers
Last Line: In my love's gentle heart when she was young.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Daffodils; Dreams; Love; Nightmares


DARKNESS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I had a dream, which was not all a dream
Last Line: Of aid from them -- she was the universe.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Despair; Dreams; Nightmares


DARN THAT DREAM, by DAVID MELTZER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Darn that dream %and bless it too
Last Line: In a mulch of rotting %gardenias
Subject(s): Dreams


DARWIN'S MIMOSA, by ROGER CARL PFINGSTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: When it started raining this morning I woke from a dream of something
Last Line: -ing,' she said
Subject(s): Dreams


DAUGHTER, by MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Dreams; Daughters; Nightmares


DAVE FIELD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let me write you a rune of a rhyme
Last Line: Toward the topmost heights, dave field.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dawn; Dreams; Rhyme; Youth; Sunrise; Nightmares


DAWN, by ELSA VON FREYTAG-LORINGIVEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Colorless dawns
Last Line: Over the earth, and the air, and the sighing waves
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep


DAWN, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I embraced the summer dawn
Last Line: When I awoke, it was noon
Subject(s): Dawn; Dreams


DAY LABORERS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They straggle down the street; the morning light
Last Line: And leaveth not the poor uncomforted.
Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Labor & Laborers; Tears; Nightmares; Work; Workers


DAY LOGIC OF POETIC PROCESS, by LAUREL BLOSSOM    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Katie jumped into the ocean blue
Last Line: The world spilled over the brim
Subject(s): Dreams


DAY-DREAMS, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, sweet are the dreams that darkness brings
Last Line: The dreams of our waking hours.
Subject(s): Day; Dreams; Love; Waking; Nightmares


DAY-DREAMS, by EMILU ANDREWS THOMPSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dreamy-eyed, pensive; slender hand on knee
Last Line: What matters fortune, if you keep your dreams --
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


DAYBREAK OVER THE HALL OF FAME, by LEON LOISELLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I live within the shadow - hall of fame
Last Line: But dreams are short-lived, so true in life.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


DEAD TREE, by TOM SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Rain that nourishes is rain
Last Line: Walks on the river of rain
Subject(s): Dreams; Night


DEATH, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We toil and take our rest - we laugh and weep
Last Line: Dreams of strange regions, passing mortal taint.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Fates (mythology); Life; Love; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares


DEATH DREAM, by RAFAEL ESTRADA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The child prodigy had a sickly look, and his body was as soft as
Last Line: He said, 'I wouldn't know anything about that'
Subject(s): Death; Dreams


DEATH OF THE DREAMER, by HARRIET SEYMOUR    Poem Text                    
First Line: At dawning, with my head held high
Last Line: Upon the sky of june.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


DEFINITIONS, by LOLLY WILLIAMS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dreams are sticks of dynamite
Last Line: I shall be warm.
Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Solitude; Nightmares; Loneliness


DEJA VU, by TOM SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have fished here before
Last Line: A fish unbends. Green gills %surrender trees
Subject(s): Dreams; Night


DELIVERANCE, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You took my little dreams
Last Line: And showed them stars.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


DEPARTMENT STORE, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Closeout sale! %yes, and there's hardly anything left
Last Line: Is there nothing more here %howling from the deeps?
Subject(s): Dreams


DEPARTURES, by CHARLES CLIFTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: After the day's work, the book
Last Line: Emperor, and how they were received
Subject(s): Books; Dreams; Sleep


DESERT MADNESS, by FLORENCE H. HARKINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Eerie and dim, a ghostly twilight land
Last Line: "here in my apron I have saved his bones."
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


DESIRE, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ope! Ye everlasting doors, unto my soul's demand
Last Line: And I must stand within the halls resplendent, of my dreams.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


DESIRE, by EMMA HICKS MCDONALD    Poem Text                    
First Line: The antennae of a dream / reaching for honey
Last Line: Unseen.
Subject(s): Desire; Dreams; Nightmares


DEVELOPMENT OF AN ADULT NIGHTMARE, by THYLIAS MOSS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It starts when gathering mynas
Subject(s): Birds; Dreams


DIARY OF A POET RECENTLY MARRIED: NIGHT PIECE, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sea with no waves we recognize
Last Line: But who love it anyway
Subject(s): Diaries; Dreams; Memory; Poetry And Poets


DIARY OF A POET RECENTLY MARRIED: SOMETHING SO CLOSE, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Something so close to the soul
Last Line: Something true and not yet real, beautiful
Subject(s): Absence; Diaries; Dreams


DID I KNOW YOU?, by ROLF JACOBSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Did I know you
Last Line: That rise up from my sleep: %did I know you?
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Thought


DIM FACE OF BEAUTY, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dim face of beauty haunting all the world
Last Line: To a little sand.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Men; Peace; Stars; Nightmares


DIRE: 12. INTERCESSION, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O death, a little more, and then the worm
Last Line: Paris, september, 1869.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Nations; Soul; Dead, The; Nightmares


DIRECTIONS, by HELEN WINIFRED RIVOLA    Poem Text                    
First Line: How can I tell you
Last Line: Tis pan's pipes are playing!
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


DISCREPANCY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One dream the bird and blossom dreamed
Last Line: In fragrance and in song.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Nightmares


DISHES AND DASHES, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I always wanted (when I was a boy - and even
Last Line: And join the praying crowd
Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R.
Subject(s): Dreams; Water


DISILLUSIONMENT OF TEN O'CLOCK, by WALLACE STEVENS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: The houses are haunted
Last Line: In red weather.
Subject(s): Conformity; Dreams; Nightmares


DISTANT SONG, by HENRY SPIESS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A delicate and downcast air
Last Line: Dwells?
Subject(s): Dreams; Farewell; Memory; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Parting


DOG DREAMS, by JANET S. WONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our sad old dog %kicks his feet
Last Line: Chasing dreams %into the night
Subject(s): Dreams


DOGEN'S DREAM, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What happens when the god of spring
Last Line: On earth flying north.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Dreams; Zen Buddhism; Nightmares


DOMESDAY BOOK: DR. BURKE, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You've heard of potters' wheels and potters' hands
Last Line: This story to the coroner.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Life; Physicians; Religion; Dead, The; Nightmares; Doctors; Theology


DOMESDAY BOOK: ELENOR MURRAY, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Coroner merival took the hundred letters
Last Line: And at his house they talked the case and supped.
Subject(s): Dreams; Friendship; Letters; Love; Soul; Nightmares


DON QUIXOTE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Smiles for him, yes, and tears -- but most of all
Last Line: Who wrought so beautifully -- in his dream!
Subject(s): Don Quixote; Dreams; Knights & Knighthood; Smiles; Soul; Tears; Nightmares


DOOMSDAY POEM, by TOM SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: People could become extinct
Last Line: Mourners when we are extinct
Subject(s): Dreams; Night


DOROTHY, by MELISSA MORPHEW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wrist deep in biscuit dough, a dusting of flour
Last Line: Some hand-me-down clothes, a pasture %full of bitterweed and daisies
Subject(s): Dreams; Fairy Tales; Hurricanes; Kansas


DOWN HERE, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Down here the lilies wither away
Last Line: Always.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme
Subject(s): Dreams; Thought; Time; Nightmares; Thinking


DREAM, by SARAH FLOWER ADAMS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Methought I wander'd through a wilderness
Last Line: Thou wilt in thine own time, -- thy will be done
Alternate Author Name(s): Adams, Sarah Fuller
Subject(s): Dreams; God; Truth


DREAM, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: All night huddled together, sleeping beyond the hills
Last Line: Ing each other beside the sea, beyond the hills
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Passion


DREAM, by JOHN PEALE BISHOP    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And once again I was within that house
Last Line: Young eyes too quick with love to mock %the dead in that death-haunted dream
Subject(s): Dreams


DREAM, by LOUISE BOGAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O god, in the dream the terrible horse began
Last Line: The terrible beast, that no one may understand, %came to my side, and put down his head in love
Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs.
Subject(s): Dreams


DREAM, by EDGAR BOWERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamed last night I dreamed, and in that sleep
Last Line: Lay him who dreamed me still and, maybe, you
Variant Title(s): Le Rev
Subject(s): Dreams


DREAM, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: But now the dream has come again, the world is as of old
Last Line: I have denied thou wert at all -- yet still I fight for thee.
Subject(s): Dreams; Beauty; Nightmares


DREAM, by RICHARD WATSON DIXON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With camel's hair I clothed my skin
Last Line: At once, and he died looking towards my face.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


DREAM, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was the sung dynasty
Last Line: The waterfall stopped.
Subject(s): China; Dreams; Love Affairs; Tatars; Nightmares; Tartars


DREAM, by JACK GREENBERG    Poem Text                    
First Line: I know that the dream is not meant to stay
Last Line: That nurses the will and banishes doubt.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


DREAM, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Son of folly, dream thou ever
Last Line: Vain laments no longer raise!
Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Love; Youth; Nightmares


DREAM, by MIKHAIL YUREVICH LERMONTOV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By hot noon, in a vale of dargestan
Last Line: In cold streams out of it, and ebbed away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lermontov, Mikhail Yuryevich
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


DREAM, by MIKHAIL YUREVICH LERMONTOV    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: High noon in daghestan; a lonely valley
Last Line: Blood seeped in failing streams into the sand
Alternate Author Name(s): Lermontov, Mikhail Yuryevich
Subject(s): Dreams


DREAM, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I see a spirit
Last Line: But I, myself,—alas!
Subject(s): Dreams; Old Age; Nightmares


DREAM, by JOSEPHINE MILES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I see you displaced, condensed, within my dream
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


DREAM, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The committee - now a permanent body
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Composers; Dreams; Music & Musicians; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Nightmares


DREAM, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The committee - now a permanent body
Last Line: Enough. J. Sebastian - born at eisenach: %its coat-of-arms in my dreams: bach plays bach!
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750); Composers; Dreams; Music And Musicians; Universities & Colleges - Faculty


DREAM, by THEODORE ROETHKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I met her as a blossom on a stem
Last Line: I came to love, I came into my own
Subject(s): Dreams; Love


DREAM, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was running after a car
Last Line: I'm going to fuck around a graveyard
Subject(s): Dreams


DREAM, by KAREN WHITEHILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Naked doll posed on a red velvet couch
Last Line: The late blooming flowers, %full moon shining through
Subject(s): Dreams; Girls


DREAM, by SUSAN WHITMORE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your house is elegant and almost empty
Last Line: And the moonlight falls like a ghost %to the floor
Subject(s): Dreams


DREAM #2, by KAREN JANOWSKY    Poem Source                    
First Line: You and I make paper airplanes from used diaries
Last Line: Down old south road, but you don't hear everything's gone
Subject(s): Dreams


DREAM 28, by WANDA COLEMAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The ace high avenue queen of shades
Last Line: And awake to find them full
Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep


DREAM AFTER DREAM, by DAN BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: All those major league imaginings....
Last Line: Stepping from it and melting into the crowd
Subject(s): Dreams


DREAM AND IDEAL, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Diana with her limbs of dream
Last Line: Across the distance for his sake.
Subject(s): Dreams; Love - Unrequited; Man-woman Relationships; Nightmares; Male-female Relations


DREAM AND LIFE, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The day was glowing, my heart, too, glow'd
Last Line: A nasty insect meets my sight.
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Dreams; Life; Tears; Nightmares


DREAM AND REALITY, by O. E. YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: The farmer stood by the cottage door
Last Line: On the rock-ribbed hills of maine.
Subject(s): Dreams; Farm Life; Sons; Summer; Nightmares; Agriculture; Farmers


DREAM BARKER, by JEAN VALENTINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We met for supper in your flat-bottomed boat
Last Line: Bone dry, old, in a dry land, jim, my jim
Subject(s): Dreams; Dinners & Dining


DREAM CATCHER, by HARRY HUMES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Just some grape vine braided into a circle
Last Line: A long shot against the world's %night without end
Subject(s): Dreams


DREAM DURING FIRST SNOW STORM, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: On this winter night a dream of susan
Last Line: To a cold wind in the power lines
Subject(s): Dreams; Snow; Winter


DREAM ENCONTERS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The measureless houses of dreams
Last Line: And all heaven with one heart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


DREAM ENTHRALLER, by SANDRA STONE    Poem Source                    
First Line: What town does the difference make
Last Line: A virtual parapet
Subject(s): Dreams


DREAM FANTASY, by THOMAS BRUCE REESE    Poem Text                    
First Line: My sleep / follows
Last Line: That a sweet dream can never quite return.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


DREAM FANTASY, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a land of dream
Last Line: Lie hush'd the valleys of dream?
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Future Life; Moon; Religion; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Theology


DREAM IN BLOOM, by CORA MAY PREBLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I found a gay dream
Last Line: For a cold winter day.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


DREAM IN WHICH I MEET MYSELF, by LYNN EMANUEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Even the butter's a block of sleazy light. I see that first,
Subject(s): Dreams; Self; Nightmares


DREAM JOURNALS, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A pen wearing its sock for a cap rested on paper
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


DREAM LOVE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I did not deem it half so sweet
Last Line: But beauty's self in you.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Love; Nightmares


DREAM MAY 18, 1958, by PETER ORLOVSKY    Poem Source                    
First Line: In a dream I bought a
Last Line: For I too will sit & look with my eyes %on the street
Subject(s): Dreams


DREAM MEADOWS, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Girt with great garths of shadow
Last Line: Beneath those silent skies.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Future Life; Pain; Spiritual Life; Dead, The; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Suffering; Misery


DREAM MOMENTS, by ALLETHA GOSS HARGRAVE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Faint trailing wisps of clouds
Last Line: When thou art night.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


DREAM OF ANTEATERS, by TOM SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: A palpitating darkness
Last Line: Eaten and taken by wild dogs %in jezeel-(wh le)
Subject(s): Dreams; Night


DREAM OF COUNT DRACULA, by TOM SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Screens slide left then right
Last Line: As dracula!-not the reflection of andromeda in my bedpan
Subject(s): Dreams; Night


DREAM OF DONEGAL, by GERTRUDE JANE CODD    Poem Text                    
First Line: I can see the little cottage by the sea, by the sea
Last Line: Oh, father, be a boy again, and not so cold and still!
Subject(s): Dreams; Parents; Sea; Nightmares; Parenthood; Ocean


DREAM OF FEASTS, by TOM SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bodyguards and breadboards line the walls
Last Line: Defines the (wh le)
Subject(s): Dreams; Night


DREAM OF FOXES, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the dream of foxes
Last Line: Safe through the generous fields
Subject(s): Dreams; Foxes


DREAM OF FREUD'S WITH REVELATIONS OF FOUR CLUES AND A FATE-DALI, 1951, by DENNIS SALEH    Poem Source                    
First Line: A uterus %floats %before the moon
Last Line: That will not %make up %its mind
Subject(s): Dreams; Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939); Psychology


DREAM OF HAT AND MOUTH, by LIZ WALDNER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A voice, maybe mine, is saying this
Last Line: It might have been the voice of the angry april day
Subject(s): Dreams; Voices


DREAM OF HERMAN, by WESLEY MCNAIR    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I was driving the old dodge wagon
Last Line: And opened one more song as wide %and delicate as the floating trees
Subject(s): Dreams


DREAM OF LIFE, by MARY ELIZABETH BROOKS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I heard the music of the wave
Last Line: Thus woke his wassail song --
Alternate Author Name(s): Norna; Aikin, Mary Elizath
Subject(s): Waves; Ships & Shipping; Dreams; Nightmares


DREAM OF MY HAT, by TOM SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bring me my hat, napoleon, I said
Last Line: (yes-who's sleeping this sleep) body
Subject(s): Dreams; Night


DREAM OF MYSELF AS A FISH, by DANUTA VIDALI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Two lines drew me
Last Line: My own
Subject(s): Dreams; Fishing And Fishermen; Identity


DREAM OF NOSES, by TOM SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Body english is the nuts. Five men
Last Line: Noses have wings, you fool. Such epiphanies %the websters bring
Subject(s): Dreams; Night


DREAM OF OLD CLASSMATES, by VICTOR CONTOSKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: August again 1961
Last Line: Which is now dark and silent
Subject(s): Classmates; Dreams; Past; Schools


DREAM OF ROOTS, by TOM SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: (wh le) someness falls short somehowl
Last Line: Suspence. The cuttlefish excrete a sepia screen
Subject(s): Dreams; Night


DREAM OF SOMETHING PERFECT, by NATALIE KENVIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My moor, my egyptian
Last Line: The bitter nitrates %of chemistry
Subject(s): Dreams; Perfection


DREAM OF THE CAIMAN, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Enormous tree-trunk crawling on the waves
Last Line: In the crystal palace of a river
Subject(s): Dreams


DREAM OF THE EGG, by TOM SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: (wh le) egg: the (wh le)
Last Line: Lo! On flagdays butterflies salute my flapping body
Subject(s): Dreams; Night


DREAM OF THE EVIL SERVANT, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We kept war in the kitchen
Last Line: I am wretched. Be my mother. Be my maid
Subject(s): Dreams; India; Nightmares


DREAM OF THE EVIL SERVANT, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We kept war in the kitchen
Last Line: I am wretched. Be my mother. Be my maid
Subject(s): Dreams; India


DREAM OF THE FAMILY, by TOM SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Which is more compelling: a likeness shared where difference
Last Line: Two boys and a mosquito burst (the dream) a screen
Subject(s): Dreams; Night


DREAM OF THE LOST MOTHER, by LYN DIANE LIFSHIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I can't tell how
Last Line: Of one bull all %the blood of another
Alternate Author Name(s): Lifshin, Lyn
Subject(s): Dreams; Mothers


DREAM OF THE REFRAIN, by TOM SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: What of my reflection in our windows
Last Line: Beside our gate six gaunt anointed riders wait
Subject(s): Dreams; Night


DREAM OF TRAINS, by TOM SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Pan bolts and trees blast off. The sun
Last Line: Frolicking like kids. (n w) what!
Subject(s): Dreams; Night


DREAM OF WINDOWS, by TOM SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wait-behind me caverns wait. My grandmothers
Last Line: Cepheid variables-what?
Subject(s): Dreams; Night


DREAM OF ZINNIAS, by TOM SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: What garden is this? Where I expand revolving
Last Line: Flattering a moss-grown basin-pod, pot, pan
Subject(s): Dreams; Night


DREAM ON, by JAMES TATE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some people go their whole lives
Subject(s): Dreams; Human Behavior; Nightmares; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature


DREAM SONG: 1, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Long years ago, within a distant clime
Last Line: May turn me from the lady of my dreams.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


DREAM SONG: 2, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pray, what can dreams avail
Last Line: Why should a maiden's dreams prevail?
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


DREAM TRAGEDIES, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Thou art not always kind, o sleep
Last Line: With a mad cry that dream, and wake.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


DREAM VISION FROM THE BOOK OF DOGS, by BRUCE BOND    Poem Source                    
First Line: A man was talking to a dog
Last Line: Not now, there's more, I promise...
Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Dreams


DREAM WAR, by RAFAEL ESTRADA    Poem Source                    
First Line: With his eyes closed, he looked like a dead man on some eternal ship
Last Line: A wilderness rooted in a nighttime that knows nothing of daybreaks'
Subject(s): Dreams; Exiles; Soldiers


DREAM WITH CLAM-DIGGERS, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This dream budded bright with leaves round the edges
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Dreams; Innocence; Nightmares


DREAM-LAND, by WILLIAM C. CAMERON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis not knee-deep 'mong growing grass
Last Line: Has failed to give our heritage!
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


DREAM-LIFE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Listen, friend, and I will tell you
Last Line: And, indeed -- I never know.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Life; Pain; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery


DREAM-MARCH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wasn't it a funny dream! - perfectly bewild'rin'!
Last Line: Some go to dream them; and some go to bed!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Night; Travel; Childhood; Nightmares; Bedtime; Journeys; Trips


DREAM-PEDLARY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If there were dreams to sell
Last Line: Ever to last!
Variant Title(s): Dreams To Sell
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


DREAM-SONG SEA-SONG, by EUNICE W. GILKEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Take me / bear me gently - lightly
Last Line: Waves of sea.
Subject(s): Dreams; Sea; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Ocean; Songs


DREAM: THE DISCLOSURE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I would further than I have
Last Line: The juices are harmless, they are not poison, they are life
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


DREAM: THE DISCLOSURE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I would further than I have
Last Line: The juices are harmless, they are not poison, they are life
Subject(s): Dreams


DREAMCATCHER, by SUSAN BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's catching the wrong ones, this twig curved
Last Line: Watch, my wrist circled by the band's invisible curve
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep


DREAMER, by BEATRICE RAW    Poem Text                    
First Line: Let the brave soul boldly go
Last Line: From tempests of reality.
Subject(s): Dreams; Reality; Soul; Nightmares


DREAMER, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are few probabilities through
Last Line: That it jogs
Subject(s): Dreams; Sea Voyages; Slavery; Faith; Christianity; Social Commentaries


DREAMER, by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Her dreams. The scented breath of june
Last Line: The whole world lies between the hips %of love. He moans. He swoons. He wakes
Subject(s): Dreams; Love


DREAMER'S MEADOW, by FANIA KRUGER    Poem Text                    
First Line: He toils and dreams in every weather
Last Line: When the dream and the crop have grown together?
Subject(s): Dreams; Labor & Laborers; Nightmares; Work; Workers


DREAMER, SAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dreamer, say, will you dream for me
Last Line: Breaks the sleep of the silence there?
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Sea; Nightmares; Ocean


DREAMERS OF DREAMS, by WILLIAM HERBERT CARRUTH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We are all of us dreamers of dreams
Last Line: When the last of his dreams is dead.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


DREAMING, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Softly through my soul tonight
Last Line: Gladdened by these tender eyes- / ah! I'm merely dreaming
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


DREAMING, by LOLA HASKINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh you're dreaming all right, gold-trimmed and
Last Line: Parts of our dreams: comets, burning, ecstasy, nothing at all
Subject(s): Dreams


DREAMING, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The moan of a wintry soul
Last Line: In the shelter of words where they rest.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


DREAMING, by GEORGE MCCALLA SPEARS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dreams are the mists of thoughts
Last Line: If sometime, sweetheart, you could dream of me!
Subject(s): Desire; Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares


DREAMING OF CRAB, by KEN WALDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: One night in nome
Last Line: The crustaceans will sink, %at peace among their own
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Nome, Alaska; Sleep


DREAMING OF DREAMS, by MABEL A. HANSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am dreaming of dreams today
Last Line: I am sad in my dreaming of dreams.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


DREAMING OF PRAGUE, by CATHRYN HANKLA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I float without volition, and I know I am dreaming of prague. I
Last Line: Shrouded in snow. Below it, vladimir has written: 'this is prague %you do not know'
Subject(s): Dreams; Learning


DREAMING OF YUAN CHEN, by PO CHU-YI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At night you came and took my hand and we wandered together in my dream
Last Line: Among the shadows of the terrace of night did you know them or not?
Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi
Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Death; Dreams; Dead, The; Nightmares


DREAMINGS, by PATRICK MACGILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The bog blossom's golden pistil
Last Line: One who has ne'er forgotten, one who can ne'er forget.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Flowers; Memory; Dead, The; Nightmares


DREAMLAND, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In wonderful dreamland where lovers are free
Last Line: Not only for time, but for eternity.
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Passion; Sleep; Nightmares


DREAMLAND, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Over the silent sea of sleep
Last Line: On the dreamings of the night.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


DREAMLAND, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I woke from dreams of rare delight
Last Line: And reawaken . . . Nevermore.
Subject(s): Children; Death; Dreams; Sleep; Youth; Childhood; Dead, The; Nightmares


DREAMS, by AUGUSTE ANGELLIER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Often I dream your big blue eyes
Last Line: And dim with dear distress.
Subject(s): Dreams; Eyes; Nightmares


DREAMS, by GAMALIEL BRADFORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Come to me in my dreams, and I
Last Line: Dreams will be quite enough for yours.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


DREAMS, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It looks as if in dreams the soul was free
Last Line: And turns and hides its shame with some poor sorry jest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


DREAMS, by JULIET H. CAMPBELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Many, oh! Man, are the wild dreams beguiling
Last Line: Love was her heaven, now heaven is her love.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Juliet H.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


DREAMS, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Often I sit and spend my hour
Last Line: And worketh in the end -- his will.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


DREAMS, by PAUL CLAUDEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: At night, on your way to listen to music
Last Line: Like a ripe and heavy thought
Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Sleep


DREAMS, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We have our dreams; not happiness
Last Line: Nor care a penny what we dream
Subject(s): Cities; Dreams; Urban Life; Nightmares


DREAMS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When the sun, rising in glory
Last Line: Looking down on you and me.
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares


DREAMS, by RAFAEL ESTRADA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dreams, like fictions, are always at the edge of their own meaning
Last Line: In the nightmares of the damned there's a telephone %ringing incessantly
Subject(s): Dreams; Psychology


DREAMS, by JOHN MILTON HAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I love a woman tenderly
Last Line: And truth I find alone in dreams.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


DREAMS, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here we are all, by day; by night w'are hurl'd
Last Line: By dreames, each one, into a sev'rall world.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


DREAMS, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mysterious shapes, with wands of joy and pain
Last Line: The proof if heaven be, or only seem, %that we forever choose what we will dream!
Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt
Subject(s): Dreams


DREAMS, by EMMA LAZARUS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A dream of lilies: all the blooming earth
Last Line: And life has nothing like death's dreamless sleep.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


DREAMS, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a season when I loved
Last Line: Smile on me in my dreams!
Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


DREAMS, by WINIFRED LUCAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh rule me to be wholly thine
Last Line: A dream of stars and snow!
Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs.
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Nightmares


DREAMS, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell the fair dreamer, now that dreams are over
Last Line: That warms the soul as summer does the flower
Subject(s): Dreams


DREAMS, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I hope some day to write a song that will
Last Line: Coal, you struggle on accordin'.
Subject(s): Ambition; Dreams; Wishes; Nightmares


DREAMS, by VIRGINIA TAYLOR MCCORMICK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On a hill, facing heaven, I have prayed alone
Last Line: I would be in the valley, with four walls and you.
Subject(s): Dreams; Heaven; Nightmares; Paradise


DREAMS, by MYONGOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is said that a lover seen in dreams
Last Line: Let me see you; let me see you always
Subject(s): Dreams; Love


DREAMS, by MARY OLIVER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All night %the dark buds of dreams
Last Line: And the fire surges through the wood, %and the blossoms blossom
Subject(s): Dreams; Night


DREAMS, by LINDA PASTAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dreams are the only
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


DREAMS, by EDGAR ALLAN POE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! That my young life were a lasting dream!
Last Line: Than young hope in his sunniest hour hath known.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


DREAMS, by PHILIP MAX RASKIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I will not change my path with you
Last Line: For all your dreams of gold.
Alternate Author Name(s): Raskin, P. M.
Subject(s): Dreams; Materialism; Worship; Nightmares


DREAMS, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Even a fool can tell you that a week
Last Line: The dream of it will run from door to door.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


DREAMS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I dream of her the whole night long
Last Line: The pillows wet with tears.
Subject(s): Dreams; Love - Unrequited; Nightmares


DREAMS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our dreams but tell the thoughts of those
Last Line: In lights and shadows not its own.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


DREAMS, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I gave my life to another lover
Last Line: Is waiting tho' I see him not.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Dreams; Love - Loss Of; Nightmares


DREAMS, by HENRY TIMROD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who first said 'false as dreams?' not one who saw
Last Line: All allegories with deep hearts of truth %that tell us solemn secrets of ourselves
Subject(s): Dreams


DREAMS, by THOMAS TRAHERNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis strange! I saw the skies
Last Line: From whence all joy, from whence all sorrow springs.
Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Nightmares


DREAMS, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Most dreams are like the tide upon the beach
Last Line: And prophecies no daylight can impeach!
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


DREAMS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thank god for dreams! I, desolate and lone
Last Line: Thank god, thank god for dreams!
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Dreams; God; Kisses; Pain; Soul; Nightmares; Suffering; Misery


DREAMS (1), by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dream on, for dreams are sweet
Last Line: Oh, weep when thou awakest!
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


DREAMS (2), by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What dreams we have and how they fly
Last Line: Upon our souls, all dreams -- ah! Dreams.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


DREAMS AND FANCIES, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Every moment in the gloaming
Last Line: Halos all our sorrow.
Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Love; Memory; Soul; Nightmares


DREAMS ARE ALSO WOUNDS, by BREYTEN BREYTENBACH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thus every dream secretly and small inscribes in letters
Last Line: Assuredly, these wounds will never heal
Subject(s): Dreams


DREAMS ARE BEST, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I just think that dreams are best
Last Line: Oh, I think that dreams are best!
Subject(s): Dreams; Heaven; Nightmares; Paradise


DREAMS ARE THE SUBTLE DOWER, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Into the precinct raw %possessed before
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1376; Poem: 140
Subject(s): Dreams


DREAMS EROTIC, DREAMS NOT, by NED O'GORMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sheet was pulled tight
Last Line: Or simply incontestable balking
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep


DREAMS IN ROME, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What is it that sings a sleepy tune in my head?
Last Line: Is there no rest for me here? Are there dreams in rome?
Subject(s): Dreams; Rome, Italy; Nightmares


DREAMS IN THE DUSK, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: May find your heart at dusk
Subject(s): Dreams


DREAMS IN WAR TIME, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wandered through a house of many rooms.
Subject(s): Dreams; Youth; Transience; Nightmares; Impermanence


DREAMS OF FLIGHT, by KRISTINE A. SOMERVILLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: It started with the cardboard wings my brother built, wings with
Last Line: Studying the pure gliding principle
Subject(s): Air Travel; Aviation And Aviators; Dreams; Flight


DREAMS OF THE ANIMALS, by MARGARET ATWOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mostly the animals dream / of other animals
Last Line: Dreams of sawdust
Subject(s): Animals; Dreams


DREAMS OF THE PAST, by ELIZA COOK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As we wander alone where the moonlight resposes
Last Line: Would thrust from its visions the dreams of the past?
Subject(s): Dreams; Past; Nightmares


DREAMS REALIZED, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We all have dreams when we are young
Last Line: Bring free gifts elysian.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


DREAMS WITHIN DREAMS, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have gone out and seen the lands of faery
Last Line: And beauty and peace and sorrow are dreams within dreams.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Fairies; Grief; Peace; Secrets; Wisdom; Nightmares; Elves; Sorrow; Sadness


DREAMS: ON THE HUNTING GROUND, by DANIEL CHAUNCEY BREWER    Poem Text                    
First Line: We sleep upon fir-tree boughs at night
Last Line: For the coming by and by.
Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Dreams; Love; Nightmares


DREAMS; SONNET, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I do not care to talk to you although
Last Line: Reverse their leaves and shimmer through the woods.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


DREAMS?, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My spirit slips away at night
Last Line: Will waken daily with a smile.
Subject(s): Dreams; Future Life; Soul; Truth; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


DREAMTIME, by CATHERINE MAIR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Alice is tiny
Last Line: She isn't barking up a gumtree %alice is growing
Subject(s): Dreams; Fairy Tales


DREAMWORK THREE, by JEROME ROTHENBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A trembling old man dreams of a chinese garden
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


DREM OF FARMHOUSES, by JORGE CARRERA ANDRADE    Poem Source                    
First Line: My shadow, penetrated by dwy pastures
Last Line: I work like a bee in the hive of the spirit
Subject(s): Dreams; Farm Life


DROWN, by NICOLE BLACKMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am sick with this
Last Line: This will only take an hour %or two
Subject(s): Dreams; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships


DRUNKARD'S DREAM, by LAURA LEE WASHBURN    Poem Source                    
First Line: She gauges the temperature at night
Last Line: A draft hollowed from her voice %slides under the door
Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Dreams


EAST OF THE SUN AND WEST OF THE MOON, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Say the year is the year of the phoenix
Last Line: Creates the image in which the world is
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Dreams; Fables; Fantasy; Masks; Shadows


ECSTASY, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The moon shines now
Last Line: Hour of delight!
Subject(s): Dreams; Forests; Love; Moon; Nightmares; Woods


EIGHTEEN DAYS WITHOUT YOU: DECEMBER 2ND, by ANNE SEXTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I slept last night
Subject(s): Sleep; Dreams; Mothers; Death; Nightmares; Dead, The


ELECTRA: DREAMS COME TRUE. CHORUS, by SOPHOCLES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If I am not a fool in prophecy
Last Line: Unless this dream comes true.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


ELEGY AT NOON, by PAUL SOUCHON    Poem Text                    
First Line: When in the street at noon the human tide
Last Line: Through all his blood roll the resplendent light.
Subject(s): Dreams; Lips; Nightmares


ELIZABETH BISHOP COMES TO DINNER, by SUSAN PLINER    Poem Source                    
First Line: First, you should know it's a dream. I've been readinf
Last Line: Hums: elegant passion of cold, loss, iridescence, %(wire, cages, water) says the woman from vassar
Subject(s): Bishop, Elizabeth (1911-1979); Dreams


EMILY (ON BEING TOLD TO CEASE DAY-DREAMING), by LELAND WEST    Poem Text                    
First Line: She locked the house behind her
Last Line: She kept the silver key.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


EMPIRE OF DREAMS, by CHARLES SIMIC    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On the first page of my dreambook
Subject(s): Dreams; War; Nightmares


ENCHANTMENT, by GEORGE H. DILLON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                
First Line: No man can say what spell was thrust
Last Line: With earth through darkness disenchanted.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


END OF SOME WORLD IN EVERY WAKING, by FLORENCE WEINBERGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The legendary have seminal dreams
Last Line: That blinding explosion of a smile
Subject(s): Dreams


ENDING, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A fitting benediction of words
Last Line: Opened its eyes and perished.
Subject(s): Dreams; Talk; Nightmares


ENDING IN THE DEFINITION OF THE ANCIENT GREEK WORD EION, by ZONA TETI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dreams of eden swirl in thin smoke
Last Line: That 'lower part of the face over which tears flow'
Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Tears


ENEMY, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I dreamed that I was already dust-that I was a meter
Last Line: From it like a honeycomb dripping with honey
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Emotions; Enemies


EPITAPH, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I loved, was loved. The puff of smoke called life
Last Line: I lie where I may dream, nor dream in vain.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Epitaphs; Graves; Life; Love; Dead, The; Nightmares; Tombs; Tombstones


EQUATION FOR MARIE, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This dream prorogued %is not a cause
Last Line: For it is being %and no seeming
Subject(s): Dreams; Reality


ESSAY ON ERROR (2ND DRAFT), by ANNE CARSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is also true I dream about soiled suede gloves
Last Line: I still remember the phrase every time I pass that spot
Subject(s): Dreams; Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939)


EURYDICE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Orpheus, the night is full of tears and cries
Last Line: Wait, and see hell yield up eurydice.
Subject(s): Dreams; Mythology - Classical; Night; Orpheus; Tears; Nightmares; Bedtime


EVEN IN MY SLEEP, by JANET S. WONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am holding two pieces of candy
Last Line: Even %in my sleep
Subject(s): Dreams


EVENING, by ALBERT SAMAIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The evening's angel passes where flowers glow..
Last Line: An angel gathers this sad dream of thine.
Subject(s): Dreams; Evening; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Nightmares; Sunset; Twilight


EVENING STAR, by PABLO ANTONIO CUADRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: We saw the flames raise the night
Last Line: And bathes its naked ardor in the waters
Subject(s): Dreams; Evening Star


EVENING WITH LEE SHORE AND CLIFFS, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sea-shimmer, faint haze, and far out a bird
Last Line: Behind him not the sea's gaiety but its laughter
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Dreams; Evening; Sleep


EVES, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When life is very lonely
Last Line: You passing by!
Subject(s): Dreams; Eyes; Love; Nightmares


EXCAVATION, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is delicate work
Last Line: Words breaching ground each god breaks through in %back alive!
Subject(s): Dreams


EXCHANGE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am watching a woman swim below the surface
Last Line: And I, having exchanged with her, will swim %away, in the cool water, out of reach
Subject(s): Dreams; Relationships; Swimming; Women


EXTRACT FROM THE DREAM, by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh twilight! Spirit that does render birth
Last Line: Plods his sauntering way along, whistling the fragment of some village song!
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


EYE HATH NOT SEEN, by J. W. HAND    Poem Text                    
First Line: I've been to the end of the world and back
Last Line: As a dove that is free from all sin.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


FAILURE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For them that on the mountain fight beneath
Last Line: Unvigilant, unwounded; they but sheep!
Subject(s): Dreams; God; Life; Tears; Nightmares


FAIREST HOUR, by FRANCIS VIELE-GRIFFIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fairest hour, we must part
Last Line: And I did not—truthfully—know you were here.
Subject(s): Dreams; Time; Waiting; Nightmares


FALLING, by JANET S. WONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am running, running, running
Last Line: Sky turning pink %in the morning light
Subject(s): Dreams


FALLING ASLEEP OVER THE AENEID, by ROBERT LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun is blue and scarlet on my page,
Subject(s): Reading; Mythology; Dreams; Funerals; Poetry & Poets; Nightmares; Burials


FALLING THROUGH, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A mystic dreamer, fierce and wild
Last Line: He thought no more of power.
Subject(s): Dreams; Mysticism; Sleep; Nightmares


FAME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once, in a dream, I saw a man
Last Line: Who signs his nom de plume, the end
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dreams; Fame; Heaven; Life; Nightmares; Reputation; Paradise


FAMILIAR SPACE, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dinner in the living room
Last Line: How it %gets to you
Subject(s): Dreams


FAMILY ALBUM, by TOM SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Summer: he leers above his wine
Last Line: The woman scowls at the sun
Subject(s): Dreams; Night


FANCY AND IMAGINATION, by BERNARD BARTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a pleasure, now and then, in giving
Last Line: Woo your sublime delights, and bless you on my waking.
Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet
Subject(s): Dreams; Imagination; Nightmares; Fancy


FANTASY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Over all the dream-built margin, flushed with
Last Line: With the seraph of the darkness martyred in the fires of day.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Nightmares


FATALITY, by BARON WORMSER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was in the story buying the usual
Last Line: It was going to start snowing soon
Subject(s): Death; Dreams


FATE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: As two proud ships upon the pathless main
Last Line: So we two parted. Shall we meet again?
Subject(s): Boats;dreams;farewell;ships & Shipping; Nightmares;parting


FATHER OF THE MAN, by TIMOTHY MURPHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Last night I sought the lost scout in my dreams
Last Line: And I confuse the searcher with the lost
Subject(s): Dreams; Farm Life; Homosexuality


FAUST BOOK: FAUST IS TROUBLED BY A DREAM, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Faustus dreamt a strange dream, strange and deathly
Last Line: You have the magic touch
Subject(s): Dreams; Faust


FEAR AND COMFORT, by HEID E. ERDRICH    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the land my dreams inhabit, three dogs
Last Line: Written there in language only the body reads
Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Fear


FENIX, by TOM SLEIGH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Face cross-hatched by violet shadows that fall round her like a net,
Last Line: And on the other lens my ass
Subject(s): Dreams; Social Classes; Man-woman Relationships; Nightmares; Caste; Male-female Relations


FIELD WORK, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stained %glass, highly
Last Line: Take care of %light baby bees?
Subject(s): Dreams


FIELDS OF SORIA: 7, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Silvered hills %grey downs and sombre rocky places
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Love - Loss Of


FIN DE SIECLE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Life is a gift that most of us hold dear
Subject(s): Cynicism;dreams;life;love;oysters; Nightmares


FINGER-PRINTER, by MIRKO LAUER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I wake up in the middle of the night
Last Line: And I go back to sleep into the darkness
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep


FIRST DAY OF WAR, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twixt sleep and wakefulness sweet dreams that lightly pass. Calm
Last Line: Dead.
Subject(s): Courage; Dreams; Love; War; Valor; Bravery; Nightmares


FIRST THINGS AT THE LAST MINUTE, by ROBERT HASS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The white water rush of some warbler’s song
Last Line: With you, will have their way
Subject(s): Dreams


FISHERMEN, by TOM SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now the question of moonlight
Last Line: And our hunger is moonlight
Subject(s): Dreams; Night


FISHING, by KRISTY NIELSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Last night I dreamed I went fishing,' he tells me, and the fish
Last Line: Means my mind or that glow he uses to find me in the dark
Subject(s): Dreams; Fishing And Fishermen


FIVE CRITICISMS, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old pantaloon, lean-witted, dour and rich
Last Line: And we're the lonely dreamers after all.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Criticism & Critics; Death; Dreams; England; Hate; Pride; Soul; Youth; Dead, The; Nightmares; English; Self-esteem; Self-respect


FIVE DREAMINGS-1984, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Robed oscillations of knuckle
Last Line: Mirrors of belled reins. Their unbroken, %breaking tides
Subject(s): Dreams


FLEEING AWAY, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My thoughts soar not as they ought to soar
Last Line: Is the higher self that I long to be.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Life; Night; Thought; Nightmares; Bedtime; Thinking


FLIGHT OF PSYCHE, by RUFINO BLANCO-FOMBONA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The prison crushes me. Dark fancies haunt me
Last Line: Nor keep it bound in chains
Subject(s): Dreams; Freedom; Prisons And Prisoners


FLOWERS IN SUNLIGHT, by TOM SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: I do not care what you say, I say flowers swim
Last Line: While the sun spins
Subject(s): Dreams; Night


FLOWERS OF EVIL: PARISIAN DREAM, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That marvellous landscape of my dream
Last Line: Upon this sad, lethargic world
Subject(s): Dreams


FLYING, by JANET S. WONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: In their dreams %my friends can fly
Last Line: Cradling %my head
Subject(s): Dreams


FLYING DOCTOR, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Flying doctor in a small village
Last Line: You can pull down all the way %to cover your ears
Subject(s): Dreams


FLYING UPWARD, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Almost %vertically
Last Line: Straight to him, his arms, receiving %hold open
Subject(s): Dreams


FOOL, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: In black
Last Line: His two %heads
Subject(s): Dreams


FOOLS OF DREAM, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You will find them in lone hidings
Last Line: To the deathless fools of dream!
Subject(s): Dreams; Fools; Laughter; Time; Wind; Nightmares; Idiots


FOR A DREAM'S SAKE, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO    Poem Text                    
First Line: I threw from me my sweetest boon
Last Line: For a dream's sake.
Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Nightmares


FOR A STUDENT SLEEPING IN A POETRY WORKSHOP, by DAVID WAGONER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I've watched his eyelids sag, spring open
Subject(s): Classmates; Dreams; Schools; Sleep; Teaching & Teachers; Schoolmates; Nightmares; Students


FOR MY FATHER, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Over and over again I dream a dream
Last Line: In the quiet evening I am finding you.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Daughters; Death; Dreams; Fathers; Homecoming; Dead, The; Nightmares


FOR ONE SAKE', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One passed me like a flash of lightning by
Last Line: Dream while I wake and dream on while I sleep
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Dreams; War; Memory


FOR THE 'MOUCHE', by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I had a dream. It was a summer's night
Last Line: And I awoke at last in desperation.
Subject(s): Dreams; Magic; Mythology; Religion; Statues; Nightmares; Theology


FOR THE SLEEPWALKERS, by EDWARD HIRSCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tonight I want to say something wonderful
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleepwalking; Nightmares


FOR THE SLEEPWALKERS, by EDWARD HIRSCH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tonight I want to say something wonderful
Last Line: And wake up to ourselves, nourished and surprised
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleepwalking


FOREVER IN MY DREAM AND IN MY MORNING THOUGHT, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: He knows not when nor how
Subject(s): Dreams; Mountains


FORGOTTEN, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: France, you laugh too much, it seems. War will come to end your dreams
Last Line: France! You laugh too much, it seems. War will come to end your dreams.
Subject(s): Dreams; France; War; Nightmares


FOUR DREAMS SONGS, by JOHN BERRYMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The greens of the ganges delta foliate
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


FOUR O'CLOCK DEEP IN THE MORNING, by FRIEDERIKE MAYROCKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mouseryleader, he said, on the tracks of this dream
Last Line: Know what is right
Subject(s): Dreams; Love


FOUR QUESTIONS REGARDING THE DREAMS OF ANIMALS, by SUSAN STEWART    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is true, for the spaces of night surround them with shape and purpose,
Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Nightmares


FOUR: 9, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Supposing I dreamed this
Last Line: Which a poor wind will roam
Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E.
Subject(s): Dreams


FRAGMENT, by SUSAN TERRIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In dreams, my child says, you always see yourself
Last Line: They, too, will nourish
Subject(s): Dreams


FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: MURDERER'S HAUNTED COUCH, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So buckled tight in scaly resolution
Last Line: I will no more.
Subject(s): Conscience; Curses; Death; Dreams; Ghosts; Murder; Punishment; Revenge; Sleep; Supernatural; Dead, The; Nightmares


FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: SLEEPER'S COUNTENANCE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There smiles methinks
Last Line: And half-forgotten times.
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Sleep; Nightmares


FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: SORROW, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sorrow! Hast thou seen sorrow asleep
Last Line: Off her warm neck.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Grief; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness


FRAGOLETTA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O love! What shall be said of thee?
Last Line: The feet of love.
Subject(s): Dreams; Love - Nature Of; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess); Nightmares


FRIDAY NIGHT, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO    Poem Text                    
First Line: Friday night! Come draw the curtain
Last Line: On this peaceful sabbath night.
Subject(s): Dreams; Jews; Night; Sabbath; Shadows; Nightmares; Judaism; Bedtime; Sunday


FROG FROOM BASHO, by GREG HEWETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Monsoons have filled
Last Line: In your malarial %dreams
Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Love


FROM 'THE LIFE IS A DREAM', by PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We live, while we see the sun
Last Line: And that dreams themselves are a dream
Subject(s): Dreams; Life


FROM A LITTLE HANDBOOK ON DREAMS, by LAURIE KUTCHINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: If there are dreams I should remember
Last Line: Hand in hand %more than a human shadow
Subject(s): Babies; Dreams; Pregnancy


FROM BAD DREAMS, by DONALD JUSTICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why do we turn in our beds
Last Line: The retreating tail of tye monster winking and flashing
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


FROM MAIRI MACINTYRE'S JOURNALS (4), by DEENA LINETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The train-ride out to skye and blots
Last Line: What madness keeps us from imagining our age?
Subject(s): Diaries; Dreams; Saint Kilda (scotland); Writing And Writers


FROM MAIRI MACINTYRE'S JOURNALS (5), by DEENA LINETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: I suppose the american is right: dreamed
Last Line: In local guise, specific and expert
Subject(s): Diaries; Dreams; Saint Kilda (scotland); Writing And Writers


FROM MAIRI MACINTYRE'S JOURNALS (6), by DEENA LINETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: A fierce storm nearly carried my tent downhill
Last Line: That hold the world had peeled away and floated free
Subject(s): Diaries; Dreams; Saint Kilda (scotland); Writing And Writers


FROM SAGESSE, by PAUL VERLAINE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Slumber dark and deep
Last Line: Silence, like the grave.
Subject(s): Dreams; Rest; Silence; Sleep; Nightmares


FROM THE EAST TO THE WEST, by ANDREW LANG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Returning from what other seas
Last Line: Awake among the gossamers!
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Nightmares


FROM THE HILLS OF DREAM, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Across the silent stream
Last Line: On the hills of dream.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Dead, The; Nightmares


FROM THE THRESHOLD OF A DREAM I WAS CALLED, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And the gentle throb of the friendly hand
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Dreams; Hallucinations And Illusions; Imagination; Solitude


FULFILMENT, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This was my dream in may-to have one
Last Line: One golden bud -- a star -- smiles o'er the hill!
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


FUNCTIONS OF SLEEP: 1, by RAFAEL ESTRADA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The couple was sitting on a bench near the clearing of the
Last Line: Finger with a ring in which a lone tooth tried to echo a sad smile
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Romance


FUNCTIONS OF SLEEP: 2, by RAFAEL ESTRADA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I met her on the beach, and soon we were sitting face to face
Last Line: By the hand, I chose to make myself the accomplice of silence
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Romance


FUNCTIONS OF SLEEP: 3, by RAFAEL ESTRADA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The beautiful lady came up suddenly, walking next to me at a
Last Line: Have to give it back
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Romance


FUNCTIONS OF SLEEP: 4, by RAFAEL ESTRADA    Poem Source                    
First Line: She could never keep her hair combed. She was a redhead
Last Line: Cigarettes in her unquenchable flame
Subject(s): Dreams; Man-woman Relationships


FUNCTIONS OF SLEEP: 5, by RAFAEL ESTRADA    Poem Source                    
First Line: To die,' the child told me, 'is to sit still before a single
Last Line: Blood. And I knew: the ship was going to set sail
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Dreams


FUNCTIONS OF SLEEP: 6, by RAFAEL ESTRADA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I saw the sun's reflection, dreary and arrogant, in the river
Last Line: Wind up wetting the bed!'
Subject(s): Boys; Dreams


FUNCTIONS OF SLEEP: 8, by RAFAEL ESTRADA    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the famous sailors club of chelsea, I was eating next to
Last Line: Extraordinary had happened
Subject(s): Dreams; Sailors And Sailing; Ships And Shipping


G. SAYS HE KNOWS HOW TO CATCH TIME, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Which is falling fast
Last Line: I get mad and say, I'm not %telling you, period
Subject(s): Dreams


GASOLINE DREAMS, by VIRGIL SUAREZ    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You move between low riders, the chevies & impalas
Last Line: As they show you the long way home
Subject(s): Dreams; Gasoline


GENTLY DOWN THE STREAM, by JANET S. WONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like one fast fish
Last Line: Swimming gently %down the stream
Subject(s): Dreams


GEO-BESTIARY: 18, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was commanded, in a dream naturally
Last Line: 33. We'll all see god but not with our eyes
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Dreams; Epitaphs; Nightmares


GEO-BESTIARY: 30, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How much better these actual dreams
Last Line: He's never heard except in the pulse of dreams.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Dreams; Hope; Nightmares; Optimism


GEORGE DU MAURIER, by ARTHUR KETCHUM    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ah, if we only knew!' he said
Last Line: The land where all the dreams are true.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 17, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I wrangled in dream with the emperor thus
Last Line: "o emperor, come thou quickly!"
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Dreams; Germany; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Nightmares; Germans


GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 7, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I homeward went, and as soundly I slept
Last Line: And I awoke from my slumbers.
Subject(s): Dreams; Germany; Hearts; Sleep; Nightmares; Germans


GESTURE, by ELISABETH CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I clamored for a star
Last Line: Lord, let me grow! I prayed.
Subject(s): Dreams; Stars; Nightmares


GHAZALS: 1, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Unbind my hair, she says. The night is white and warm
Last Line: And a new sun to guide us, a holy book, tracked in new blood.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Dreams; Imaginary Conversations; Music & Musicians; Night; Nightmares; Bedtime


GHAZALS: 16, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is an hour before dawn and even prophets sleep
Last Line: Geometric convulsions, no doubt her civic theater experience.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Dreams; Travel; Nightmares; Journeys; Trips


GHAZALS: 17, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O atlanta, roseate dawn, the clodhoppers, hillbillies rednecks
Last Line: 150 lbs. I weigh 200 and was not allowed into her blue fuck room.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Dreams; Hunting; Southern States; Nightmares; Hunters; South (u.s.)


GHAZALS: 18, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I told the dark-haired girl to come down out of the apple
Last Line: My brain. We'll go to judah to wait for the apocalypse.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Dreams; Imaginary Conversations; Nightmares


GHAZALS: 20, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some sort of rag of pure language, no dictums but a bell
Last Line: Be needed, the sibyl will return as an undiscovered lover.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Despair; Dreams; Language; Travel; Nightmares; Words; Vocabulary; Journeys; Trips


GHAZALS: 25, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O happy day! Said overpowered, had by it all and transfixed
Last Line: Crying out for ice, release from time, for a cool spring.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Change; Dreams; Time; Nightmares


GHAZALS: 34, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When she walked on her hands and knees in the arab
Last Line: I see myself upside down clawing the floor.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Change; Dreams; Nightmares


GHAZALS: 42, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: New music might, that sucks men down in howls
Last Line: The drowned man's discovered scowling under the harbor's ice.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


GHAZALS: 57, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I thought it was night but found out the windows were painted
Last Line: Were what I truly wanted. So much silence and so many words.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Dreams; Imaginary Conversations; Regret; Nightmares


GHOST, by PAUL MARIANI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After so much time you think
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


GHOST, by PAUL MARIANI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: After so much time you think
Last Line: Growing dimmer with each oarstroke
Subject(s): Dreams


GHOSTS OF THE NEW WORLD, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are no ghosts, you say
Last Line: Calls to the slumbering host.
Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Death; Dreams; Earth; Explorers; Ghosts; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Supernatural; Dead, The; Nightmares; World; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers


GIOTTO'S DREAM, by PABLO MEDINA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The wall of the diner is gray
Last Line: Throw away the key
Subject(s): Dreams; Giotto Di Bondone (1276-1337)


GIRL IN NEW ORLEANS, by APRIL DENONNO    Poem Source                    
First Line: They city is not
Last Line: Inside us like it was our own
Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Omens


GIRL ON A LEDGE, by TOM SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The night drifts from the building
Last Line: Deliver us down corridors %north pole
Subject(s): Dreams; Night


GIVE US GREAT DREAMS, by MARIE LE NART    Poem Text                    
First Line: Give us great dreams, o god, while thou art giving
Last Line: And faith to leave the ultimate with thee.
Subject(s): Dreams; Faith; Nightmares; Belief; Creed


GIVE YOUR WISH LIGHT, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By day and night dream about happy death,
Last Line: As if sweet death were a whore? You are too proud
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Dead, The; Nightmares


GLAMOUR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Was it in the misty twilight, or
Last Line: My fancy, slowly slipping earthly anchor, sailed away?
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Day; Dreams; Evening; Love; Nightmares; Sunset; Twilight


GLENDEN'S DREAM, by EMILY JANE BRONTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tell me, watcher, is it winter?
Last Line: Unavenged the avengers fall!
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis
Subject(s): Dreams; Time; Nightmares


GO TO BED ANYWAY, by LORENZO THOMAS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Knowing I will not sleep tonight
Last Line: Tomorrow is a fiction %for those who need a dream
Subject(s): Dreams; History; Sleep


GOD'S DREAM, by WILLIAM NORRIS BURR    Poem Text                    
First Line: The man's a dreamer!' good! That places him
Last Line: Might speed the progress of his gracious dream!
Subject(s): Dreams; God; Nightmares


GOING AWAY ANY TIME SOON, by JOHN ASHBERY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'll see you in my dreams she said
Last Line: Puckered mists trash the hill ecstatic as lozenges
Subject(s): Abandonment; Dreams; Desertion; Nightmares


GOING AWAY ANY TIME SOON, by JOHN ASHBERY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'll see you in my dreams she said
Last Line: Puckered mists trash the hill ecstatic as lozenges
Subject(s): Abandonment; Dreams


GOING TO THE MOUNTAIN, by SHERRY FAIRCHOK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Don't go down the bank, my mother said
Last Line: Then I'd wake, thinking - sweetness, sweetness
Subject(s): Dreams; Mothers; Mountains


GOLDFISH BOWL, by ROSE ANDREWS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I dreamed one night the goldfish bowl
Last Line: And then, of course, I woke.
Subject(s): Dreams; Fish & Fishing; Nightmares; Anglers


GOSPEL BANJO: HOMAGE TO LITTLE ROY LEWIS, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Three days I lay with a fire under my skin, in the guest room
Last Line: Which is the joy of waking on either side of the jordan.
Subject(s): Banjos; Baptism; Dreams; Lewis, Little Roy; Musical Instruments; Prayer Meetings; Christenings; Nightmares


GRANDMOTHER'S SOUL, by SHARON GOLDYN    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's an almost eternal soft pillow
Last Line: As I lay my head down and %sleep to dream
Subject(s): Dreams; Grandparents; Memory


GRANNIE'S DREAM: A TRUE INCIDENT, by JANET HAMILTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beside the winter e'ening fire
Last Line: "the dream ye tauld this nicht to me."
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Dreams; Grandchildren; Grandparents; Nightmares; Grandsons; Granddaughters; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


GREAT PRAYER, by ALFONSO CORTES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Time is hunger, space is cold
Subject(s): Dreams; Hunger; Prayer


GREAT WHEEL DAY, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: So many peacocks on the road I
Last Line: Gives them free range across his altar
Subject(s): Dreams


GREEN OF MILDEW AND OF VERDIGRIS, by JANE MILLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Phosphor of night-cloud, old salt freighter
Last Line: Very mouth, very window, very sky
Subject(s): Discontent; Dreams; Love; Dissatisfaction; Nightmares


GRIEF, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An ancient enemy have I
Last Line: To conquer mine old enemy!
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Enemies; Grief; Pain; Dead, The; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery


HAD I NOT GROWN SUDDENLY SHORT OF BREATH, by LEO YANKEVICH    Poem Source                    
Last Line: A fawn in a laughing hyena's hold
Subject(s): Breath; Death; Dreams


HALF-FINISHED HEAVEN, by THEODORE DEPPE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Somewhere in his glittering seven-story labyrinth
Last Line: Of a plasterer I have this good chrome fender
Subject(s): Change; Dreams; Heaven


HANNELE, by GERHART HAUPTMANN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Abide with us in mercy
Last Line: Eia popeia, to heaven above.
Subject(s): Child Psychology; Dreams; Poorhouses; Stepfathers; Nightmares; Workhouses


HARLEM, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What happens to a dream deferred
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Variant Title(s): Dream Deferred;lenox Avenue Mural;harlem: 2;from Montage Of A Dream Deferred: Harlem (2)
Subject(s): African Americans; Dreams; Gays & Lesbians; Men; Racism; Negroes; American Blacks; Nightmares; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry


HARLEM, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What happens to a dream deferred
Last Line: Or does it explode?
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston
Variant Title(s): Dream Deferred; Lenox Avenue Mural; Harlem: 2; From Montage Of A Dream Deferred: Harlem (2
Subject(s): African Americans; Dreams; Homosexuality; Men; Racism


HASCHEESH, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stricken with dreams, I wandered through the night
Last Line: Honey of paradise, black dew of hell!
Subject(s): Dreams; Terror; Nightmares


HASCHISCH, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Behind the door, beyond the light
Last Line: In that insomnia which is god.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


HE AND I, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Just drifting on together
Last Line: For the sky.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dreams; Happiness; July; Life; Love; Nightmares; Joy; Delight


HE DREAMED HIS DEATH, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night - it was neither an-
Last Line: (or in the same place) as before
Subject(s): Death; Dreams


HEALING RITUAL, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's my grandfather
Last Line: And it catches fire
Subject(s): Dreams


HEART'S COUNSEL, by HASSOLDT DAVIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Look, lord judas, here, in the diligent brain
Last Line: A cross's width between.
Subject(s): Dishonor; Dreams; Jesus Christ; Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.); Tears; Nightmares


HEARTH SONG, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Before the hearth I dream of many things
Last Line: Singing of summer, chanting soft of june.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Fireplaces; Life; Nature; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Nightmares; Songs


HEAVEN'S GLORY SHONE WHERE HE WAS LAID, by EMILY JANE BRONTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis
Subject(s): Death - Children; Dreams; Death - Babies; Nightmares


HELICOPTERS, by NICOLE BLACKMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is a city of the dead and dying
Last Line: Shiver in your sleep and dream of helicopters
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Fate; Rest


HERO, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: A one - legged pigeon fighting a crust of bread
Last Line: A glimpse is a vision in time's womb
Subject(s): Dreams; Time


HERODIAS, SELECTION, by STEPHANE MALLARME    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ay, for myself, myself I flower forlorn!
Last Line: Its chill gems part at last.
Subject(s): Dreams; Virginity; Youth; Nightmares; Vestals


HEROIC LOVE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When our glowing dreams were dead
Last Line: "love can never be till then."
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Dreams; Heroism; Hope; Love - Loss Of; Nightmares; Heroes; Heroines; Optimism


HIS DREAM, by JOHN SUCKLING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On a still, silent night, scarce could I number
Last Line: And then---I awak'd.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


HIS DREAM, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I swayed upon the gaudy stern
Last Line: By the sweet name of death.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Dreams; Death


HIS DREAME, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamt, last night, thou didst transfuse
Last Line: That has not bread, and some to spare.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


HIS ROOM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm home again, my dear old room
Last Line: Their sweethearts' and talk love to you.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Absence; Dreams; Memory; Rooms; Separation; Isolation; Nightmares


HOLLOW DAYDREAM, by JEAN FOLLAIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: He who thinks of nothingness
Last Line: To hail a gloomy occupant
Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Shadows


HOMELESS MEN, by KATHERINE GUNN DAME    Poem Text                    
First Line: It is night / warm fires glow within
Last Line: Tramping an unfriendly street.
Subject(s): Dreams; Homeless; Life; Wandering & Wanderers; Nightmares; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


HOPE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hope, bending o'er me one time, snowed the flakes
Last Line: "what makes my little girl so sad to-night?"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dreams; Hope; Kisses; Nightmares; Optimism


HORIZON, by VICENTE HUIDOBRO    Poem Source                    
First Line: To pass the aging horizon
Last Line: Your were so beautiful %that I learned to sing
Subject(s): Dreams; Sky; Stars


HORIZON, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On an afternoon bright and wide as tedium
Last Line: And beyond, a joyful chant of white dawn
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Dreams


HORSE (2), by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What if it were our privilege
Last Line: Around, under the ground?
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dreams; Horses; Dead, The; Nightmares


HORSE IN THE CAGE, by STANLEY PLUMLY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Its face, as long as an arm, looks down & down.
Subject(s): Horses; Fathers; Dreams; Nightmares


HORTENSE, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once I thought each kiss a woman
Last Line: Our passing fondness ended.
Subject(s): Dreams; Kisses; Life; Love; Nightmares


HOT STAGNANT EVENING, by JULES LAFORGUE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One's feet are baking, one can feel the arteries throbbing in one's ankles
Last Line: Or a flower in the chintz of the bare prim parlor of an old maid in quimper - or a heron
Subject(s): Dreams; Heat


HOT WEATHER IMAGININGS, by T. R.    Poem Text                    
First Line: I feigned a fountain, mossy-lipped
Last Line: There never came a breeze!)
Subject(s): Dreams; Heat; Mirages; Nightmares


HOUSES OF DREAMS, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You took my empty dreams
Last Line: And nothing now to do.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


HOW I WAS ANIMATED, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was an animated character
Last Line: Set each %one free bing!
Subject(s): Dreams


HOW IT HAPPENS, by ALLAN BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The dream can be ordinary enough
Last Line: And here the familiar walking
Subject(s): Dreams


HOW THE SESTINA (YAWN) WORKS, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I opened this poem with a yawn
Last Line: I choose all of you for my poem personally
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares


HOW WE WENT OUT, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: She wore five skirts, he wore two hats
Last Line: A yellow angel, but disguised.
Subject(s): Disasters; Dreams; San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906); Smoke; Nightmares


HUGE WHITE BEAR, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: On top of a great white mountain
Last Line: Up there on the huge %white mountain
Subject(s): Dreams


HUMAN PAINT, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was out and about when I found my way
Last Line: Moment itself %back around to me
Subject(s): Dreams


HUNTING, HOPING, FINDING, by JAMES LARKIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The room is dark, the air is heavy
Last Line: And I'll go west with the rest.
Subject(s): Despair; Dreams; Hope; Love; Nightmares; Optimism


HUSH!, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: To music we listen
Last Line: Sung there.
Subject(s): Dreams; Music & Musicians; Nature; Truth; Youth; Nightmares


I AM A MEMBER OF THE MIND CIRCUS, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: My job is to sell a certain number of tickets
Last Line: Da vinci is coming! %the rest is history
Subject(s): Dreams


I AM LOOKING, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: For a house
Last Line: With you, still
Subject(s): Dreams


I AM ONLY DREAMING, DREAMING, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Golden hair and laughing eyes
Last Line: Through my study door.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


I AM THE MASTER BOX MAKER, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I hold out my hand
Last Line: Lining up in the line of sight
Subject(s): Dreams


I CANNOT ACCEPT, by SATO NORIKIYO    Poem Source                    
Last Line: A dream as a dream?
Subject(s): Dreams


I CANNOT COMMAND YOU, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To obey me in my dreams
Last Line: Do your will in my dreams
Subject(s): Dreams


I COULD HARDLY WAIT FOR THE SANDMAN, by OGDEN NASH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There are several differences between me and samuel taylor coleridge
Last Line: How I dreamt I went down the rabbit hole or through the looking glass, whichever you prefer
Subject(s): Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Dreams; Poetry And Poets


I DEFINE THE DARKNESS CORRECT: JOY'S THE AIM, by ELENI SIKELIANOS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A man was leading us through trees. We saw darkness in the
Last Line: Relations; ... Then, & I was young: ... Suddenly.
Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Youth; Nightmares; Bedtime


I DREAM, by PAUL ELDRIDGE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Life gallops by like a mad horse
Last Line: I dream of her dead eyes. ...
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares


I DREAM, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, I have dreams. I sometimes dream of life
Last Line: This is my dream of death.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Graves; Life; Love; Soul; Dead, The; Nightmares; Tombs; Tombstones


I DREAM AWAKE, by JOSE MARTI    Poem Source     Poem Explanation                
First Line: I dream with open eyes
Last Line: Calling to me!
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Dreams


I DREAM I AM EVE, by RACHEL BLUM    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Before the clutter %of body. %(after judy chicago)
Subject(s): Adam And Eve; Bible; Dreams


I DREAM I'M LEAVING, by MARGARET AHO    Poem Text                    
First Line: An island
Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Childhood; Nightmares


I DREAM OF LESLIE, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You entered my sleep
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


I DREAM OF LESLIE, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You entered my sleep
Last Line: That I was old and you a shade
Subject(s): Dreams


I DREAM OF ST. FRANCIS, by PETER ORLOVSKY    Poem Source                    
First Line: St francias came to me alive last night & tole me
Last Line: He ran all over my hand with his chizel & hammer, carving lines
Subject(s): Dreams; Francis Assisi, Saint (1181-1226); Saints


I DREAMED OF FOREST ALLEYS FAIR, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The quiet of my breast
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Dreams; Reality; Sleep


I DREAMT YOU WERE GUIDING ME, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: What the earth swallows!
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Dreams; Presence


I DUE SOGNI AD OCCHI APERTI: TWO DREAMS WITH EYES WIDE OPEN, by JESSE LEE KERCHEVAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The first dream with open eyes
Subject(s): Cruelty; Dreams; Motion Pictures; Rome, Italy; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Movies; Cinema; Songs


I FIGHT AGAINST YOU, by ANNA ELISABETH MATHIEU DE NOAILLES    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: I fight against you while I am awake
Last Line: It is on waking that I cease to be.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brancovan, Princess
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Memory; Sleep; Nightmares


I FOUND A WAY, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: To be awake all the time
Last Line: Easy, isn't it? %try it sometime
Subject(s): Dreams


I GET REVERSED, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Inside %is coming
Last Line: To reverse %one last time
Subject(s): Dreams


I GO DREAMING ALONG ROADS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: If only I could feel you %piercing my heart!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Love


I GO DREAMING ROADS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Who could feel you %nailed in his heart.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Lament; Love - Loss Of; Passion; Roads; Travel


I HAD A DREAM ABOUT YOU, by RICHARD SIKEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: All the cows were falling out of the sky and landing in the mud
Last Line: I kept waiting
Subject(s): Dreams; Love


I HAD FORGOTTEN, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I had forgotten she was dead, though once I had loved her
Last Line: Shall I never age?
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Love; Memory; Dead, The; Nightmares


I HARDLY DREAM OF ANYONE WHO IS STILL ALIVE, by PETER DAVISON    Poem Text                 Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Red auerbach fumed into my sleep last night
Subject(s): Dreams; Death; Nightmares; Dead, The


I HARDLY DREAM OF ANYONE WHO IS STILL ALIVE', by PETER DAVISON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Red auerbach fumed into my sleep last night
Last Line: Cannot erase the presence of the dead, %every wrinkled face of which is mine
Subject(s): Auerbach, Arnold ("red"); Berryman, John (1914-1972); Dreams; John Paul Ii, Pope; Poetry And Poets


I HEARD THEY CAUGHT THE BLUE DRAGON, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: So I rushed out to see it
Last Line: Short blue movements %and shining scales
Subject(s): Dreams


I HOLD A DREAM FOR YOU, by MERRILL ARTHUR YOTHERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I hold a dream for you, born one sweet spring
Last Line: Dreams and the souls that know them are as dust!
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


I PICKED A DREAM OUT OF MY HEAD, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To find in just one head
Subject(s): Dreams


I SLEPT, AND BACK TO MY EARLY DAYS, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Should revive what time destroys
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Dreams; Sleep; Youth


I UNCOIL MYSELF AND LIE STRAIGHT OUT, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: To enjoy this body and mind
Subject(s): Dreams; Imagination; Contentment


I WAITED ALL NIGHT, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Birds tormented me
Subject(s): Dreams; Longing


I WAKE TO THE TOUCH, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night, times out of dream
Last Line: In the wild of america!
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; United States


I WANT TO ARRANGE, by SANDOR CSOORI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I wanted to arrange everything
Last Line: And there still mountains, and from those mountains does the %wind still blow?
Subject(s): Dreams; Mountains


I WAS DESIGNING A HUMAN AIRPLANE, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like this %lying down
Last Line: The absorbable power %to fly
Subject(s): Dreams


I'D GIVE YOU MY SEAT IF I WERE HERE, by RON PADGETT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The shadows these flowers are making on each other
Last Line: And you know and you know.
Subject(s): Dreams; Funerals - At Sea; Graves; Nightmares; Burials At Sea; Tombs; Tombstones


I'VE SEEN SKIES, by GUY BENNETT    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Their shadow an echo
Subject(s): Dreams; Shadows; Sleep


IDLE, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I heard the gay spring coming
Last Line: A-dreaming idle dreams.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


IDYLL, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sweet hour of night, within thy solitude
Last Line: From o'er the waves of future heritages.
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Passion; Nightmares


IF, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twixt what thou art, and what thou wouldst be, let
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Dreams; Islands; Life; Love; Winter; Nightmares


IF I AM SITTING CLOSE TO YOU, by JESSIE DOWNS BELKNAP    Poem Text                    
First Line: The dreams I dream will all come true
Last Line: If I am sitting close to you.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


IF I NEVER THINK, by J. MACEKURA    Poem Source                    
First Line: There are termitic pollsters
Last Line: Except: I must dream and think
Subject(s): Dreams; Reason


IF ONLY THE DREAMS ABIDE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If the things of earth must pass
Last Line: If only the dreams abide.
Subject(s): Change; Dreams; Grief; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness


IF THEY HUNTED WHILE WE SLEEP, by TINA KELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: If we died only at night
Last Line: Spreading around the brightening room
Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Sleep


ILIA'S DREAM, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "then startled from her sleep, she spoke"
Last Line: "until my sleep departed -- and, oh! My heart was sore"
Subject(s): Dreams;sisters;sleep;tears; Nightmares


ILLUMINATION, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night I dreamed of you. I thought you came
Last Line: "we both should cry, ""I dreamed a dream last night!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Dreams; Happiness; Sleep; Nightmares; Joy; Delight


ILLUSION, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where the golden corn is bending
Last Line: That my dream was false and vain!
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Dreams; Hallucinations And Illusions; Snow; Soul; Nightmares


IMAGES, by RAFAEL ESTRADA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Her soul was so beautiful and delicate that two angels were
Last Line: I dreamt I slept embracing an angel. I awoke to find an exotic %feather in my bed
Subject(s): Angels; Dreams


IMAGES OF MY DREAMS, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: The wooded hill overshades the river's placid brim and in its tranquil
Last Line: Cloud-wrack grim. . . . And still more images will come, alas, to die!
Subject(s): Dreams; Sailing & Sailors; Nightmares; Seamen; Sails


IMAGES OF OUR DREAMS, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: The wooded hill slopes down even unto the
Last Line: Ah for our dreams that rise and perish evermore!
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Eyes; Dead, The; Nightmares


IMAGINATION, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rich raptures, you say, our dreams assume
Last Line: "and fondly believes that his thoughts are ""vast""!"
Subject(s): Dreams; Imagination; Reason; Thought; Nightmares; Fancy; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Thinking


IMAGINATIVE MAN, by RAFAEL ESTRADA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Perhaps,' he told me, 'I imagine things because I don't dream'
Last Line: He closed his eyes, and I knew he was already in full-dream-production mode
Subject(s): Dreams; Imagination; Motion Pictures


IMITATIONS OF SHAKESPEARE: PROGNE'S DREAM, by JOHN ARMSTRONG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Last night I dreamt
Last Line: And with the struggling waked.
Subject(s): Dramatists; Dreams; Mythology - Greek; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Nightmares; Dramatists


IMPLORA PACE, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The clouds that stoop from yonder sky
Last Line: But freedom for our task divine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Dreams; Freedom; Love; Nightmares; Liberty


IN A COUNTRY OF WAREHOUSES, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
First Line: I dreamed %I was a stranger
Last Line: These %made them %furious
Subject(s): Dreams; San Francisco; Strangers; Travel


IN A DREAM, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A vacuum cleaner held over my head
Last Line: With my satellite heart, brain, bones and blood
Subject(s): Dreams; Vacuum Cleaners; Death; Nightmares; Dead, The


IN A DREAM I RETURNED TO THE IMMORTAL CITY, by YANG WAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The absence of a plaintive dream allowed for a sweet one
Last Line: I only resent the cold grief that disturbs my inkbrush
Subject(s): Dreams


IN ANDELYS: HAVE I LEISURE TO DEVOTE MYSELF TO POESY?: 16, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: To see and know absorbs the whole of life's domain. Have I leisure
Last Line: To poesy? The wish to see and know will have laid waste my life.
Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Nightmares


IN ANDELYS: ON THE BANK OF THE SEINE: 5, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: A heaven confused pours forth these feeble twilight glows. Fairer
Last Line: River slow that lulls great, golden nenuphars.
Subject(s): Dreams; Heaven; Love; Seine (river), France; Nightmares; Paradise


IN ANDELYS: TO THE MOST BEAUTIFUL LIGHT: 10, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fair evening longed for birth, the firmament was pure. Life and the
Last Line: Wandered a fine, clear moon, white as a dreaming soul.
Subject(s): Dreams; Heaven; Life; Nightmares; Paradise


IN ANOTHER LIFE, by MIRANDA PEARSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I would have been the mother of twins
Last Line: And nothing %is what I said I wanted
Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Reproduction


IN AUTUMN TONES, by MARGARET PERKINS BRIGGS    Poem Text                    
First Line: They have not seen beyond their garden wall
Last Line: Strange winds begrudge the gleaner's ancient share.
Subject(s): Dreams; Evening; Gardens & Gardening; Ghosts; Harvest; Supernatural; Nightmares; Sunset; Twilight


IN CHRISTMAS LAND, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the beams and gleams came the christmas dreams
Last Line: To the homes and hearts of you!
Subject(s): Children;christmas;dreams;parades;soldiers; "childhood;nativity, The;nightmares;


IN COMMON, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was just standing around when the desire came over me
Last Line: Able residues, what now %in what remains?
Subject(s): Dreams


IN DREAMLAND, by VIRGINIA ABEL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Some fine sunny day
Last Line: On a bright shooting star.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


IN DREAMS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My love, my love, when falls the summer rain
Last Line: And bind with thee the ripe and shining sheaves.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Summer; Nightmares


IN DREAMS, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In dreams the exile cometh home
Last Line: In dreams alone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Dreams; Exiles; Nightmares


IN DREAMS HE SAW HIMSELF, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: His own heart as his pillow
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Absence; Dreams; Love


IN DREAMS THE HEART IS WAKING, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: In dreams, dreams to know
Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic
Subject(s): Dreams


IN FRANCE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The silence of maternal hills
Last Line: And there I wander as I will.
Subject(s): Dreams; France; Nightmares


IN ITALY, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear lillian, all I wished is won!
Last Line: Lies in the heart which mine hath won!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Dreams; Italy; Love; Memory; Nightmares; Italians


IN MY DREAM - MY GRANDMOTHER, by MAUREEN OWEN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Gerunds!' - she is screaming
Subject(s): Dreams; Grandparents


IN MY DREAMS, by ANNIE ELIZABETH LOOMIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: In that far off, mysterious realm which we call dreamland
Last Line: Oh, blessed night, when I can sleep -- and dream -- and see!
Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Life; Sleep; Nightmares


IN MY HAMMOCK, by LAURA VANDIVIER    Poem Text                    
First Line: After the busy day has ended
Last Line: I'm dreaming dreams.
Subject(s): Dreams; Hammocks; Nightmares


IN MY VINEYARD, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At last the dream that clad the field
Last Line: A fresher light of glory!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Dreams; Soul; Vines And Vineyards; Nightmares


IN MY WINDOW-SEAT, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am sitting in my window-seat
Last Line: And the world is very still.
Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Rest; Shadows; Silence; Sleep; Nightmares; Bedtime


IN NEW YORK: 3. WEARINESS, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I sometimes think thou art my secret love
Last Line: Then give, beseech thee, give me sleep.
Subject(s): Dreams; Kisses; Life; Love; New York City; Nightmares; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


IN SLEEP, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not drowsihood and dreams and mere idless
Last Line: Rises a greatheart where a slave lay down.
Subject(s): Dreams; God; Past; Sleep; Soul; Nightmares


IN SLUMBERLAND, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where is the road to slumberland?
Last Line: While you are king in slumberland.
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares


IN THE ATTIC OF MY DREAMS, by MARGE PIERCY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I imagine an attic
Last Line: Into my ears their stories and songs
Subject(s): Attics; Dreams; Ancestors & Ancestry


IN THE DARK, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the dark I lie and think
Last Line: When these eyes no longer see.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nature; Nightmares


IN THE DARK WOOD, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm dreaming, and as dusk falls
Last Line: Me in that frighteningly %dark wood
Subject(s): Dreams; Parents


IN THE GOD'S DREAMS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Am I a character in the dreams
Last Line: Stop infesting my nights with %his nonsense
Subject(s): Dreams


IN THE GRASS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am one with waving things
Last Line: I am one with waving things.
Subject(s): Dreams; Grass; Snow; Soul; Nightmares


IN THE NEW WORLD, by DAVID KELLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: In that dream a boy my age rose from sleep
Last Line: Oh spirits of anger, pride, take me back %into the distant tribes; dream me again
Subject(s): Books; Dreams; Native Americans; Navajo Indians; Poetry And Poets


IN THE NURSERY, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where do you go, bob, when you're fast asleep?
Last Line: Perhaps -- we'll see.'
Subject(s): Dreams; Heaven; Night; Orchards; Nightmares; Paradise; Bedtime


IN THE PARK, by DAVE REDDALL    Poem Source                    
First Line: He settled into the park bench and soon fell asleep, made drowsy by
Last Line: The thin sunshine and chill autumn air
Subject(s): Dreams


IN THIS DREAM I DO NOT EXIST, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In this dream I do not exist. This I know since it is my dream
Last Line: I say this in the best of health and in expectation of a long life
Subject(s): Dreams


IN TIME OF FAMINE, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She has no heart,' they said, and turned away
Last Line: "to hear her brave sad laughter in the air."
Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Famine; Life; Dead, The; Nightmares


IN TUSCANY: DREAM-LAND, by CORA RANDALL FABBRI    Poem Text                    
First Line: Once in a dream
Last Line: Once in a dream.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


IN VAST WOODS, BLINKING, by FRIEDERIKE MAYROCKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Out of resinous dreams, he said, you wrap sand paintings
Last Line: And talked till it got light
Subject(s): Dreams; Reality


IN WHITE CITY, by JAMES SCHUYLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My thoughts turn south
Variant Title(s): A White City
Subject(s): Dreams; Snow; Nightmares


IN WHITE CITY, by JAMES SCHUYLER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My thoughts turn south
Last Line: And find it has snowed
Variant Title(s): A White Cit
Subject(s): Dreams; Snow


INAPPROPRIATE DREAMS, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


INCOMPLETENESS, by DORIS ELFRIDA ESTCOURT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Through the clean silence of the wakening / day
Last Line: We glimpse it, but it melts to mist again.
Subject(s): Dreams; Shadows; Nightmares


INSCRIPTION, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is inscribed in the endless book
Last Line: So is it written in the book so inscribed
Subject(s): Dreams


INSIDE EYES, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I am fast asleep at night
Last Line: That waking up must be a dream!
Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Sleep; Childhood; Nightmares


INSTRUMENTAL OPENING, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Promise me, you were saying
Last Line: Waiting for the single %sound to come
Subject(s): Dreams


INTERIM: 9, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We are poor spendthrifts, scattering gold youth
Last Line: With terrible triumph over our hope and dream.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs.
Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Old Age; Nightmares


INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS, by VAHAKN DAVTIAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: If you dream of flying through the air
Last Line: Think of air, breathe it in. Imagine flowers %and seas and plunge in
Subject(s): Dreams


INTO THE SHADOW, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Back again into the shadow-after the sun!
Last Line: But the gradual gloom grows less as god's daylight breaks afar.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Shadows; Nightmares; Bedtime


INTRUDER, by JOAN OLIVER    Poem Source                    
First Line: You enter my dream with a torch
Last Line: In whirlwinds
Subject(s): Dreams; Shadows; Sleep


INTRUSION, by DOROTHEA GOODTIME    Poem Text                    
First Line: Caught in the web of a leafless tree
Last Line: I sought seclusion once again.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


INVISIBLE TREE, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Out walking with my teacher, a tree
Last Line: His showing. Slightly smiling. Presence of tree
Subject(s): Dreams


INVOCATION, by HORACE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Spirits! Intelligences! Passions! Dreams!
Last Line: Who would not give his life for such a death?
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Life; Muses; Praise; Dead, The; Nightmares


IRELAND - 1915, by BRUCE PORTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I could not sleep the night
Last Line: You are grown old with dreaming.
Subject(s): Dreams; Ireland; Nightmares; Irish


IRRADIATIONS: 1, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The spattering of the rain upon pale terraces
Last Line: Towards the sunset beyond the broken doors of to-day.
Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Rain; Roses; Nightmares


IS IT DONE?, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is done! In the fire's fitful flashes
Last Line: Will dream they are playing their parts.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Dreams; Fire; Happiness; Hearts; Hope; Kisses; Pain; Nightmares; Joy; Delight; Optimism; Suffering; Misery


IS LIFE JUST A DREAM, by EMERSON KROPF    Poem Text                    
First Line: I wonder if life is a dream!
Last Line: I wonder if life is a dream!
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


ISLA MUJERES, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The shoal we saw from the boat was fish;
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Dreams; Isla Mujeres, Mexico; Anglers; Nightmares


ISOBEL'S CHILD, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To rest the weary nurse has gone
Last Line: In his broad, loving will.
Subject(s): Death - Children; Dreams; Women; Heaven; Mothers; Longing; Death - Babies; Nightmares; Paradise


ISOLATE, by PORTIA MARTIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I looked out over the ocean
Last Line: And watched it disappear.
Subject(s): Dreams; Letters; Sea; Nightmares; Ocean


IT SOUNDS IT, by ANNE WALDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You & I out of all dreaming
Last Line: This scheme
Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Sleep; Thought; Nightmares; Thinking


IT WAS A DREAM, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In which my greater self
Last Line: This. This. This.
Subject(s): Dreams; Self; Nightmares


IT'S COLD INSIDE, by FRIEDERIKE ROTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nothing works, no matter how you try
Last Line: When the crickets begin to wake, %how beautifully they sing
Subject(s): Cold; Dreams


IT'S GIVEN TO ME, by FLORENCE WEINBERGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: In my dream they are no longer
Last Line: Let them work it out %between them
Subject(s): Dreams


JESUS CHRIST IS IN THE ROOM, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: And the top demon too
Last Line: Happy to be here is all %I can say to him
Subject(s): Dreams


JEWELS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Twice in one hour I've seen this lovely night
Last Line: Still call on night to see my wasted time.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Dreams; Poetry & Poets; Nightmares


JOHN-JOHN, by THOMAS MACDONAGH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamt last night of you, john-john
Last Line: And that's my prayer.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macdonough, Thomas
Subject(s): Absence; Dreams; Love - Marital; Separation; Isolation; Nightmares; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love


JOURNEYING, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lying on my back, this
Last Line: And one by one they disappear
Subject(s): Dreams


JOURNEYS, by AGNES MACCARTHY HICKEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Not the speediest of coaches
Last Line: And they not know!
Subject(s): Dreams; Labor & Laborers; Sewing; Travel; Nightmares; Work; Workers; Journeys; Trips


JOURNEYS OF THE DEAD, by TOM SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: In a graveyard in middlebury
Last Line: Man, remoter than uranus %than the stars
Subject(s): Dreams; Night


JOY OF FLIGHT, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Think of this
Last Line: In memory of your dream
Subject(s): Flight; Dreams; Survival


JUDGING BY APPEARANCES, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: For the umpteenth time I was having this dream
Last Line: Not by appearance but %force of glowing
Subject(s): Dreams


JUMP SHIFT, by NANCE VAN WINCKEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The diplomat I'm supposed to be translating
Last Line: That's nothing. Nothing! I'ts all made up
Subject(s): Dreams; Translating And Interpreting


KAKITSUBATA, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come to the place of eight bridges
Last Line: The song of sparrows will always tell you otherwise
Subject(s): Concentration Camps; Heart Mountain Relocation Center Wyoming; Japanese Americans - Internment; Wyoming; Dreams


KARMA, by WILLIAM CANTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the heart of the white summer mist lay
Last Line: "lo! The lamb shall be born as a wolf, with a wolf's heart, but thou as a man!"
Subject(s): Dreams


KEY, by CZESLAW MILOSZ    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We were guests in the house of a multimillionaire and we were
Last Line: What you will dig out, but that masochistic operation will bring %you relief
Subject(s): Dreams; Guests; Parties


KING ARTHUR, OR THE BRITISH WORTHY: EPILOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I've had today a dozen billet-doux
Last Line: Shall be my favourite gallant to-day.
Subject(s): Dreams; Faith; Marriage; Opera; Nightmares; Belief; Creed; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


KING BORBORIGMI, by CONRAD AIKEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You say you heard king borborigmi laugh?
Last Line: But has bad dreams. I fear he has bad dreams
Subject(s): Dreams


KING HAROLD HARFAGAR, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The great king harold harfagar
Last Line: With loving kisses replying.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Dreams; Kisses; Love; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Nightmares


KNOT, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was a knot
Last Line: Once a knot, there's only %this side
Subject(s): Dreams


KRISTIN'S DREAM IN NOVEMBER, by BERNADETTE MAYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I went thru the turnstyle to the party
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


KUBLA KHAN, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In xanadu did kubla khan / a stately pleasure dome decree
Last Line: And drunk the milk of paradise.
Variant Title(s): Romance;the Sacred River
Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Dreams; Heaven; Kubla Khan (1214-1294); Mysticism; Nightmares; Paradise


LADY ALDA'S DREAM, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In paris sits the lady that shall be sir roland's bride
Last Line: For sir roland has been slaughtered in the chase of roncesval
Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Romance


LADY MARJORY, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lady marjory lay on her bed
Last Line: Were as cold as ever her feet had been!
Subject(s): Women – Old Age; Dreams; Love – Loss Of


LADY MONTREVOR (SEE MATURIN'S 'WILD IRISH BOY'), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I do not look for love that is a dream
Last Line: No man shall mock me after this my day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Love; Seasons; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness


LAND O' DREAMS, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's over the mountains, a million miles, it's
Last Line: Dreams come true.
Subject(s): Dreams; Travel; Nightmares; Journeys; Trips


LAND OF ALVARGONZALEZ: THE DREAM, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And alvargonzalez, %like jacob, sees a ladder
Last Line: Glitters an iron hatchet
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Fire


LANGUAGE WITH ONE WORD: 7. SLEEPING, by KRISTY NIELSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is a good sound that she makes, the growling off-key wail that seems to
Last Line: Finally drifting to sleep. 'I am alone again.'
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep


LARGESSE, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Dreams; Rain; Grief; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness


LAST CHILD, by TOM SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: One child stood lame, says the old story
Last Line: The rat crossed under old noah's bow
Subject(s): Dreams; Night


LAST EVE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Last eve as I leaned from my lattice, looked out / at the night
Last Line: Let go! Get back to your graves, you have fought and have failed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Dreams; Hope; Nightmares; Optimism


LAST NIGHT AT MIDNIGHT, by WEI CHUANG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: And when I woke up and knew it was a dream, %the pain was more than I could bear
Subject(s): Dreams


LAST NIGHT I DREAMED OF CHICKENS, by JACK PRELUTSKY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Dreams; Chickens; Nightmares


LAST WORDS MY MOTHER TOLD ME, by LEAH MAINES    Poem Source                    
First Line: The last words my mother told me were not I love you
Last Line: In that special place of closed eyes again
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Mothers


LATE NIGHT DREAM MOVIES; TO CHRISTOPHER TOLL, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The war beneath the seas / is quiet
Last Line: That's an honest word.
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares


LATE OCTOBER, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Midnight. The cats under the open window
Last Line: On end, afraid of what I might do next.
Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dreams; October; Violence; Nightmares


LATER LIFE: A DOUBLE SONNET OF SONNETS, 12, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A dream there is wherein we are fain to scream
Last Line: On feet untired, and still on feet tho' tired.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Dreams


LATER LIFE: A DOUBLE SONNET OF SONNETS, 27, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have dreamed of death: -- what will it be to die
Last Line: May miss the goal at last, may miss a crown.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Dreams; Death


LAUGHTER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Within the coziest corner of my
Last Line: His hair a raveled nimbus of gray gold.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dreams; Laughter; Time; Nightmares


LEARNING THE AUTO, by WALT MASON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm learning the automobile; as, trembling, I
Last Line: "oats!"
Subject(s): Automobile Drivers; Dreams; Nightmares


LEAVES, SHADOWS, AND DREAMS, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have seen all things pass and all men go
Last Line: Grey shadows in the grass.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Gray (color); Green (color); Leaves; Shadows; Dead, The; Nightmares; Grey (color)


LEFT IN LIFE: 2, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It is a dream. What then? Are dreams untrue?
Last Line: Pleased with the folly of thy straining hands.
Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Love - Complaints; Passion; Solitude; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness


LES ETOILES, by MILDRED POTTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Last night / I reached out the window
Last Line: I dreamed of you!
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


LESSON, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The first time that I dreamed, we were in flight
Last Line: What anyone is given, if they want
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Subject(s): Dreams


LET ME GO DOWN TO DUST, by LEW SARETT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let me go down to dust and dreams
Last Line: Gives its worn body back to earth again.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Dust; Night; Dead, The; Nightmares; Bedtime


LET ME NOT LOSES MY DREAM, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let me not lose my dream, e'en though I scan the veil with eyes unseeing ...
Last Line: Hold me, and guard, lest anguish tear my dreams away!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


LET ME NOT MAR THAT PERFECT DREAM, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: At home — in paradise
Subject(s): Dreams


LET THEM GO, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let the dream go. Are there not other dreams
Last Line: Let the love die!
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Love; Night; Vision; Dead, The; Nightmares; Bedtime


LET'S DREAM, by MARCELLA DARLING MILBURN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Let's dream today
Last Line: And wild geese call.
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares


LETTER FROM AN INSTITUTION, by MICHAEL RYAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The ward beds float like ghost ships
Subject(s): Psychiatric Hospitals; Dreams; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums; Nightmares


LETTER TO THE FRONT: 5, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Much later, I lie in a white seaport night
Subject(s): Dreams; Peace; Nightmares


LEUDEMANN'S-ON-THE-RIVER, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Toward even when the day leans down
Last Line: To leudemann's-on-the-river.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): August; Dreams; Life; Night; Summer; Nightmares; Bedtime


LIBERTAD! IGUALDAD! FRATERNIDAD, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You sullen pig of a man
Last Line: Dreams are not a bad thing.
Subject(s): Dreams; Capitalism


LIFE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "a busy dream, forgotten ere it fades"
Last Line: So we in iron selfishness stand strong
Subject(s): Dreams;life;old Age;time; Nightmares


LIGHT BLUE, by FRANK STANFORD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The white clothes on the line put the man to sleep.
Subject(s): Dreams; Relationships; Nightmares


LIGHTNING OF THE ABYSS, by JULES LAFORGUE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I was on a tower in the midst of the stars
Last Line: Ah, to become nothing again, irrevocably spent!
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


LIGHTS OF SIENA AS SEEN FROM FLORENCE IN A DREAM, by NICHOLAS CHRISTOPHER    Poem Source                    
First Line: This is the door by which you will leave me forever
Last Line: That even then were leading you away from me
Subject(s): Dreams


LIKE ROUSSEAU, by AMIRI BARAKA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She stands beside me, stands away,
Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


LILAC BLOOMS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sweet was the kiss of the singing breeze
Last Line: Content to dream.
Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Lilacs; Poetry & Poets; Nightmares


LILIES IN THEIR ARMS, by HAZEL S. MARSHALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: There will be brides in june-time; they will go
Last Line: Remember brides are tender, fragile things.
Subject(s): Brides; Dreams; Flowers; June; Lilies; Nightmares


LIMITED COMMUNICATION, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: An angel came to me
Last Line: Therefore this communication %ends here
Subject(s): Dreams


LIMITLESS OUT OF THE DUSK, by BROTHER CLEMENT    Poem Text                    
First Line: There are lightly moving rivers
Last Line: Of the world come home.
Subject(s): Dreams; Dusk; Rivers; Nightmares


LINES; TO ONE WHO WISHED TO READ A POEM I HAD WRITTEN, by ANNE CHARLOTTE LYNCH BOTTA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nay, read it not, thou wouldst not know
Last Line: Thy would not speak of me.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Dreams; Hearts; Nightmares


LITTLE BEAST, by RICHARD SIKEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: He had green eyes
Last Line: I am lying very still, wanting him to have his bad dreams %and wake up screaming
Subject(s): Dreams


LITTLE GIRL AS EARTHQUAKE LIT BY STARS, by JOHN REINHARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: She is embarrassed by the steadiness
Last Line: You go, no matter how high you climb
Subject(s): Dreams; Faith; Girls; Imagination; Stars


LITTLE GIRLY-GIRL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Little girly-girl, of you
Last Line: "calling, ""little girly-girl!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Girls; Love; Memory; Nightmares


LITTLE JOHNTS'S CHRIS'MUS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We got it up a-purpose, jes' fer little johnts, you know
Last Line: "a-cryin' 'cause I watched you all, an' knowed it all the time!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Christmas; Dreams; Fairy Tales; Nativity, The; Nightmares


LITTLE TOWN, by HAROLD H. KENISTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I hope some day to settle down
Last Line: When my time comes to settle down.
Subject(s): Dreams; Rivers; Towns; Nightmares


LIVE IT THROUGH, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamt a huge liner stood in the desert, its crew leaning
Last Line: Live it through
Subject(s): Deserts; Dreams; Ships & Shipping; Nightmares


LIVING DAY BY DAY, by LORNA CROZIER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have no children and he has five
Last Line: Her dream hair flying
Subject(s): Dreams; Marriage; Mothers


LOESS HILLS, by JEANNE EMMONS    Poem Source                    
First Line: This hill I stand on is an egg of land
Last Line: When the eye is always a stranger, longing for a lost land
Subject(s): Dreams; Mountains; Nature


LOGIC OF TWO KINDS, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: There are two kinds of people
Last Line: So I decided to become %one who hits
Subject(s): Dreams


LONGING, by HELEN KNIGHT GOODING    Poem Text                    
First Line: A crescent moon, the morning star, and sunrise in the sky
Last Line: —helen knight gooding, rapid city
Subject(s): Absence; Dreams; Separation; Isolation; Nightmares


LONGING, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: At last the sunset and the quietness
Last Line: And then, together, home.
Subject(s): Dreams; Longing; Love; Peace; Tears; Nightmares


LOOMING FLOCK, by JUDY GALBRAITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was dreaming my father
Last Line: A whole flock hanging behind and %coming even closer
Subject(s): Dreams; Fathers; Goats


LORD IS MY SHEPHERD I SHALL NOT WANT, by JOYCE CAROL OATES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In august, in upstate new york
Last Line: The deepest truth of your tinsel heart
Subject(s): Dreams


LOST BABIES, by ROSA MULHOLLAND    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The lake's a lake of purple wine
Last Line: "until they come, bide close to me!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Gilbert, Lady
Subject(s): Babies; Dreams; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Infants; Nightmares; Virgin Mary


LOST DREAMS, by CHARLES FRANKLIN HARRISON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I notice, as I pass them on the street
Last Line: Of people anywhere: their dreams are dead.
Subject(s): Despair; Dreams; Nightmares


LOVE IN DREAMS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I lie on my pallet bed
Last Line: And made again in a dream.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


LOVE IN JAPAN, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The semi is silent
Last Line: Eater of dreams!
Subject(s): Dreams; Japan; Love; Tears; Nightmares; Japanese


LOVE IN OLD MEXICO, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamed of ships sailing across the sun
Last Line: And thro' them all there gleamed the face of you.
Subject(s): Dreams; Mexico; Ships & Shipping; Nightmares


LOVE IN THE DAWN, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dawn, with hallowed flame, seemed to sing your name
Last Line: Dawn again, dawn again, dawn again—with you!
Subject(s): Dreams; Happiness; Love; Sympathy; Togetherness; Nightmares; Joy; Delight; Empathy


LOVE'S ADVENT, by NEWMAN HOWARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Passing the world's loud workshop, lo, within
Last Line: "the world from woe!"" -- alas, how vain the dream!"
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Love; Time; Dead, The; Nightmares


LOVE'S BURIAL, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let us clear a little space
Last Line: We will walk a separate way.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Funerals; Love; Tears; Dead, The; Nightmares; Burials


LOVE'S HUMILITIES, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To think of thee, to think of thee!
Last Line: O sweet, suffice it thee!
Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Hearts; Love; Nightmares


LOVE'S MESSAGE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Far out in love's dreamland a bird doth sing
Last Line: With the gentle touch of an angel's wing.
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Passion; Nightmares


LOVE'S NOCTURN, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Master of the murmuring courts
Last Line: In her name implor'd, o hear!
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Nightmares


LOVE-JOY, LOVE-SORROW, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A thousand lilies, a thousand pinks
Last Line: Like clouds in the wind it vanisheth.
Subject(s): Dreams; Happiness; Life; Love; Nightmares; Joy; Delight


LOVER'S TEST, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I sat today beneath the pine
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Dreams; Farewell; Life; Love; Soul


LULL, by PAVLO TYCHYNA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I sleep - I stir. I fulfill a will. Fill
Last Line: With his uncomprehending eyes, and then unconsciously smelled %a flower, similar to a thistle
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep


LULLABY, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sleep, brown-eyed, sleep
Last Line: The dew, only the dew.
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares


LULLABY TO A DREAM, by JAMES (NAKISAKI) CHRISTOPHER    Poem Source                    
First Line: As you go dreaming, save a dream for me
Subject(s): Dreams


LUNAR BAEDEKER, by MINA LOY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A silver lucifer
Last Line: Waxes and wanes
Alternate Author Name(s): Cravan, Arthur, Mrs.; Lowy, Mina Gertrude; Haweis, Stephen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Dreams; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Nightmares; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin


LUNAR RAINBOW, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The moon spreads a rainbow fan
Last Line: The star holding a mirror to her eyes?
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


LYCANTHROPY REVISITED, by DONALD HALL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When it is truly the moon that he sees
Subject(s): Werewolves; Dreams; Nightmares


LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 42, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Many visions of times long vanish'd
Last Line: Stand fix'd, the image of woe.
Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Silence; Nightmares


LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 46, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The child of a king in dream have I seen
Last Line: "to thy loving caresses replying."
Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Love; Childhood; Nightmares


LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 57, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamt once more the vision of yore
Last Line: But the biting was rather too spiteful!
Subject(s): Dreams; Heaven; Kisses; Love - Complaints; Nightmares; Paradise


LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 59, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My carriage is traversing slowly
Last Line: They titter and haste swiftly by.
Subject(s): Dreams; Magic; Nightmares


LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 60, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In vision I lately was weeping
Last Line: Continued to flow as before.
Subject(s): Dreams; Graves; Love; Tears; Nightmares; Tombs; Tombstones


LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 65, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The dream-god brought me to a castle vast
Last Line: Blended with sternness, I awoke from sleep.
Subject(s): Castles; Dreams; Fantasy; Grief; Love; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness


LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 69, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Night lay upon mine eyelids
Last Line: And lo! -- from sleep I woke.
Subject(s): Dreams; Eyes; Graves; Hair; Night; Nightmares; Tombs; Tombstones; Bedtime


LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 70, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The numbers old and evil
Last Line: And in it placed my love.
Subject(s): Coffins; Dreams; Grief; Love; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness


LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 9, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On song's exulting pinion
Last Line: Of blissful visions we'll dream.
Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Love; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Songs


MAGGIORE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Friend, rest awhile upon thy glistening oars
Last Line: And let us drift and dream!
Subject(s): Dreams; Italy; Nightmares; Italians


MAKER OF DREAMS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Is his own master - he doesn't
Last Line: The authorities to complain
Subject(s): Dreams


MAKING DREAMS OF REALITY, by ROBERT PARHAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Freud told you the easy way: go to sleep
Last Line: But not even your eyes will stay closed
Subject(s): Dreams; Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939); Reality


MARCH DAYS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The world to-day is a nun in gray
Last Line: And april airs be here!
Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Lakes; March (month); Spring; Nightmares; World; Pools; Ponds


MARIANNE'S DREAM, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A pale dream came to a lady fair
Last Line: As any waking eyes can view.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


MARK TWAIN: A PIPE DREAM, by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Well I recall how first I met
Last Line: Then heaven will be heaven indeed.
Subject(s): Dreams; Smoking; Twain, Mark (samuel Langhorne Clemens); Nightmares; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes


MARTINIQUE, by CORNELIA OTIS SKINNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Great cone-shaped mountains rising from a stream
Last Line: Trailed on the wind the spice of carib seas?
Subject(s): Dreams; Islands; Nightmares


MARY BURKE, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Och! Shure 'tis well I mind the day
Last Line: Mary burke—mary burke!
Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Dreams; Heaven; Love; Death - Babies; Nightmares; Paradise


MASKS, by TOM SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: We have seen medusa's face
Last Line: We bless the bagatelle
Subject(s): Dreams; Night


MAURINE: PART 3, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One golden twelfth part of a checkered year
Last Line: That only he who watched with sorrow knows.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Dreams; Kisses; Lakes; Love; Rowing; Women; Nightmares; Pools; Ponds


MAURINE: PART 6, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a week of bustle and of hurry
Last Line: Should yield me golden fruit for all my toil.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Love; Soul; Women; Dead, The; Nightmares


MAY, by RACHEL HADAS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The latest dream: a lofty hotel lobby
Last Line: I lean against the coolness of the stone
Subject(s): Dreams; Merrill, James (1926-1995); Absence


MEANINGLESS CHILI, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Is what they called this thing
Last Line: He too has slipped from view
Subject(s): Dreams


MEET ME IN THE SKY, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: This flying says it for me
Last Line: Turn your attention to the sky %that lets tell
Subject(s): Dreams


MEMORIALS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beside the shining river's brim
Last Line: The well-sweep and the ruined wall.
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Memory; Past; Rivers; Nightmares


MEMORY AND HOPE, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Back-looking memory
Last Line: To 'reach the things before.'
Subject(s): Memory; Hope; Dreams; Optimism; Nightmares


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


METAPHYSIC, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Dearie I! When I up and follows
Last Line: And many a turnip-load!
Subject(s): Dreams; Roads; Wind; Nightmares; Paths; Trails


METEMPSYCHOSIS OF THE PINE, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As when the haze of some wan moonlight makes
Last Line: The spirit of the pine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Memory; Moon; Nature; Nightmares


MIDLIGHT, by CESAR VALLEJO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I've dreamt an elopement. And I've dreamt
Subject(s): Dreams; Elopements; Mothers; Nightmares


MIDLIGHT, by CESAR VALLEJO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I've dreamt an elopement. And I've dreamt
Last Line: And along the length of a collar that chokes!
Subject(s): Dreams; Elopements; Mothers


MIDNIGHT AT THE MILL, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once an angel came and said
Last Line: "and I would lovely be!"
Subject(s): Angels; Dreams; Murder; Nightmares


MIDSUMMER'S NIGHT, by MIRIAM OTT MUNSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The calm moon lays her fingers chaste and cool
Last Line: Beneath the soft rays of the moon's still light.
Subject(s): Dreams; Moon; Night; Sleep; Summer; Nightmares; Bedtime


MIGHTY THINGS, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Iron, steel, and granite rock are
Last Line: And god's dream made the earth and us and every rolling star.
Subject(s): Dreams; January; Nightmares


MILLENNIAL NAME, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Year 2000. Until now
Last Line: But being %brand new
Subject(s): Dreams


MILTON'S SPIRIT, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamed that milton's spirit rose, and took
Last Line: Prisons and citadels.
Subject(s): Dreams; Milton, John (1608-1674); Nightmares


MIND FLYING AFAR, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What a moment of strange dreaming! Quickly
Subject(s): Landor, Walter Savage (1775-1864); Dreams; Nightmares


MINIVER CHEEVY, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Miniver cheevy, child of scorn / grew lean while he assailed the seasons
Last Line: And kept on drinking.
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Dreams; Drinks & Drinking; Men; Nostalgia; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Nightmares; Wine


MINUTES, by JERRY BROOKS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Swiftly - how swiftly they pass!
Last Line: Tis gone, on silvery wing!
Subject(s): Dreams; Time; Nightmares


MIR TRAUMTE WIEDER DER ALTE TRAUM, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The old dream comes again to me
Last Line: Superfluous was the bite.
Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Love; Nightmares


MIRACLES, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamt I saw a huge grey boat in silence streaming
Last Line: And when I woke I wondered where on earth I'd been.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


MIRAGES, by ARLEN OBERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Forests may glow like a wave of fire
Last Line: Until they come true.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


MISS KILMANSEGG AND HER PRECIOUS LEG: HER DREAM, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Miss kilmansegg took off her leg
Last Line: She was turn'd to a golden idol?
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


MISSY 1966-1971, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I want to be worthy of this waking dream
Last Line: Bound.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Dreams; Loss; Memory; Nightmares


MOMENTS THAT COME, by JOANNE KYGER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am dancing around the plaza with a policeman
Last Line: Who passes through softly %on her journey
Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs.
Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Dreams; Fantasy; Grief; Loss; Sin


MONICA PEVERIL TURNBULL, by NEWMAN HOWARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once more wild march, her mantle shaken
Last Line: "for new buds' swelling."
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; March (month); Soul; Tears; Dead, The; Nightmares


MONOTROPA, by ROSE TERRY COOKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Loves serene, uncarnate graces!
Last Line: Cease thyself, vain rhythmic sound!
Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Love; Soul; Nightmares


MONSTER, by ELIZABETH WILLIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: You wake up crashing through an image of yourself
Last Line: Marry the man who saves her
Subject(s): Dreams; Monsters


MONTAUK BEACH, WINTER FOR M.R., by APRIL DENONNO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Inside the rented bungalow the floors collect sand
Last Line: And sinks the water closing like a dream
Subject(s): Dreams; Sea; Seashore; Water


MONTEFIORE, by AMBROSE BIERCE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw - 'twas in a dream, the other night
Last Line: And in a moment was a lonely man!
Subject(s): Charity; Dreams; Jews; Montefiore, Moses Haim (1784-1885); Philanthropy; Nightmares; Judaism


MOOD, by THEODORE ANTHONY STANFORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: To dream - and so to watch the wan moon glimmer
Last Line: But only waste and molten sky and pain!
Subject(s): Dreams; Insanity; Moon; Sea; Nightmares; Madness; Mental Illness; Ocean


MOONLIGHT AND DREAMS, by JEANNETTE EUGENIE CUSHING    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh moon, moon hanging in a high translucent sky
Last Line: While over our dust the moon shall shine and loving vigil keep.
Subject(s): Dreams; Moon; Nightmares


MORNING OF JANUARY 2, 1993, by GERARD JOSEPH MALANGA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Why would danny campana speak to me
Last Line: What is this thing called dream?
Subject(s): Dreams


MOUNTAIN LIVING: 13, by HAN SHAN TE-CH'ING    Poem Source                    
First Line: A quiet night
Last Line: Until the pine wind sounds %fill my ears
Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Sleep; Zen Buddhism


MOUNTAIN LIVING: 4, by HAN SHAN TE-CH'ING    Poem Source                    
First Line: It only took a single flake
Last Line: Climbs a solitary peak
Subject(s): Dreams; Zen Buddhism


MOUNTAIN NOCTURNE, by LAURIE KUTCHINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Between the trailer and purple mountain
Last Line: I held my breath but my heart kept running
Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Girls


MR. & MRS. DISCOBBOLOS, by TOM SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: He sang: why is it fair? Why must I hear
Last Line: A woman is born old and lives forever
Subject(s): Dreams; Night


MR. HAMMOND'S PARABLE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He was a dreamer of the days
Last Line: "he's studied out a patent churn!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dreams; Fables; Farm Life; Nightmares; Allegories; Agriculture; Farmers


MR. OKAMOTO'S DREAM, by GREG HEWETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: This local to kyoto shakes
Last Line: When you have arrived
Subject(s): Dreams


MULTITUDES TURN IN DARKNESS, by CONRAD AIKEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The half-shut doors through which we heard that music
Last Line: And enter our dreams again
Subject(s): Dreams


MUSE OF THE TENDER NIGHT, by CAL BEDIENT    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I bolt up in nightmare, I frighten you. I hate you then
Last Line: Love me enough to think of killing me. Then hold me, my little hairpin
Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Stars


MUSIC'S ECHO, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In my ears it grew
Last Line: Upon the breast of day.
Subject(s): Dreams; Music & Musicians; Nightmares


MY DAUGHTER WHISPERS IN HER SLEEP, by NANCE VAN WINCKEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Coins she meant to carry a long distance
Last Line: The band, and they shine - %even this far across her room
Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Sleep


MY DREAM, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I dreamed a dream next tuesday week
Subject(s): Dreams;nonsense; Nightmares


MY DREAM, by LEW BLOCKCOLSKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: I had this dream
Last Line: I woke up
Subject(s): Dreams


MY DREAM, by MANUEL MARIA FLORES    Poem Source                    
First Line: By night a dream was with me. Beneath a gloomy
Last Line: Left sweet and glowing kisses upon my lifted brow
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Shadows


MY DREAM, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In my dream, methought I trod
Last Line: "fear not! He hath gone before!"
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


MY DREAM OF DREAMS, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Alone within my house I sit
Last Line: I hug my dream of dreams.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


MY DREAM SHIPS, by EDITH DAVIS ROWE    Poem Text                    
First Line: There are some of my ships that are still at sea
Last Line: Awaiting the rise of the homeward breeze.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


MY DREAMS, by GEORGIA DAY SHERWOOD    Poem Text                    
First Line: My dreams are like unto the stars
Last Line: Brings daily tasks on golden beams.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


MY FAMILIAR DREAM, by PAUL VERLAINE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Often I have this dream, strange and penetrating
Last Line: The tone of dear voices, those that have died
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Nightmares


MY FATHER'S WATCH, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One night I dreamed I was locked in my father's watch
Last Line: I saw my father's face frown through the glass
Subject(s): Dreams; Fathers; Watches; Nightmares


MY FATHER'S WATCH, by JOHN CIARDI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One night I dreamed I was locked in my father's watch
Last Line: I saw my father's face frown through the glass
Subject(s): Dreams; Fathers; Watches


MY HEAVEN, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I had a dream, sweetheart, last night
Last Line: The heaven in your love.
Subject(s): Dreams; Future Life; Heaven; Love; Love - Nature Of; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise


MY HOME; A DREAM, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have dreamt of a home - a happy home
Last Line: Within that home -- I may not tell.
Subject(s): Dreams; Home; Nightmares


MY HUSBAND CLEMENTE, by ALBERTO ALVARO RIOS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw clemente this morning but you didn't
Last Line: I took clemente's big hand, to my mouth and to my hip. %it was this that he understood, and I knew I
Subject(s): Dreams; Marriage


MY LADY IN THE FIRE-LIGHT, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I see the lady of my dreams
Last Line: Which worships my sweet lady.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


MY LADY IS MY DREAM GIRL, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: My lady is my dream-girl
Last Line: My lady's but a dream.
Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Girls; Nightmares


MY LITTLE DREAMS, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm folding up my little dreams
Last Line: Tonight, within my heart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Dreams; Nightmares


MY OWN, by SYLVIA BING    Poem Text                    
First Line: Acrid fragrance of salt in the night air -
Last Line: And the waves against the shore are droning -- droning --
Subject(s): Dreams; Sea; Nightmares; Ocean


MY PERFECT NIGHT, by DAVID BOTTOMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: First a tumble of clouds, muscular and black, full of noise
Last Line: Looks deep and alive.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


MY PROLOGUE, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If heat of youth, 'tis heat suppressed
Last Line: It well may be; and they that read will know.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Praise; Youth; Nightmares


MY SHATTERED DREAMS, by C. CELESTE DE SILVA    Poem Text                    
First Line: The dream of my life has been shattered
Last Line: And god may there on them smile.
Subject(s): Dreams; Pain; Tears; Nightmares; Suffering; Misery


MY SHIP, by CONSTANCE V. FRAZIER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Out of the harbor at break of day
Last Line: And sank in a sea of gleaming stars.
Subject(s): Dreams; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Nightmares; Seamen; Sails


MY WHITE DOG, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Is walking along
Last Line: And I %am he
Subject(s): Dreams


MY WISH WON'T WASH, by ROSEMARIE WILLIAMSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I was young, I fantasized
Last Line: The laundry room and kitchen sink!
Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Water


MYTHIC FIGURES, CYCLIC DREAMS, by BIM HARRISON    Poem Source                    
First Line: She wasn't as innocent as they make her seem
Last Line: The scent of dog and risen dough
Subject(s): Dreams; Mythology


MYTHOS OF ORIGIN, SELS., by TERRI WITEK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I wanted to be mary, queen of the may
Last Line: Through. In land as harsh as thirst, %what grows is twisted, thorned
Subject(s): Dreams; Hope


NATURAL OFFENSE, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: We were taking a little walk down the road
Last Line: No doubt %they took offense
Subject(s): Dreams


NATURE'S WORD, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In holy moments, when great nature seems
Last Line: Or where we know not, but we trust the word.
Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Hearts; Nature; Nightmares; World


NEOCLASSICIST, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I know your moral sources, prig
Last Line: Old women, waited, patiently
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Man-woman Relationships; Old Age


NEST LIVING, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: At the top of this
Last Line: We are collaborating beautifully
Subject(s): Dreams


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


NEW DREAMS FOR OLD, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK    Poem Text                    
First Line: God, who through ages past
Last Line: Give us new dreams for old!
Subject(s): Dreams; Faith; Religion; Nightmares; Belief; Creed; Theology


NEW DREAMS FOR OLD, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Is there no voice in the world to come crying
Last Line: New for old!
Subject(s): Dreams; Voices; Nightmares


NEW ENGLAND, AUTUMN, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our daughter dreamt of magnolias
Last Line: I woke with a start as if we had set an alarm.
Subject(s): Blood; Dreams; Family Life; New England; Nightmares; Relatives


NEW MOON, by IDA B. BOTTS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I dreamed that cupid had lost his bow
Last Line: And the bow was just the new moon!
Subject(s): Dreams; Moon; Nightmares


NEW YEAR'S EVE, by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The other night I had a dream, most clear
Last Line: My hand could feel your hand was warm, warm, warm!
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Dreams; Holidays; Memory; New Year; Nightmares


NIGHT GARDEN, by JANET S. WONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Deep in the earth
Last Line: In the night garden
Subject(s): Dreams


NIGHT IN A GARDEN, by MARY MORRIS DUANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The night is still
Last Line: And life eternal springs.
Subject(s): Birds; Dreams; Gardens & Gardening; Life; Night; Nightmares; Bedtime


NIGHT IN AVIGNON, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gherardo %listen. Another word, francesco
Last Line: The green of the whole fair world!...O laura! %laura
Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Love; Plays And Playwrights; Soul; Women


NIGHT MARE, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My dream began in bliss and lifted high
Last Line: A night-mare mistery of a sealing doom %and feeble picture of the dread to come
Subject(s): Dreams


NIGHT MIRROR, by JOHN HOLLANDER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What it showed was always the same
Last Line: And cold, on the pillow's dark side
Subject(s): Dreams; Mirrors


NIGHT OF SHADOWS, by CHARLES GUERIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Night of shadows, tragic, helpless night!
Last Line: The sleep of the conquered and the sleep of the dead.
Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Shadows; Sleep; Stars; Nightmares; Bedtime


NIGHT OFF GALLIPOLI: 1. A DELIRIOUS VOICE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweeter than sleep and the dream of death
Last Line: Being rest.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Sea; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares; Ocean


NIGHT OFF GALLIPOLI: 7. VOICE OF A FRENCH POET, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And so the songs must go unsung
Last Line: And I am well content.
Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Hearts; Singing & Singers; Nightmares


NIGHT ON EARTH, by BILLY COLLINS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I got home late and drank most
Last Line: What you touched %and how it made you feel
Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Night


NIGHT RIVER, by BILLY C. CLARK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I cannot hear the river play tonight
Last Line: Except within a dream, within a prayer
Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Silence


NIGHTFALL, by LAURIE KUTCHINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I blink, and the sun has swept up the last shadows
Last Line: The silence taking all of me %into its mouth
Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Shadows; Silence; Sleep


NIGHTIEMARE, by FRIEDERIKE MAYROCKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: A nightiemare, he said, he laughed
Last Line: Very near, he said, it occured to me
Subject(s): Dreams


NIGHTMARE, by FRANK MKALAWILE CHIPASULA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Darkness chained me to my tattered reed mat
Last Line: And the nightmare flees my secret light
Subject(s): Dreams


NIGHTMARE, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Through the blinds
Last Line: Mercurous in the moon.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Change; Dreams; Fear; Nightmares


NIGHTMARE, by NGUYEN QUANG THIEU    Poem Source                    
First Line: His dog licks and licks his chest
Last Line: His dog licks and licks %and licks and licks
Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Dreams


NIGHTMARE, by GEORGE+(2) ROBERTS    Poem Source                    
First Line: You are walking down a long hallway. Your classroom is the last one
Last Line: Classroom is the last door on the left
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep


NIGHTMARE, by JANET S. WONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: You're afraid %that the things
Last Line: A news-at-seven true nightmare
Subject(s): Dreams


NIGHTMARE OF A FRESHMAN SIGN SWIPER, by W. D. FLAGG    Poem Text                    
First Line: He turned and tossed upon his bed
Last Line: "I say, 'do you wear pants?'"
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


NIGHTMARE, FR. IOLANTHE, by WILLIAM SCHWENCK GILBERT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When you're lying awake with a dismal headache
Last Line: Long—ditto ditto my song—and thank goodness they're both of them over!
Alternate Author Name(s): Gilbert, W. S.
Variant Title(s): Lord Chancellor's Song
Subject(s): Dreams; Headaches; Nightmares


NIGHTNIGHT, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Go to sleep. That's a strange sky
Last Line: Pretend you know who you are.
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep


NINE DREAM SONGS, by JOHN BERRYMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In a motion of night they massed nearer my post
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


NINE ELEGIES FOR AMY MCCLELLAND: 9., by HUGH STEINBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: In a dream I was having a conversation
Last Line: To kiss me, with these little, tiny bites
Subject(s): Dreams; Memory


NIPPON, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night, I dreamed of nippon ....
Last Line: When nippon isle was made.
Subject(s): Dreams; Islands; Sea; Temples; Nightmares; Ocean; Mosques


NISHA, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I fell asleep, / hearing melody
Last Line: Fell asleep dreaming.
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares


NOCTURNE, by ILA F. BERRY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I had that dream again last night, the rain
Last Line: Of course it's all a dream, but I surmise %this is my last best link to paradise
Subject(s): Dreams; Heaven


NOCTURNE, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I dream you are the moon's most favoured child
Last Line: The silences that brood around the stars.
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Night; Nightmares; Bedtime


NOCTURNE, by WINIFRED LUCAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: A face on sleep as easily intent
Last Line: To thought alone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs.
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Nightmares


NOCTURNE, by XAVIER VILLAURRUTIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: All that the night
Last Line: Dies on my hard lips
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Shadows; Silence


NOCTURNE IN A MINOR KEY, by CONRAD AIKEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I will say: I walked alone in whistling darkness
Last Line: The lover, ridiculous; the loved, sublime.
Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Shadows; Sleep; Nightmares; Bedtime


NOCTURNE IN ANJOU, by RICHARD HOVEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamed of sappho on a summer night
Last Line: "as one who dreams, ""I have forgotten them."
Subject(s): Dreams; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Nightmares


NOCTURNE OF THE STATUE, by XAVIER VILLAURRUTIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dreaming, dreaming the night, the street, the stairway
Last Line: Till hearing it say, I am sick to death of dreaming.
Subject(s): Dreams; Love - Loss Of; Mourning


NORTH AND SOUTH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of the north I wove a dream
Last Line: In the silence of the dream I found fulfilled.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dreams; Grapes; North, The; Southern States; Nightmares; South (u.s.)


NOSTALGIA, by JOYCE CAROL OATES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Crumbling stone steps of the old schoolhouse
Subject(s): Dreams; Education; Memory; Schools; Nightmares; Students


NOSTALGIA, by JOYCE CAROL OATES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Crumbling stone steps of the old schoolhouse
Last Line: Never to press my flat hand over my heart again as if I had one
Subject(s): Dreams; Education; Memory; Schools


NOT FEVER, NOT DREAM, by CAROLYN KOO    Poem Source                    
First Line: It began the way it always did: with division
Last Line: A child's burn: I've been where you most fear to be
Subject(s): Dreams


NOTHING, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dreams the shape of music heard asleep
Last Line: Like clouds without the rain, wax paper rolled over waxed sky
Subject(s): Dreams


NOTHING LEFT BUT DREAMS, by MARTHA TAYLOR    Poem Text                    
First Line: The dreams of youth are dreams of hope
Last Line: We've nothing left but dreams.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


NOTUS IGNOTO, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Do you sigh for the power you dream of
Last Line: Are ever revealed!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Pride; Truth; Nightmares; Self-esteem; Self-respect


NOW THEY DESIRE', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a sleep we have not slept
Last Line: In sevenfold day of days
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Jerusalem; Doves; Sleep; Dreams; Love


NUBIA, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A land of dreams and sleep, a poppied land!
Last Line: But she hath built an altar to repose.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Time; Nightmares


NUTRITIVE VALUES, by PHILIP SCHULTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sometimes we just turn & say something
Last Line: Now shut your eyes & sleep. Deeply
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep


O DREAM, WHERE ART THOU NOW?, by EMILY JANE BRONTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


O, THAT MY MUSE COULD TELL, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When roused from sleep at night
Last Line: When dawns the morning light!
Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Sleep; Nightmares; Bedtime


OCTOBER, 1973, by CAROLYN KIZER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night I dreamed I ran through the streets of new york
Last Line: Brother? Brother?
Subject(s): Chile; Dreams; Social Problems; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); Women; Women's Rights; Nightmares; Feminism


ODDS ARE, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I accidentally found an invisible door, and lo!
Last Line: Splitting the split %in the flow itself
Subject(s): Dreams


ODE TO KEATS, 2, THE DREAM, by DIANE DI PRIMA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hedged about as we are with prayers
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


ODE TO SLEEP, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O gentle, feather-footed sleep
Last Line: Confounds pale, trembling catiline.
Subject(s): Calm; Dreams; Forgetfulness; Rest; Sleep; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Nightmares


OF ALL THE CORNERS TO FORGET: PREPARATION (MAKE-READY), by GIAN LOMBARDO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Subsequent dreams were laden with arms carrying flags. Rows and rows filling...
Last Line: Fallen, they tire of watching the parade -where from the ground, they stretch, yawn and %proceed, of
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep


OF SUCH AS THESE, by MARION L. BERTRAND    Poem Text                    
First Line: I close my eyes and I seem to see
Last Line: The light that love is made of!
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


OH, IMMOBILITY, DEATH'S VAST ASSOCIATE, by STEPHEN DOBYNS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Parade. And the dream? To believe yourself dancing
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Physical Disabilities


OLD BLACK MEN, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They have dreamed as young black men dream
Last Line: As though they did not care.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): Old Age; African Americans; Dreams; Disappointment; African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks; Nightmares; Negroes; American Blacks


OLD FRIEND, by JANET S. WONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: I had forgotten you, friend
Last Line: Will you leave your address %on my pillow?
Subject(s): Dreams


OLD JOHN HENRY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Old john's jes' made o' the commonest stuff
Last Line: Old john henry!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dreams; Faces; Religion; Nightmares; Theology


OLD WAR-DREAMS, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In midnight sleep of many a face of anguish
Last Line: I dream, I dream, I dream.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Dreams; United States - History; Nightmares


OMEN, by ALICE DUPONT ORTIZ    Poem Text                    
First Line: I dreamed a dream, oh, sweetheart mine,'twas this
Last Line: Twas hell, and you, god help me, were a fiend!
Subject(s): Dreams; Hell; Nightmares


ON A DREAM, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Vain dreams, forbear, ye but deceivers be
Last Line: And both connex, as souls in innocence.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


ON A FERRYBOAT AT NIGHT, by ALTER ABELSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ploughing away with a pang and a groan
Last Line: Wrought as a ferry of eons and souls, the door of a dream to a dream
Subject(s): Ferry Boats; Dreams


ON A FLY-LEAF, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Singers there are of courtly
Last Line: With the rights and the wrongs of all mankind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Mankind; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Human Race


ON DREAM WATER, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And so, o'er many a league of sea
Last Line: O soul so often tried!
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


ON DREAMS, by SAMUEL EGERTON BRYDGES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O gentle sleep, come, wave thine opiate wing
Last Line: While ye relume me with your nightly aid!
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


ON DREAMS 5, by RACHEL HADAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fax me your dream. Or first take this of mine:
Last Line: Every hour makes reference to the question %listlessly, dice shaken in the rain
Subject(s): Dreams


ON DREAMS; AN IMITATION OF PETRONIUS, by JONATHAN SWIFT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Those dreams that on the silent night intrude
Last Line: Flirts from his cart the mud in walpole's face
Subject(s): Dreams


ON KILEY'S RUN, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The roving breezes come and go / on kiley's run
Last Line: On kiley's run.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Flowers; Hearts; Life; Dead, The; Nightmares


ON MARCH 26, 1048, I HAD A DREAM, by MEI YAO-CH'EN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Since the time that I remarried
Last Line: Out of nowhere snow beat on my window, %borne along, as well, by a furious wind
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Dreams


ON MY LATE DEAR WIFE, by JONATHAN RICHARDSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Adieu, dear life! Here am I left alone
Last Line: When I but see the shadow of her shade.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Marriage; Dead, The; Nightmares; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


ON THE DOWNS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Squeeze out the cowslip-wine and let me drink
Last Line: My landscape; -- she is with me; -- I can die.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Drinks & Drinking; Orion (mythology); Silence; Dead, The; Nightmares; Wine


ON THE LUTES OF FRANCE: A DREAM, by THOMAS WALSH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Some fair retirement where always
Last Line: Some books with horace's fair lines.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett
Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Nightmares; Bedtime


ON THE SHORE, by INGEMAR LECKIUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: As the dream glides
Last Line: Founders in the sea of light
Subject(s): Dreams


ON THE SOUTH COAST, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hills and valleys where april rallies his
Last Line: Free by birth of a sacred earth, and regent ever of all the sea.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nature; Sea; Spring; Time; Nightmares; Ocean


ONCE IN A DREAM, by HAROLD VINAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once in a dream I wandered down a plain
Last Line: Because of the white doves about her head.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


ONCE, FAR OVER THE BREAKERS, by YOSANO AKIKO    Poem Source                    
Last Line: With this dream which obsesses me
Subject(s): Dreams; Love


ONE AND THE MANY, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For every timid dream that nestles briefly in my palm
Last Line: While the many go
Subject(s): Dreams


ONE BLESSING HAD I THAN THE REST, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I speculate no more
Subject(s): Dreams; Prayer; Heaven


ONES THEY LOVED THE MOST, by JANET S. WONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: My mother says %the spirits of the dead
Last Line: Will stick %like cotton candy
Subject(s): Dreams


ONLY A DREAM, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Methought I saw thee yesternight
Last Line: "I work for thee, my child."
Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


ONLY A DREAM, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: May wound her heart deeper than any!
Subject(s): Dreams


ONLY ONE LOVE, by CLARA LUCINA WARNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I saw her in my fancies' dream
Last Line: Let her love brush away a false mood!
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Nightmares


ONLY THE DREAM IS REAL, by ANDERSON M. SCRUGGS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Only the dream is real. There is no plan
Last Line: And flesh and blood are dust, the dream lives on.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


OPIATE, by O'NEAL CALLAHAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I dream to rid myself
Last Line: Than those of crude realities.
Subject(s): Dreams; Vermont


ORLIE WILDE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A goddess, with a siren's grace
Last Line: "as mine to her -- as mine to her."
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Dreams; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Sea; Nightmares; Ocean


ORPHEUS ICONS, by TOM SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The rout with timbrel
Last Line: Starfish on the beach
Subject(s): Dreams; Night


OUR EUNUCH DREAMS, by DYLAN THOMAS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our eunuch dreams, all seedless in the light,
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


OUR OLD VERMONT PARLOR-ROOM, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of tiptoeing through our parlor-room
Last Line: I tiptoe fast away.
Subject(s): Dreams; Vermont; Nightmares


OUT FROM A DREAM, by ELLA ALLISON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Through the night a poet listened
Last Line: In living words of light.
Subject(s): Dreams; Poetry & Poets; Nightmares


OUT OF EARTH, by FREDERICK R. MCCREARY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Pattern the clouds for a moment
Last Line: A thorn in the heel of death.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Earth; Heaven; Hell; Nature; Dead, The; Nightmares; World; Paradise


OUT OF GRIMM: 2. GNOME, by RICHARD FOERSTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Confined till dark to a dark
Last Line: And bid us follow down
Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Sleep


OUT OF THE SILENCE OF MY DREAMS, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I hear a voice that speaks to me
Last Line: Unto his heart and hand.
Subject(s): Dreams; God; Nightmares


OUTLET, by H. PAULINE ZEBO    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sometime when oft I revel
Last Line: Lo! No escape.
Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Sleep; Thought; Nightmares; Bedtime; Thinking


OUTSIDE PERPIGNAN IN HEAVY RAIN, by NICHOLAS CHRISTOPHER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The trees sway darkly
Last Line: Their hands to shield their eyes
Subject(s): Dreams


OVER THE MOUNTAIN, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like dreary prison walls
Last Line: O beating heart, be still!
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Hearts; Mountains; Dead, The; Nightmares; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


OVER THE WAY, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Over the way of your dreams, my boy
Last Line: And the marvelous land of the ought-to-be.
Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Heaven; Nightmares; Paradise


PARABLES, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a child who dreamed
Last Line: And we begin again!
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Dreams; Imagination; Poetry And Poets; Reality


PARADISE: IN A DREAM, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once in a dream I saw the flowers
Last Line: And with my god.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Dreams; Heaven; Nightmares; Paradise


PARTCH STATIONS: 6. HE DREAMETH THE KITHARA, by JANET HOLMES    Poem Source                    
First Line: Old woman copied the kithara from a greek vase in the british
Last Line: Thinking that dream was so real I could smell taste touch it
Subject(s): Dreams


PASTICHE FOR NEW YORK, by LOREN KLEINMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: They city, lit by a single fire
Last Line: And, how still the spiderless city rests
Subject(s): Dreams; Rest


PATCHWORK, by GLADYS VERVILLE DEANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Into that deep that yields no bright return
Last Line: While I sewed seams beneath the apple tree.
Subject(s): Apples; Dreams; Fruit; Youth; Nightmares


PEACE AND QUIET, by KAREN MUENSTERMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The odor of my odyssey
Last Line: Like lightning bugs in jelly jars, %my captured memories
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep


PEARL, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "perle, plesaunte to prynces paye"
Last Line: On that precios perle wythouten spot
Subject(s): "consolation;dreams;innocence;redemption;richard Ii, King Of England (1367-1400);" Nightmares


PEGASUS, by PIERRE LOUIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: His pure feet striking sparks of flint that rise
Last Line: The white beast in forbidden heavens leap.
Alternate Author Name(s): Louys, Pierre
Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Horses; Orion (constellation); Soul; Nightmares


PERCHANCE IN DREAMS, THE HAND, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: As a few simple words of truth
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Dreams


PERFECTION, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The genomic specialist lies still and warm
Last Line: Dreaming of the perfect worm.
Subject(s): Dreams; Genetics; Worms


PERHAPS THE HAND IN DREAMING, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ    Poem Source     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
Last Line: Came with a few true words
Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio
Subject(s): Dreams


PERHAPS THIS TIME, by IRIS LEE HAILE    Poem Text                    
First Line: My moons are made of green cheese
Last Line: I'll keep my fingers crossed.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


PERSONAL LETTER: FOR MY FATHER, by LOREN KLEINMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Do not speak to me
Last Line: For us. I do not %believe in dying
Subject(s): Absence; Dreams


PHILIP AND MILDRED, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lingering fade the rays of daylight, and the listening air is chilly
Last Line: For on earth so much is needed, but in heaven love is all!
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Love; Peace; Nightmares


PHILOSOPHICAL IMMUNITY, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was in the closet
Last Line: With nietzsche and sarte
Subject(s): Dreams


PHONE CALL, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's for you %from blink your eye
Last Line: Oh the other hand, I can make believe
Subject(s): Dreams


PHOSPHORESCENT SEA, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sea scarce heaves in its calm sleep
Last Line: Dim sea's on fire around our barque.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Dreams; Sea; Sleep; Wind; Nightmares; Ocean


PHYCHE'S DREAM, by ANN LAUTERBACH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If dreams could dream, beyond the canon of landscapes
Subject(s): Dreams; Psyche (mythology); Nightmares


PHYCHE'S DREAM, by ANN LAUTERBACH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If dreams could dream, beyond the canon of landscapes
Last Line: And mocking and a version of his mouth on her mouth
Subject(s): Dreams; Psyche (mythology)


PICTURES IN THE FIRE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What is it you ask me, darling?
Last Line: And the fire had died away.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Tears; Travel; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Journeys; Trips


PILLAR WORK, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Among the flowers, the lily blooms supreme
Last Line: Fell on their hearts, and heavenly release.
Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Dreams; Flowers; Hearts; Peace; Dead, The; Nightmares


PIPE DREAMS: 1, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Admit me, wah, and light at least three lamps
Last Line: Your shelter, wah, ere he could get me jailed!
Subject(s): Dreams; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Nightmares


PIPE DREAMS: 2, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dreams are all right, wah kee, but nightmares
Last Line: Beating all records to this safe retreat.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


PIPE DREAMS: 3, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I must complain, wah kee. Your brand of hop
Last Line: I say, wah kee, your hop's unfit to smoke!
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


PIPE DREAMS: 4, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Protect me, wah! I see three fearful fiends
Last Line: Your young appendix, also all your wealth?
Subject(s): Dreams; Physicians; Nightmares; Doctors


PIPE DREAMS: 7, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dreamed I was in dreamland. Say, wah kee
Last Line: And there we'll rest in sweet atrocious ease!
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


PIPE DREAMS: 9, by WILLIAM A. PHELON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Just boil the hop a little, will you wah?
Last Line: And fix the yenhok for one glorious draw!
Subject(s): Dreams; Hallucinations And Illusions; Nightmares


PLACE OF BUTTONS, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here we are in the place of buttons -- choices
Last Line: Its way of being here in this fragile state %and how I wake up inside it
Subject(s): Dreams


PLAINT OF THE PINE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I found a pine that shot its solemn bole
Last Line: "with a fear of the ocean, that knoweth not rest."
Subject(s): Dreams; Pine Trees; Sea; Trees; Nightmares; Ocean


PLEA FOR 'CASTLES IN THE AIR', by JACOB GOUGH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Amid the myriad troubles that meet us day by day
Last Line: "for all are kings and conquerors in ""castles in the air."
Subject(s): Castles; Dreams; Nightmares


POEM, by SONIA SANCHEZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am dreaming
Last Line: For today it is enough
Subject(s): Dreams


POEM TO BE RECITED IN DREAMS OF THE SEA, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: At night, in the sounds of an ocher and hallucinatory, confused and
Last Line: With light like the invincible seasons of dream
Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Dreams; Hallucinations And Illusions; Human Rights - Argentina; Love


POEMS FOR DREAMS AND UNDERWATER PORTALS, by RAY A. YOUNG BEAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: Behind selene and javier buffalo husband
Last Line: Two more for assurance %in a non-human domain
Subject(s): Dreams; Peace


POETIC EPIGRAMS: 23. A BROOK IN WINTER, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Strange as a frozen dream
Last Line: Is this stilled winter stream.
Subject(s): Brooks; Dreams; Winter; Streams; Creeks; Nightmares


POETIC EPIGRAMS: 7. IN A CEMETERY AT NIGHT, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Is it ghost-dreams that rise
Last Line: Or only the fire-flies?
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Dreams; Graves; Night; Graveyards; Nightmares; Tombs; Tombstones; Bedtime


POETS, by ELLA MOORE MARSHALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: We build a dream to justify
Last Line: We build a dream!
Subject(s): Dreams; Poetry & Poets; Nightmares


PORNOGRAPHER'S DREAM, by PAUL MCRAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: But not tonight. Tonight a soft wind drops in
Last Line: Behaves in a way that would almost have made his mother proud
Subject(s): Dreams


PORTRAIT WITH RED BIRD, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was telling you how dreaming I could hear
Last Line: Back with the bird, red and sounding....
Subject(s): Dreams


POSTPONED NIGHTMARE, by SANDOR CSOORI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm sitting in the sunshine
Last Line: Your breath from down below, perhaps.
Subject(s): Absence; Dreams; Grief; Loss; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Pain; Summer; Separation; Isolation; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations; Suffering; Misery


POWER OF DREAMS, by BEVERLY BARANOWSKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: You probably don't know this
Last Line: Destinations
Subject(s): Air Travel; Dreams


PRAIRIE DREAMING SEA, by DIANE JARVENPA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Prairie gleams in winter
Last Line: Beyond the work waiting inside the barn
Subject(s): Dreams; Prairies


PRAYER, by JOHN CHIPMAN FARRAR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night I crept across the snow
Last Line: It could have been a christmas dream.
Subject(s): Christmas; Dreams; Jesus Christ; Prayer; Nativity, The; Nightmares


PRAYER, by TOM SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now I lay me down to sleep
Last Line: The sun will flagellate the sky
Subject(s): Dreams; Night


PRAYER FOR A DREAM, by JOHN C. ADLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hearty and hale and free
Last Line: That inherits my dream!
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


PRELUDE, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In a grove of ilex
Last Line: This is the gift of the flower of dream.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Hearts; Lilies; Love; Rome, Italy; Nightmares


PREMONITION, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night I dreamed
Last Line: Had darkened while I slept!
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares


PRESENCES, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This night has been so strange that it seemed
Last Line: And one, it may be, a queen.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Women; Fear; Dreams


PRIMITIVE, by GEORGE OPPEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A woman dreamed
Subject(s): Dreams; Fear; Nightmares


PRIVATE CITIZEN, by PETER JOHNSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He has this dream where he walks
Last Line: Him and his wife
Subject(s): Dreams; Presidents, United States


PROGRESS, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Is it a wave we catch at
Last Line: To voyage the universe?
Subject(s): Dreams; Faith; Sea; Universe; Nightmares; Belief; Creed; Ocean


PROGRESSION, by FRIEDERIKE MAYROCKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Progression, he said, the kite's got no wind
Last Line: In order, he said, to be able to grow gradually into the %back of time
Subject(s): Change; Dreams; Progress


PROMISE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: She seized the dream by the hair and dragged it
Last Line: Or a midgety gang of tormenting fleas.
Subject(s): Dreams


PROPER BURIAL, by TOM SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: There should be shining
Last Line: And there would be %parades
Subject(s): Dreams; Night


PROPOSED PACT, by JESSIE FARNHAM    Poem Text                    
First Line: Last night, dear lord, he dreamed that he was tall
Last Line: But give him back the dream that he was tall!
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


PROTEUS, by DEBRA KANG DEAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Licked by the tongues of sleep %we dream of birth, of water
Last Line: This is the heart of the matter: %cell deep, we cannot deny sleep
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang
Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Love; Sleep


PROTEUS, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By the splashed cave I found him. Not
Last Line: Of his own death by the insatiate sea
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Dreams; Monsters; Sleep


PRUFROCK IN WONDERLAND, by KENNETH REXROTH            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These sky-rocket etchings are my life
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


PRUFROCK IN WONDERLAND, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These sky-rocket etchings are my life
Last Line: Lead to an overwhelming... %white rabbit
Subject(s): Dreams


PURIFY ME, by ANA ROSSETTI    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's true, I sometimes try to rebel
Last Line: Infancy, my homeland, my child, memories
Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Self


QUITE HIGH ENOUGH OR LOW...., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O singular perception of the light
Last Line: Whose merest drop or two a dungeon fills!
Subject(s): Dreams; Light; Love; Nightmares


RAIN, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No, the queen must not look upon
Last Line: With your wet nipples in the rain
Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo
Subject(s): Dreams; Rain; Togetherness


RATCLIFF, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The dream-god brought me to a landscape fair
Last Line: And through sheer terror I awoke from sleep.
Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Flowers; Love; Tears; Nightmares


RATHER THAN CRY, by ISHIKAWA TAKUBOKU    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was in a dream
Last Line: With a drunken, flushed laugh, %'rather than cry'
Subject(s): Dreams


RATTLESNAKE DREAM, by SYBIL ESTESS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The dream you had about the six-foot rattler
Last Line: The better one as much as you consciously could
Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Snakes


RAVENESQUE, by DAVID ST. JOHN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamt a golden snake
Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Religion; Snakes; Nightmares; Theology; Serpents; Vipers


RAVENESQUE, by DAVID ST. JOHN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamt a golden snake
Last Line: Which was the unbroken surrender of god
Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Religion; Snakes


REACHING THE MOON, by TOM SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: He watches from her thigh the sun
Last Line: He says, but his blood swells for the moon
Subject(s): Dreams; Night


REAL FEAST, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was running %after myself
Last Line: To be accepted. To accept %naturally
Subject(s): Dreams


REALISATION, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The morning after he murdered my dream
Last Line: Shit never turns to cream.'
Subject(s): Disappointment; Dreams


REALITY, by GLADYS CROMWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What things are real
Last Line: Their silent company?
Subject(s): Dreams; Reality; Nightmares


REBOUND, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lying longer than planned on the couch
Last Line: Altogether %changed
Subject(s): Dreams


RECONNAISSANCE, by EDNA BECKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: There lies the far horizon
Last Line: To everyday?
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


RECORDING A DREAM, by ZHENG YUNDUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Magu, that immortal of old
Last Line: Returning from my dream I emit a long sigh
Subject(s): Dreams; Legends, Chinese


RECORDING A DREAM ON A SPRING NIGHT IN THE YEAR RENSHEN, by YE XIAOLUAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: One volume of the surangama sutra, one stick of incense
Last Line: Why do they busy themselves daily with their nests?
Subject(s): Dreams


REDEMPTION, by DANIEL BEATTY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I felt gutshot buffalo herds pitch into black ravines
Last Line: And I began thereafter to dream without jealousies
Subject(s): Buffaloes; Dreams


REDUCTIO AD ABSURDUM BLUES, by WILLIAM MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, the soldier he wants to be somewhere he once was
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris
Subject(s): Sailors & Sailing; Soldiers; War; Dreams; Nightmares


REEDS POLISH, by GUY BENNETT    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Of beauty, %of water
Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Nature


REFLECTING TIP, EXPECT THE TASTE OF WEDGES, by GUY BENNETT    Poem Source                    
Last Line: The dream's prospect a disaster: %the moon
Subject(s): Dreams; Moon; Night; Sleep


REFUGEE DREAM, by JOYCE SUTPHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Last night you came to me
Last Line: As if to a faraway country
Subject(s): Dreams; Refugees


RELATIVITY, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Only this at last I say
Last Line: Distance is the breadth of the soul.
Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Dreams; Life; Nightmares


RELICS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This flower that smells of honey and the sea
Last Line: Who knows but I what memories too take flight?
Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Smells; Nightmares; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances


REMINISCING, by CARMELITA A. LECLAIR    Poem Text                    
First Line: Into the cradle of my thoughts
Last Line: While in my reminiscing spell.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


RENUNCIATION OF DREAMS AND SUCH, by MARY JO BANG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The night you wandered in the wrong direction
Last Line: For the treason of warmth
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


RENUNCIATION OF DREAMS AND SUCH, by MARY JO BANG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The night you wandered in the wrong direction
Last Line: And temperature - in a system where zero stands %for the treason of warmth
Subject(s): Dreams


REPOSE OF THE SOUL IN THE WOOD OF L'HAUTIL: DREAM OF THE FIRST DAY, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Rest in the wood, my soul, on the past no longer brood, on that van
Last Line: Proud. Rejoice, rejoice, my soul, one sees pissefontaine . . .
Subject(s): Dreams; Forests; Soul; Nightmares; Woods


REPUBLIC AND MOTHERLAND, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up the vast harbor with the morning sun
Last Line: Thy mayflower crossed the sea.
Subject(s): Dreams; Explorers; Nations; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Nightmares; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Ocean


RESIGNATION, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The sadder moments of a wearied hope
Last Line: Into the calm majestic life of god.
Subject(s): Dreams; God; Grief; Pain; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery


RESPITE, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Drowsing, the other afternoon, I lay
Last Line: That now again beneath their lids are hot.
Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Mothers; Dead, The; Nightmares


RETRIBUTION, by WILMA CRITTENDEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I spilt my blood upon a battlefield
Last Line: Behold the courage of the wandering jew!
Subject(s): Dreams; Hate; Jews; Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.); Life; Nightmares; Judaism


RETURN, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Don't let me be met by the loneliness of an empty house
Last Line: A dream that I dream while you are dreaming
Subject(s): Dreams; France; Love; Solitude


RETURN, by DAVID RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: First visitation in a dream: you're back
Last Line: How you said you wanted to be born again, out of the corn
Subject(s): Dreams


RETURNING, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: While in the barrio no one spoke
Last Line: So that later, %under the northern skies, %we could begin to dream %about returning
Subject(s): Dreams; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


RETURNING DREAMS, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the lone silence of my later nights
Last Line: For us to find, and feel that truth is there!
Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


REUNION, by MARY WINTER WERE    Poem Text                    
First Line: When the red embers on the hearth glow bright
Last Line: And I am free of earth, and earth's despair.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


REVELATION, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Far down the moonlight dim of memory
Last Line: That brings us life forever and forever.
Subject(s): Dreams; God; Life; Memory; Soul; Nightmares


REVERIE, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All around me, everywhere
Last Line: "let thy soul be lost in prayer."
Subject(s): Dreams; Wandering & Wanderers; Nightmares


RHYME FOR REMEMBRANCE OF MAY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Remember may? / oh, till no more a color tincts the spray
Last Line: May means remembering you!
Subject(s): Dreams; Life; May (month); Memory; Rhyme; Nightmares


RHYTHM, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, my fancy teems with a world of dreams
Last Line: On the breath of my soul-strung lyre.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


RHYTHMS OF A MAIMED SPRINGTIME, by EUGENE JOLAS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O mystery that weighs upon my soul! Why do the shadows stifle me?
Last Line: Blast my thoughts that cling to the eternal grind!
Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders; Dreams; Mystery; Spring; Enigmas; Oddities; Nightmares


RICKSHAW, by HENRIK NORDBRANDT    Poem Source                    
First Line: I can remember
Last Line: You're heavier than anything, and still we carry you
Subject(s): Dreams


RIDDLES OF MERLIN, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As I was walking / alone by the sea
Last Line: "sunrise for west."
Subject(s): Dreams; Riddles; Sea; Sun; Nightmares; Ocean


RIO GRANDE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now this was what macpherson told
Last Line: The race the dead men ride.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Horses; Racing; Rivers; Sleep; Nightmares


RIOLAMA, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a land beyond the lands you know
Last Line: My native land that I shall never know.
Subject(s): Dreams; Forests; Love; Moon; Nightmares; Woods


RISQUE, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: We are roses
Last Line: Rousing, achingly outenduring us all
Subject(s): Dreams


RIVER ELMS, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I love to sleep out doors beneath an elm
Last Line: An elm tree talked with god.
Subject(s): Dreams; Rivers; Nightmares


RIVER WIE, by MICHAEL WATERS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: During lovemaking he fell asleep, one moment
Last Line: Then turned to stare down the stagnant house %growing paler in the glimmer reflected off the river
Variant Title(s): River Wif
Subject(s): Dreams; Fear; Rivers; Romance


ROADSIDE POEMS: A DREAM OF WAKING, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A child was born in sin and shame
Last Line: And melt the earthly dream.
Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Grief; Mothers; Childhood; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness


ROADSIDE POEMS: THE WAKEFUL SLEEPER, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When things are holding wonted pace
Last Line: The child is with the father.
Subject(s): Children; Dreams; God; Mothers; Sleep; Childhood; Nightmares


ROBERT BROWNING (DIED AT THE PALAZZO REZZONICO, VENICE), by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So, it is well: what need is there to mourn?
Last Line: Uplift his soul to immortality.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Death; Dreams; Life; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Nightmares


ROCOCO, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Take hand and part with laughter
Last Line: And ten that you forget.
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Memory; Time; Nightmares


ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: VOYAGE BY NIGHT, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The half-moon peer'd from the darksome clouds
Last Line: Our number then was two.
Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Moon; Night; Nightmares; Bedtime


ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 14. MRS. CARE, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When fortune on me shed her ray
Last Line: While the nurse her snuff is taking.
Subject(s): Dreams; Fortune; Loss; Nurses; Nightmares


ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 17. EVIL DREAMS, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In vision once more young and happy, paced I
Last Line: As I have hopeless lain for many a year.
Subject(s): Dreams; Evil; Kisses; Love; Nightmares


ROMANS IN DORSET; A.D. 1895, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A stupor on the heath
Last Line: My juvenal! Distraught with love of violated law.
Subject(s): Dreams; Roman Empire; Vision; Nightmares


RUNT OF A DREAM, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Maybe there is an evening meant
Last Line: Not even allowed in, there
Subject(s): Dreams


SAD PERVERSITY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When but a little boy, it seemed
Last Line: I am a little boy.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Boys; Dreams; Nightmares


SAFETY, by CLYDE MCGEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: A cross uplifted on a hill
Last Line: They went to pay their tithes and pray.
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares


SALOME, by PETER HARVEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am still startled by the pale revolution of the mornings. Startled that
Last Line: Left me there
Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Love


SALUTE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We, about to die, salute you kindly
Last Line: We, the elders, hail our brothers young!
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Hearts; Hope; Love; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares; Optimism


SALVAGE OPERATIONS, by PAUL MARIANI            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When my oldest boy calls home (collect
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


SALVAGE OPERATIONS, by PAUL MARIANI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When my oldest boy calls home (collect
Last Line: And cleaned, he figures he could still %get something for the plymouth
Subject(s): Dreams


SANCTUARY, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My sister got me the script, I couldn't
Last Line: Is sitting accusingly at the foot of my bed.
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Death; Dreams; Morgues; Motion Pictures; Unfaithfulness; Actresses; Dead, The; Nightmares; Movies; Cinema; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy


SAPPHICS, by SAPPHO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All the night sleep came not upon my eyelids
Last Line: Hearing, to hear them.
Subject(s): Aphrodite; Dreams; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Sleep; Nightmares


SAY, LOVELY DREAM, by EDMUND WALLER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Dreams


SCARECROW ON FIRE, by DEAN YOUNG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Everything is brushed away, off the sleeve,
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


SEA DREAM, by FREDERICK RIDGELY TORRENCE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes at night a song comes flying
Last Line: Singing of marvels in the body's dark.
Subject(s): Dreams; Sea; Nightmares; Ocean


SEA RHAPSODY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By day, the tremble of the boat
Last Line: Restless, that yet bring rest.
Subject(s): Boats; Dreams; Earth; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Sleep; Youth; Nightmares; World; Seamen; Sails; Ocean


SEARCH, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She writes that she cannot
Last Line: Know, the words of 'love'
Subject(s): Dreams; Love - Nature Of


SEASONS: NO. 2, by LOREN KLEINMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The last remains of summer
Last Line: Of burning leaves- %an omen of the fall
Subject(s): Dreams; Love


SECOND COMING, by SAMUEL KATZ    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sheets whiten about him. From the dark
Last Line: To warm him from the cold hands of his age.
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Second Advent; Nightmares; Second Coming Of Christ


SECOND LIFE OF MY MOTHER, by JORGE CARRERA ANDRADE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I hear your familiar footsteps all about me
Last Line: In vast simple chorus, surround and sustain me!
Subject(s): Dreams; Mothers; Presence


SECOND THOUGHTS, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Was it I who dreamed
Last Line: In the endless, love!
Subject(s): Doubt; Dreams; Faith; Love; Perseverance; Skepticism; Nightmares; Belief; Creed


SEEDINGS, by JEROME ROTHENBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now in the dream
Subject(s): Dreams; Poetry & Poets; Poetry Readings; Nightmares


SEIZURE, by FREDRICK ZYDEK    Poem Source                    
First Line: It starts somewhere deep
Last Line: Puddle shivering in the cold
Subject(s): Dreams; Sickness


SERENADE, by LEVI BISHOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The bright stars are gleaming above
Last Line: Oh, dream of me in thy soft slumbers!
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Moon; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Songs


SERENADE, by JOHN DAVIDSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: With stars, with trailing galaxies
Last Line: Dreaming a dream of me!
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Night; Sleep; Nightmares; Bedtime


SERENADE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: While my lady sleepeth
Last Line: Dreams bright and pure as these
Subject(s): Dreams; Love - Loss Of; Romance


SERENADE - TO NORA, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The moonlight is failin'
Last Line: And light up the night where the heart av me's gropin'.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dreams; Moon; Night; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Bedtime


SESTINA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw my soul at rest upon a day
Last Line: Sing while he may, man hath no long delight.
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Soul; Nightmares


SEVEN AGES, by JEWELL BOTHWELL TULL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Over the dim hill in the twilight
Last Line: For I know it is the beginning.
Subject(s): Disappointment; Dreams; Future Life; Hope; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Optimism


SEVEN TIMES SEVEN [- LONGING FOR HOME], by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A song of a boat
Last Line: Ah me!
Subject(s): Boats; Dreams; Homesickness; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Songs


SEVEN TWILIGHTS: 7, by CONRAD AIKEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the long silence of the sea, the seaman
Last Line: That dreamed-of harbor lies which we would find.
Subject(s): Dreams; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Sea; Nightmares; Ocean


SHADOW, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Night fell once you had forded the stream
Last Line: God, talk and breathe and laugh and be your shadow is much difference between footprints
Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Shadows; Sleep


SHADOW RIVER (MUSKOVA), by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A stream of tender [or, silver] gladness
Last Line: The shadows and the dreaming.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Dreams; Lament; Rivers; Nightmares


SHE IS DREAMING, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes %the whole world of women
Last Line: Will he murder it or %marry it
Subject(s): Dreams


SHE REARRANGES THE CHARACTERS FROM A DREAM, by RUTH MOON KEMPHER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Takes out one scene, as too confusing: that
Last Line: Taste and texture, a yellow fallen leaf
Subject(s): Dreams


SHEAF OF MEMORIES, by AVIS TURNER FRENCH    Poem Text                    
First Line: I longed to free my heart from broken hopes of olden years
Last Line: Though they were part of yesteryears, they helped to make today.
Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Youth; Nightmares


SHINING STARS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shine, ye stars of heaven
Last Line: Bids the end arise!
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Stars; Time; Nightmares


SHIPS, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One by one my dreams come true
Last Line: Wandering and unfulfilled and free.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


SHIPS O' DREAMS, by EDITH MEDBERY FITCH    Poem Text                    
First Line: The gray ships, the stately ships
Last Line: A-steaming down the bay.
Subject(s): Dreams; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Nightmares; Ocean


SHOP OF DREAMS, by MARY JANE CARR    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shop of dreams in up on a hill
Last Line: To nibble the moonbeam clover
Subject(s): Dreams


SHUT-EYE, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He dreams he's shooting himself in the eye his left eye the
Subject(s): Dreams; Suicide; Eyes; Nightmares


SIC TRANSIT, by KATHARINE WILLIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: As fall the sere leaves from the tree
Last Line: Seeds will find roots and flowers grow!
Subject(s): Autumn; Dreams; Flowers; Seasons; Trees; Fall; Nightmares


SIDEWALK PHILOSOPHER, by BLANCHE SCHOFIELD    Poem Text                    
First Line: She did not hope to grace a royal ball
Last Line: Because she could not wear a coronet.
Subject(s): Apples; Dreams; Fruit; Philosophy & Philosophers; Nightmares


SILENCES, by OLIVIA MACIEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I become silences
Last Line: I enter and so do you
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Veracruz, Mexico


SILESIUS DREAMS, by CEES NOOTEBOOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dreams are true because they happen
Last Line: Looking is consumed into seeing
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep


SILLIES, by TOM SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: First was the betrothed who, with her parents
Last Line: I'd break my troth to dance to this dear tune
Subject(s): Dreams; Night


SILVER DREAM, by LILA HURLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: At dusk the wood bird's song continuous rang
Last Line: That night when summer dreamed a silver dream.
Subject(s): Birds; Dreams; Moon; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Songs


SINGING FAITH, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Darkness and doubt and despair
Last Line: Love? It bewitches the way.
Subject(s): Despair; Doubt; Dreams; Faith; Singing & Singers; Skepticism; Nightmares; Belief; Creed; Songs


SIREN, by MICHAEL WHITE    Poem Source                    
First Line: All night, lashed to the mast of dream, it seemed
Last Line: Toward shore (the body of gulf stream war and clear, %the seafloor sloping away below), I woke
Subject(s): Dreams; Sea


SISTER WATER: THE SEA MIST, by AMADO NERVO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mist is the dream of the water, which becomes light-gray
Last Line: And I said, 'let us extol the lord, sister mist!'
Subject(s): Dreams; Mist; Water


SITTING ON THIN GLASS, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Or a massive contact lens
Last Line: Fishing the air to track to me
Subject(s): Dreams


SLEEP, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O sleep, thou kindest minister to man
Last Line: Since death be but an endless, dreamless sleep?
Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Rest; Nightmares; Bedtime


SLEEP, by LYNNE KNIGHT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sleep was going south. It passed baja
Last Line: It was sweet enough for sleep
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Travel


SLEEP, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Poor pain-worn mortal, dost thou weep?
Last Line: God must be good. For god made sleep.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Night; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares; Bedtime


SLEEP, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The city sleeps; the fierce metallic roar
Last Line: They sleep.
Subject(s): Cities; Corpses; Dreams; Moon; Sleep; Urban Life; Cadavers; Nightmares


SLEEP, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: While sways the restless sea
Last Line: In dreams love hath no smart, -- sleep!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Dreams; Sea; Sleep; Nightmares; Ocean


SLEEP AT SEA, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sound the deep waters
Last Line: Of all their ways.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Dreams; Sea; Sleep; Vanity; Nightmares; Ocean


SLEEPING, by VERN RUTSALA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Though winners are rarely declared, this is an arduous contest similar
Last Line: Why do we hear so often the phrase, he died in his sleep?
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep


SLEEPING AND WAKING, by JANE BARLOW    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She said to herself - 'twas a girl ranging / pleasaunce and lawn
Last Line: Where desire of all hearts dwelleth deep in a dream of the dream.
Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Shadows; Sleep; Waking; Nightmares; Bedtime


SLEEPING WITH MY BROTHER, by CATHY SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like dreaming
Last Line: Close your eyes %and hold on
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Memory


SLIDING PICTURE, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: A dream is like before being born
Last Line: And left my footprints in the snow
Subject(s): Dreams


SLOTH'S DREAM, by ETHAN FISCHER    Poem Source                    
First Line: In heaven god herself
Last Line: Head, reminds him %'you have homework!'
Subject(s): Dreams; God; Heaven


SLOW DREAMS, by ROBERT WRIGLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: All my life I have been bothered by them
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


SLUMBER-SONG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sleep, little one! The twilight folds her gloom
Last Line: Of rapture perfected.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Sleep; Nightmares; Bedtime


SMALL DEFEATS: DEATH BY WATER, by GORDON WEAVER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Of deaths, a death by water, we are told
Last Line: Lulled within lives and deaths. We do not die
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Water


SMOKE, by LENARD M. BAZELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wild fantasies of blissful peace perturb my soul
Last Line: What a day!
Subject(s): Dreams; Peace; Smoking; Nightmares; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes


SNOWED UNDER, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of a thousand things that the year snowed under
Last Line: Your mantle of ermine, tell me, pray!
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Earth; Hope; Snow; Dead, The; Nightmares; World; Optimism


SOGNO DI MI STESSA COME PESCE, by DANUTA VIDALI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Da due lenze ero attratta
Last Line: Che non era mio
Subject(s): Dreams; Fishing And Fishermen; Identity


SOLDIERS HERE TO-DAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Soldiers and saviors of the homes
Last Line: And reap the harvest sure!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dreams; Freedom; Patriotism; Peace; Soldiers; War; Nightmares; Liberty


SOLITUDE, by MATTIE RICHARDS TYLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: O, mountain, wearing diadem of stars
Last Line: Dark mountain, where pale dogwood waits for spring.
Subject(s): Despair; Dreams; Mountains; Solitude; Nightmares; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness


SOME CALL IT CHILDHOOD: 2. LEAVE-TAKING; DETROIT; QUESTIONS...., by PETER COOLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Not yet the ecstasy, the iconic thrill
Last Line: My sister will not survive another winter
Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Sisters


SOME DREAMS HANG IN THE AIR, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Hang in the air like smoke / touching everything
Subject(s): Dreams


SOME DREAMS HANG IN THE AIR, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Hang in the air like smoke %touching everything
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep


SOMETHING WAKES YOU, by WILLIAM WITHERUP    Poem Source                    
Last Line: In the base of your spine
Subject(s): Dreams; Waking


SOMETIMES, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I take your hand
Last Line: A ship leaving for strange and distant countries
Subject(s): Dreams; Mediterranean Sea; Nightmares


SOMETIMES IN DREAMS, by J. PATRICK KELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sometimes in my dreams you are so hidden
Last Line: Like a storm falling in the violet light of dusk
Subject(s): Dreams


SOMETIMES SHE DREAMS, by LAURA TOHE    Poem Source                    
First Line: This woman %I call my mother
Last Line: Wide and open, %so much space to be filled
Subject(s): Dreams; Freedom; Grand Canyon, Arizona; Native Americans - Reservations; Women


SONG, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Over the long, the wide dark seas
Last Line: Far from the shore -- yea far!
Subject(s): Dreams; Sea; Love; Nightmares; Ocean


SONG, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I dream'd that I woke from a dream
Last Line: And that, my love, was thou.
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Nightmares


SONG, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How have I dreamed you, lady
Last Line: O lady, lady, does your chimney burn?
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Dreams; Love - Beginnings; Praise


SONG (10), by JOHN WILMOT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fair chloris in a pigsty lay
Last Line: She's innocent and pleased.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rochester, 2d Earl Of
Subject(s): Dreams; Love - Erotic; Nightmares


SONG (6), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is not for her even brow
Last Line: Whose love makes many hearts rejoice.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Love; Singing & Singers; Nightmares


SONG (8), by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh never another dream can be
Last Line: That early dream of ours.
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


SONG OF APPLE-TREES, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Song of apple-trees, honeysweet and murmurous
Last Line: Avalon of the heart's desire, avalon of the hidden shores.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Avalon (legend); Desire; Dreams; Hearts; Singing & Singers; Trees; Nightmares


SONG OF THE DREAM GARDEN, by HUMBERT WOLFE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pillowed on your thighs in a dream garden
Last Line: Sunset, moonlight - our song continues
Subject(s): Dreams


SONG OF THE EARTHLINGS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of the earth we came
Last Line: Old time has laid them low.
Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Life; Singing & Singers; Time; Trees; Nightmares; World; Songs


SONG OF THE SLEEPER, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sleeper rest quietly
Last Line: Sleep and forget!
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares


SONG WITH THE EYES CLOSED, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am the shape in sleep
Last Line: Is suffered of the wind
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep


SONG: DREAM-SINGING, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamt that I was singing
Last Line: No more a dream shall be!
Subject(s): Dreams; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Songs


SONG: SUNBEAM AND DEWDROP, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O sunbeam, o sunbeam
Last Line: Sparkling, starlike, everywhere.
Subject(s): Dreams; Shadows; Nightmares


SONGS FOR A WINTER FIRE: 6. WARM DAYS IN WINTER, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When warm days come in the middle of winter
Last Line: And you dream of a faun's, or wood-nymph's, fife.
Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Winter; Nightmares


SONGS FOR A WINTER FIRE: 7. ZERO, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hard of heart, winter has frozen the fields
Last Line: One dares not even think of lambs or fawns.
Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Stars; Winter; Nightmares


SONGS OF NIGHT TO MORNING: 3, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Yes, perhaps a dream it is -- but far too sweet for breaking
Last Line: When no thoughts thrill our stormy souls to lays.
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Nightmares


SONGS OF THE DAYS AND NIGHTS: SONGS OF THE SUMMER DAYS, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A glory on the chamber wall!
Last Line: Leads back to golden morn.
Subject(s): Calm; Day; Dreams; Life; Nature; Summer; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Nightmares


SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 26, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To-night I hear the rainbirds
Last Line: And leaves of the word unsaid.
Subject(s): Dreams


SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 56, by BLISS CARMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It was the tranquil hour
Last Line: Because we wished as one.
Subject(s): Dreams; Wishes


SONGS TO A.H.R.: 13. TRANSIENCY, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, let us watch that rock down in the tide
Last Line: Toward paradise!
Subject(s): Dreams; Home; Love; Thought; Nightmares; Thinking


SONGS TO A.H.R.: 7. SWALLOWS, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In a room that we love
Last Line: And happy swallows ranging.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Dreams; Love; Silence; Swallows; Nightmares


SONNET, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who, harnessed in his mail of self, demands
Last Line: This know the men who leave the world their names.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Dreams; Home; Poetry & Poets; Nightmares


SONNET, by THEOPHILE DE VIAU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night I dreamt that philis left her shroud
Last Line: "so now boast that you've made love to my soul."
Alternate Author Name(s): De Viau, Theophile
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Nightmares


SONNET: 1, by DIGBY MACKWORTH DOLBEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One night I dreamt that in a gleaming hall
Last Line: You laughed, and in great bitterness I woke.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dolben, Digby Augustus Stewart Mackworth
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


SONNET: 1. A DREAM, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Over known fields with an old friend in dream
Last Line: Syaing, 'I shall be here some day again'
Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep


SONNET: 23. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE, by JOHN MILTON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Methought I saw my late espoused saint
Last Line: I wak'd, she fled, and day brought back my night.
Variant Title(s): Katherine Milton;alcestis;sonnet: 19;sonnet 19;a Dream Of A Dead Wife
Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Immortality; Love - Marital; Mourning; Powell, Mary (d. 1652); Widows & Widowers; Woodcock, Katherine (1628-1658); Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Bereavement


SONNET: 5, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dreamt I to-day the dream of yesternight
Last Line: Truth is a dream, unless my dream is true.
Subject(s): Dreams; Truth; Nightmares


SONNET: 8, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As starts the absent dreamer, when a train
Last Line: The unlovely path that leads me toward the skies.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


SONNET: EGYPT, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fantastic sleep is busy with my eyes
Last Line: Is shut in the rosy outstretched hand of dawn.
Subject(s): Dreams; Egypt; Nightmares


SONNETS TO MIRANDA: 15, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I should have cleaved to her who did not dwell
Last Line: And now, sweet dreams, sweet lady! -- and good-bye!
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Heaven; Hell; Love; Nightmares; Paradise


SOPHIE'S BREASTS, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND    Poem Source                    
First Line: Were important to us seventh grade boys
Last Line: Perhaps, then, I'd believe and be satisfied
Subject(s): Adolescence; Boys; Country Life; Dreams; Women


SOR JUANA'S LAST DREAM, by GAIL WRONSKY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tar of my heart, the melancholia
Last Line: What's been said. %you may read it
Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Dreams; Faith; Freedom; Mexican American Families; Mothers; Silence; Women - Secluding; Women's Rights


SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 21, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I dreamt last night
Last Line: Looking at me angrily
Subject(s): Anger; Dreams


SPELL TO BE SAID BEFORE SLEEP, by JANE HIRSHFIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Each pot now hang bright
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares


SPELL TO BE SAID BEFORE SLEEP, by JANE HIRSHFIELD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Each pot now hang bright
Last Line: Guard them, o earth, in your travels
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep


SPIRAL TREES OR HOW TO INTERPRET A CHINESE MOVIE, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Just the two of us here together, outside, our eyes
Last Line: One's own %willing island, oki oki!
Subject(s): Dreams


SPIRIT OF SLEEP, by EDITH HASKELL TAPPAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now up the broad white path of dreams
Last Line: Be borne aloft on wings of prayer.
Subject(s): Dreams; Prayer; Sleep; Soul; Nightmares


SPOKEN AT A CASTLE GATE, by DONALD (GRADY) DAVIDSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Before you touch the bolt that locks this gate
Last Line: Perhaps you'll find, -- but never come back again.
Subject(s): Castles; Dreams; Nightmares


SPRING FANTASIES: 3. THE SYMBOL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What is the symbol underneath it all
Last Line: Is certified by joy and love and peace.
Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Love; Memory; Nature; Peace; Nightmares


SPRING FANTASIES: 6. AS FLUTES OF ARCADY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The purity of water and the peace
Last Line: And hero-deeds along a hundred hills!
Subject(s): Beauty; Children; Dreams; Poetry & Poets; Truth; Water; Childhood; Nightmares


ST. CAMPION AND THE MAID OF WICKLOW, by NEWMAN HOWARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A highland glen and one white cottage there
Last Line: "drink! You are thirsty, climbing all the day."
Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Heaven; Soul; Nightmares; Paradise


STANDING ON THE LONG LIE, by PAUL SNOEK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Standing on the long lie
Last Line: And of the sun the final tear
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep


STANZAS, by YANNIS PAPADIAMANTOPOULOS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Say not: life is one joyous festival
Last Line: By a young flower's loveliness.
Alternate Author Name(s): Moreas, Jean
Subject(s): Dreams; Hope; Life; Lips; Soul; Nightmares; Optimism


STANZAS, by MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT GODWIN SHELLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: O, come to me in dreams, my love
Last Line: And press mine eyelids with thy kiss.
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Nightmares


STANZAS WRITTEN AFTER SUCCESSIVE NIGHTS OF MELANCHOLY DREAMS, by MARY DARBY ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye airy phantoms, by whose pow'r
Last Line: Then let me sink to rest—and never wake again!
Subject(s): Dreams; Melancholy; Nightmares; Dejection


STAR DUST, by IRMA SCOTT LERICHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Little moon riding on in the dusk of the sky
Last Line: From the sea.
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Stars; Nightmares


STEAL NOT THE DREAM!, by D. SANIAL GILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: It is easy to strain upward when we know
Last Line: The stricken wretch will but the sooner die!
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


STEVENSON MAKES CONRAD WELCOME, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At last you come, my fellow of the seas
Last Line: "how conrad's company will color heaven!"
Subject(s): Dreams; Fates (mythology); Heaven; Sea; Truth; Nightmares; Paradise; Ocean


STILL PANDORA, by STAN PROPER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I woke suddenly %and saw moonlight
Last Line: This vision because %I had seen the future
Subject(s): Dreams; Future


STORM LULLABY, by JEANNETTE AUGUSTUS MARKS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Held in the refuge of your arms
Last Line: Deep is the breast of love to me.
Subject(s): Dreams; Sanctuaries; Storms; Nightmares


STORY, by JASON HEROUX    Poem Source                    
First Line: One summer night a stranger
Last Line: As if waking from a terrible dream
Subject(s): Dreams; Strangers


STRADA SAN GIOVANNI, by CARROLL RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis a quiet little by-way
Last Line: Shines in strada san giovanni.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll
Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Nightmares


STRANGE MEETING, by WILFRED OWEN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: It seemed that out of battle I escaped
Last Line: "let us sleep now. . . ."
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Hell; Regret; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; Nightmares; First World War


STRATUM III: BEATRICE, by THOMAS KLING    Poem Source                    
First Line: This hair is snow-white, this hair
Last Line: Of words: a hunger, deeply felt, for everything
Subject(s): Dreams; Mountain Climbing


STREET CORNER, by KRISTJANA GUNNARS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Three drunks shout in animated conversation about art
Last Line: What happens to the soul after hermiting the north
Subject(s): Dreams; Streets


SUCH STUFF AS DREAMS ARE MADE ON, by BERTON BRALEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He does his job without a single thrill
Last Line: The drudge without whom all our dreams are dust!
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


SUDS, by LULU MINERVA SCHULTZ    Poem Text                    
First Line: O would you dream of poems in a wash-tub
Last Line: Portraits clean cut, her swinging line of clothes.
Subject(s): Cleansing Agents; Dreams; Laundry & Laundering; Poetry & Poets; Detergents; Soap; Cleansing Compounds; Disinfection And Disinfectants; Nightmares


SUMMER NIGHT; VARIATIONS ON CERTAIN MELODIES: 3. APPASSIONATO, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Was it a distant flute
Last Line: Filled with thy mystery!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Dreams; Flutes; Longing; Nightmares


SUMMER'S LIPS ARE AGLOW, AFRESH, by ISAAC ROSENBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: I have put my dreams away
Subject(s): Dreams


SUNDAY IN NOVEMBER, by AUGUST KLEINZAHLER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And who were they all in your sleep last night
Last Line: Come morning.
Subject(s): Dreams; Reality; Nightmares


SUNSET, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have wandered towards the sunset in the silence of
Last Line: To the storm-swept reefs of danger in the dream-dissolving dawn.
Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Nightmares


SUNSET, by PHOEBE DANA KELLOGG    Poem Text                    
First Line: You have barred my vision, west-wind
Last Line: To swirl through the gate of space and gold.
Subject(s): Dreams; Evening; Vision; Nightmares; Sunset; Twilight


SUNSET AT KERAZUR, by LOUIS TIERCELIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Gray clouds, and blue clouds, and clouds all full of roses
Last Line: My gray dreams, and blue dreams, and dreams all full of roses.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


TA SUO XING, by SHEN YIXIU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dream broken, hope abandoned
Last Line: Orion slides, the moon falls, the darkness goes on forever
Subject(s): Absence; Brothers; Dreams; Grief


TAKING SPACE, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Walking as I was
Last Line: A certain thickening, a %wakening recoloring
Subject(s): Dreams


TAKING THE SUN, by TOM SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sun lies on my mouth
Last Line: The sun upon my mouth may reach %meridian, igniting
Subject(s): Dreams; Night


TALKING IN HER SLEEP, by JANET S. WONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am lying awake
Last Line: Red in the face %like a tomato
Subject(s): Dreams


TARQUIN'S DREAM, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When repose had come upon me and I yielded
Last Line: "that the old roman state shall flourish, and beyond all states endure"
Subject(s): Dreams;roman Empire;vision; Nightmares


TEA AND A DREAM, by RACHEL HADAS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One eye open, on its little island
Last Line: "the black box, emptied of its cargo, light,
Subject(s): Dreams; Merrill, James (1926-1995); Absence; Nightmares


TEA AND A DREAM, by RACHEL HADAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One eye open, on its little island
Last Line: The black box, emptied of its cargo, light, %rides again to a parnassian height
Subject(s): Dreams


TEARS IN SLEEP, by LOUISE BOGAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All night the cocks crew, under a moon like day
Last Line: From the night giving off flames, and the dark renewing.
Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs.
Subject(s): Sleep; Dreams; Nightmares


TEARS IN SLEEP, by LOUISE BOGAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All night the cocks crew, under a moon like day
Last Line: From the night giving off flames, and the dark renewing.
Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


TELEGRAM, by RAFAEL ESTRADA    Poem Source                    
First Line: A fading dream to pass the hours. And in her hands, slipping
Last Line: Also hid the fact that this very dream was the best part of her %existence
Subject(s): Dreams; Telegraph


TELLING SKY, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The woman called everyday goddess and I
Last Line: To anyone present
Subject(s): Dreams


TERMINAL, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Riding home from credulous blue domes,
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


THE ABANDONMENT, by WESLEY MCNAIR    Poem Text                 Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Climbing on top of him and breathing
Subject(s): Death - Children; Dreams; Death - Babies; Nightmares


THE AMULET, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Text                 Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Blackbirds are scribbling in the winter heat of the trees
Last Line: If I did.
Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Moon; Night; Sleep; Nightmares; Bedtime


THE ANCIENT CHANCE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Battle and fog and dream
Last Line: And the ancient chance is sweet!
Subject(s): Birth; Blindness; Death; Dreams; Eyes; Hearts; Child Birth; Midwifery; Visually Handicapped; Dead, The; Nightmares


THE AUSTRALIAN BELL-BIRD, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Toll -- toll. The bell-bird sounding far away
Last Line: Congratulant and clear estelle, estelle.
Subject(s): Bellbirds; Bells; Dreams; Home; Life; Love; Nightmares


THE AUTHORS DREAME TO THE LADY MARIE, COUNTESSE DOWAGER OF PEMBROOKE, by AEMILIA (BASSANO) LANYER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Me thought I pass'd through th' edalyan groves
Last Line: They all are purg'd by his divinity.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lanier, Emilia
Subject(s): Dreams; Herbert, Mary Sidney (1561-1621); Nightmares; Pembroke, Countess Of; Sidney, Mary (1561-1621); Dudley, Mary


THE AWAKENING, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The beauties of the world do master me
Last Line: And make my nest and sing the joy thereof.
Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Kisses; Love; Soul; Nightmares


THE AWAKENING, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamed that I was a rose
Last Line: That I had waited there for you.
Subject(s): Absence; Dreams; Hearts; Love; Passion; Waiting; Separation; Isolation; Nightmares


THE AWAKENING, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let me sleep on! I would not waken yet
Last Line: The quiet land of dreams.
Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Life; Memory; Soul; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness


THE BAGEL, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I stopped to pick up the bagel
Subject(s): Bagels; Dreams; Food & Eating; Nightmares


THE BAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Strange dreams of what I used
Last Line: Who either pity or despise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Future; Memory; Dead, The; Nightmares


THE BEAUTIFUL GARDENER OR THE CREATION OF EVE, by ERIC PANKEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I return to the dream as if to a hive
Last Line: Not a flare when the frame snags and burns
Subject(s): Dreams


THE BEAUTY OF GOOD DREAMS, by OWEN REDINGTON WASHBURN    Poem Text                    
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


THE BED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou, of all god's gifts the best
Last Line: Softest, safest, blessedest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Beds; Dreams; Sleep; Youth; Nightmares


THE BIRTHPLACE OF DREAMS, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Over the hills where the moon hangs low
Last Line: Of the place where my dreams have origin.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


THE BLEAK OF THE YEAR, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a time of subtle browns, and grays
Last Line: A mystery, the selah of the soul.
Subject(s): Dreams; Seasons; Sleep; Soul; Nightmares


THE BLOCK-HOUSE IN THE PARK, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The north wind storms my rugged front
Last Line: May all their wars be such as these!
Subject(s): Dreams; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Nightmares


THE BODING DREAMS, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In lover's ear a wild voice cried
Last Line: The murder's done.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Murder; Predestination; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares


THE BODY OF THE DREAM, by SUSAN WOOD                        Poet's Biography
First Line: It was evening and gold light fell
Subject(s): Dreams; Giotto Di Bondone (1276-1337); Mothers; Nightmares


THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND EYES: A DREAM, by LYN HEJINIAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A dream, still clinging like light to the dark, rounding
Last Line: Of life. Sleep is immediate and memory nothing
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


THE BRAND NEW STATUE OF LIBERTY; TO LEE IACOCCA (ANOTHER MICHIGAN BOY), by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I was commissioned in a dream by imanja
Last Line: So that she'll drop the torch to fondle the jewels.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Dreams; Statue Of Liberty; Nightmares


THE BRIDE, by AMBROSE BIERCE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse
Last Line: "am reason, and the other was a dream."
Subject(s): Reason; Drinks & Drinking; Rerality; Dreams; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Wine; Nightmares


THE BRIDE'S DREAM, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The stars are gleaming
Last Line: Through paths of pain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary
Subject(s): Brides; Dreams; Pain; Singing & Singers; Stars; Nightmares; Suffering; Misery


THE BROKER OF DREAMS, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bring not your dreams to me
Last Line: There is no cure but sleeping.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


THE BUGLES OF DREAMLAND, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Swiftly the dews of the gloaming are falling
Last Line: And the bugles of dreamland about us are calling.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Bugles; Death; Dreams; Future Life; Mysticism; Dead, The; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


THE BUILDER, by MAUD MORRISON HUEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Across the tinsel of my dreams
Last Line: Out of the memory of a dream?
Subject(s): Dreams; Time; Nightmares


THE CARPERS (AN ASPECT), by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Always the worm in the bud, the fly in the amber
Last Line: "carpers"" at odds with our age!"
Subject(s): Courage; Desire; Dreams; Mankind; Valor; Bravery; Nightmares; Human Race


THE CHILD IN THE GREAT WOOD, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is all much worse than I dreamed
Subject(s): Forests; Dreams; War; Woods; Nightmares


THE CITY OF LAISH, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Have you read of the orient people of / laish in the olden time
Last Line: Christ came and his presence declared it, so the dream may not utterly die.
Subject(s): Asia; Cities; Death; Dreams; Jesus Christ; War; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Urban Life; Dead, The; Nightmares


THE CLAIM OF KINDRED, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am not one, but many: murmuring through
Last Line: The passions of my kindred clasp me still!
Subject(s): Dreams; Evil; God; Soul; Nightmares


THE COMFORTERS, by LAURENCE HOUSMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To night the sleeper
Last Line: "o sorrow the sleeper!"
Subject(s): Comfort; Dreams; Night; Peace; Sleep; Nightmares; Bedtime


THE COMPANIONS, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How few are they that voyage through the night
Last Line: By hosts of unknown men.
Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Eyes; Flowers; Soul; Spring; Nightmares


THE CONFLICT OF CONVICTIONS, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On starry heights / a bugle wails the long recall
Last Line: Wisdom is vain, and prophesy.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Dreams; Hope; Past; United States - History; Wisdom; Dead, The; Nightmares; Optimism


THE CONTRABAND, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamed I held a poem and knew
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


THE COOUETRY OF MEN, by MAURICE MAGRE    Poem Text                    
First Line: We too, no less, have all our little arts
Last Line: Both hide their viewless hearts forevermore.
Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Life; Women; Nightmares


THE CRY OF THE DREAMER, by JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am tired of planning and toiling
Last Line: And a toiler dies in a day.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


THE DARK CHATEAU, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In dreams a dark chateau
Last Line: My dark chateau.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


THE DEAD BRIDE, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Within my circled arm she lay and
Last Line: But oh, the emptiness of dawn that breaks the dream!)
Subject(s): Brides; Death; Dreams; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Nightmares


THE DEAD SOUL, by ANNIE MATHESON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamed such a horrible dream last night
Last Line: The soul that's dead!'
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Dead, The; Nightmares


THE DEATH OF THE RACE CAR DRIVER, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have not slept for a week. / it is matchless-this feeling
Last Line: Sack for eternity.
Subject(s): Automobile Racing; Dreams; Insomnia; Memory; Sports; War; Race Car Driving; Nightmares; Sleeplessness


THE DEATH-CHILD, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She sits beneath the elder-tree
Last Line: Knoweth that he is dead.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Children; Death; Dreams; Tears; Childhood; Dead, The; Nightmares


THE DEMON DAWN, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The twilight came to soothe my furrowed care
Last Line: And shatter all the happiness I know?
Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Rest; Silence; Nightmares; Bedtime


THE DESTINY OF DREAMS, by S. CHARLES JELLICOE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I dreamed that heaven was builded
Last Line: May be of beauty too!
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


THE DIAMOND PERSONA, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamt tolstoi was mad and running away
Last Line: Above some fanciful future spring planting.
Subject(s): Dreams; Mysticism; Russia; Tolstoy, Leo (1828-1910); Nightmares; Soviet Union; Russians


THE DIFFERENCE, by ANGELO PHILIP BERTOCCI    Poem Text                    
First Line: You spoke one word
Last Line: I had grown old!
Subject(s): Aging; Dreams; Youth; Nightmares


THE DOVES, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: On yonder hillside, white with tombs
Last Line: But vanish at the break of day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon
Subject(s): Doves; Dreams; Palm Trees; Nightmares


THE DREAM, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "I dreamed that, buried in my fellow clay"
Last Line: "here all are equal, now thy case is mine: / this is my rotting-place, and that is thine"
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars;dreams;sleep; Nightmares


THE DREAM, by BRIAN" "BENDO [PSEUD.]    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twas when tacita hushed the noisy world
Last Line: "the thought of which did banish sleep away, / and lo! The cuckold with the strumpet lay"
Alternate Author Name(s): "bendo, Brian;
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


THE DREAM, by APHRA BEHN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The grove was gloomy all around
Last Line: For I was still a slave.
Alternate Author Name(s): Astraea; Behn, Afara; Behn, Apharra; Amis, Ayfara
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


THE DREAM, by LOUISE BOGAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O god, in the dream the terrible horse began
Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


THE DREAM, by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Such perfection
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


THE DREAM, by JOHN DONNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear love, for nothing less than thee
Last Line: Will dream that hope again, but else would die.
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Nightmares


THE DREAM, by IRVING FELDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once, years after your death, I dreamt
Subject(s): Dreams; Mothers; Death; Selfishness; Nightmares; Dead, The


THE DREAM, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A vision I dreamt of a lovely child
Last Line: In silence and all-uncaring.
Subject(s): Dreams; Kisses; Love; Silence; Nightmares


THE DREAM, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If you were here to-night, o my dead love
Last Line: In silence down the shadowy stream of life.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Nightmares


THE DREAM, by MAUD MORRISON HUEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, mother o' mine, did you dream a dream
Last Line: When the west wind haunts the hill.
Subject(s): Dreams; Mothers; Nightmares


THE DREAM, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night, my love, I dreamed of thee
Last Line: "god bless thee, love, -- good morning!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


THE DREAM, by FELIX LOPE DE VEGA CARPIO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To set my jealous soul at strife
Last Line: Yet dreams themselves allow me none.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lope De Vega
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


THE DREAM, by WINIFRED LUCAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Am I so bankrupt of delight
Last Line: As earthly, for myself to wear.
Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


THE DREAM, by EDWIN MARKHAM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, great it is to believe the dream
Last Line: "and say at the end, ""the dream is true!"
Subject(s): Dreams; Faith; Nightmares; Belief; Creed


THE DREAM, by LOLA RIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have a dream
Last Line: Where shall I pour my dream?
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawson, David, Mrs.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


THE DREAM, by THEODORE ROETHKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I met her as a blossom on a stem
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Nightmares


THE DREAM, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Rest, rest; the troubled breast
Last Line: A very dream of dreams.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Happiness; Life; Love; Dead, The; Nightmares; Joy; Delight


THE DREAM, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I woke to find my pillow wet
Last Line: Was I thy captive all o'erthrown?
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Love - Complaints; Tears; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness


THE DREAM, by MARJORIE ALLEN SEIFFERT    Poem Text                    
First Line: My ancestor, in early time
Last Line: Silence of air, alone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cypher, Angela; Hay, Elijah
Subject(s): Dreams; Eden; Evolution; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Nightmares


THE DREAM, by ELIZABETH OAKES PRINCE SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamed last night, that I myself did lay
Last Line: And we bow down in dread, o'ershadowed by death's wing!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Seba (e. Oakes), Mrs.; Oakes-smith, Elizabeth
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Earth; Graves; Grief; Dead, The; Nightmares; World; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness


THE DREAM, by THOMAS STANLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
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


THE DREAM, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O, if the world I make
Last Line: I have dreamed: let me wake!
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


THE DREAM, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In fairest garden wandered
Last Line: He in a dungeon lay.
Subject(s): Dreams; Kisses; Love; Nightmares


THE DREAM, by MRS. ROSS YOCOM    Poem Text                    
First Line: I had a dream the other night
Last Line: For the lowly nazarene of ancient days.
Subject(s): Dreams; Jesus Christ; Resurrection, The; Nightmares


THE DREAM (1), by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Me thought, (last night) love in an anger came
Last Line: Hony to salve, where the before did sting.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


THE DREAM (2), by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A lake in the head
Subject(s): Dreams; Drowning; Nightmares


THE DREAM (2), by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By dream I saw, one of the three
Last Line: Then juha weep, for I must dy.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


THE DREAM AND THE REALITY, by DOROTHY CAMERON    Poem Text                    
First Line: She stood, to dream a moment in the street
Last Line: To meet her lover in the tenement.
Subject(s): Dreams


THE DREAM OF A DREAMER, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Last night I dreamed that I
Last Line: Of one whose soul is dead
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;dreams;night; Nightmares;bedtime


THE DREAM OF A FIRE ENGINE, by KIMIKO HAHN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Without the sun filtered through closed eyelids,
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


THE DREAM OF A LACQUER BOX, by KIMIKO HAHN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I wish I knew the contents and I wish the contents
Subject(s): Mothers; Heritage; Dreams; Nightmares


THE DREAM OF DEATH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O gentle death, bow down and
Last Line: Forever on your loving breast.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Soul; Dead, The; Nightmares


THE DREAM OF DREAMS, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: However real it seem, / sleeping we or waking
Last Line: Life is a dream, a dream?
Subject(s): Dreams; Humanity; Life; Nightmares


THE DREAM OF SCIPIO, by PIETRO METASTASIO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, mighty offspring of emilius, come
Last Line: Your favoring grace—auspicious omen, hail!
Alternate Author Name(s): Trapassi, Pietro Antonio Domenico
Subject(s): Dreams; Fidelity; Fortune; Nightmares; Faithfulness; Constancy


THE DREAM OF THE CHILDREN, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The children awoke in their dreaming
Last Line: And half was never forgot.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Childhood; Nightmares


THE DREAM OF THE LITTLE PRINCESS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas a curious dream, goo
Last Line: Of the sandals of his feet!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dreams; Youth; Nightmares


THE DREAM OF THE ROPEMAKER'S SON, by RHYS CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The ropemaker's son to his father said
Last Line: And stars like dust of the road in his face.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


THE DREAM OF WAKING, by RANDALL JARRELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Something is there. And teacher here at home
Last Line: His life and their death: oh morning, morning
Subject(s): War; Death; Dreams; Dead, The; Nightmares


THE DREAM SONGS: 1, by JOHN BERRYMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Huffy henry hid the day,
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


THE DREAM SONGS: 29, by JOHN BERRYMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: There sat down, once, a thing on henry's heart
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


THE DREAM THAT CRACKED A WHIP, by FRANCES AIRTH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dream / you are too much
Last Line: For this frail strength.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


THE DREAM'S WISDOM, by MARILYN NELSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamed / mama came back
Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson
Subject(s): Mothers; Death; Dreams; Dead, The; Nightmares


THE DREAM-FOLLOWER, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A dream of mine flew over the mead
Last Line: And I whitely hastened away.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


THE DREAM-SELLER MAN, by EUGENIA STOUTENBURGH    Poem Text                    
First Line: The dream-seller came to the little by-street
Last Line: Go there, if you'd sell any dreams today.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


THE DREAM. AN EPISTLE TO MR. DRYDEN, by ELIZABETH THOMAS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When yet a child, I read great virgil o'er
Last Line: But envies those that in your presence stand.
Subject(s): Dreams; Dryden, John (1631-1700); Poetry & Poets; Nightmares


THE DREAMER, by HUGH FRANCIS BLUNT    Poem Text                    
First Line: He made but dreams; for this they laughed him down
Last Line: God's tax of death on earth-idolatry.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


THE DREAMER, by DOROTHY COLLINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: When he goes down to his sleep
Last Line: God! To the dreamer be kind.
Subject(s): Dreams; Wellesley College; Nightmares


THE DREAMER, by MARY ANN H. DODD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Heart of mine, why art thou dreaming!
Last Line: Father, give that peace to me!
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


THE DREAMER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Peace to thy dreams! Thou art slumbering now
Last Line: How know we if under the wings of death?
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): De Quincey, Thomas (1785-1859); Dreams; Nightmares


THE DREAMER, by SHAEMAS O'SHEEL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He whom a dream hath possessed knoweth no more of doubting
Last Line: And rides god's battlefield in a flashing and golden car.
Alternate Author Name(s): Shield, Shaemus; O Sheel, Seamus
Subject(s): Dreams; Religion; Nightmares; Theology


THE DREAMER, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Throughout his span of argent days
Last Line: To fairer, freer dreams.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


THE DREAMER, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lone man gazed and gazed upon his gold
Last Line: A gaunt and hairy man with wolfish eyes.
Subject(s): Dreams; God; Nightmares


THE DREAMER IN ME, by JAMES OPPENHEIM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The dreamer in me keeps on dreaming though
Last Line: Yet my friend and I go on talking as if there were nothing strange in it at all.
Subject(s): Dreams; Reality; Nightmares


THE DREAMING BOY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Sweet are thy dreams, thou happy, careless boy
Last Line: From hands that come to cage them till they die.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


THE DREAMING CHILD, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And is there sadness in thy dreams, my boy?
Last Line: Start from the dream-like wilderness of life?
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Childhood; Nightmares


THE DREAMING MAN, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O dreaming man, why dost thou go
Last Line: I hold the little earth -- and dream.
Subject(s): Dreams; God; Nightmares


THE DREAMS, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I am sleeping I go in dreams
Last Line: When I wake from my dreams, I wake to weep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Friendship; Life; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares


THE DREAMS AHEAD, by EDWIN CARLILE LITSEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What would we do in this world of ours
Last Line: The dreams -- and faith -- and love!
Alternate Author Name(s): Litsey, E. Carl Edwin Carlile
Subject(s): Courage; Dreams; Valor; Bravery; Nightmares


THE DREAMS OF LONG AGO, by IMBERT GALLOIX    Poem Text                    
First Line: Mine was a vernal world, delectable with flowers
Last Line: -- forget, my soul, the dreams of long ago!
Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Nature; Past; Nightmares


THE DREAMS OF THE DREAMER, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Till it ceases to beat
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): Dreams


THE DREAMS OF WILD HORSES, by THOMAS MCGRATH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Night and full moon
Last Line: Moonlight weathering in the dry corn
Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Horses; Prairies; Nightmares; Plains


THE DREAMS THAT CAME TRUE, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw in a vision once, our mother-sphere
Last Line: "thy kingdom come."
Subject(s): Dreams; God; Immortality; Night; Vision; Nightmares; Bedtime


THE DREAMS WE WAKE FROM, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Are dams bursting oceans suddenly swallowed
Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Reality; Nightmares


THE DYING DECADENT, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And when the evening came he fell asleep
Last Line: Calling on things that he had long forgot.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Dreams; Immortality; Sleep; Nightmares


THE DYING POET, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Between the motionless and silent grass
Last Line: Falls, and I shall not see another morn.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Earth; Kisses; Life; Loss; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Nightmares; World


THE ECLIPSE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I said, tonight is her plenilune
Last Line: "and ""the law is the law,"" the astronomers said!"
Subject(s): Dreams; Eclipses; Love; Moon; Sea; Soul; Nightmares; Ocean


THE ENCHANTED VALLEYS, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By the gate of sleep we enter the enchanted valleys
Last Line: It is past: there is no dawn: no to-morrow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Future Life; Time; Dead, The; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


THE END OF AN ETHNIC DREAM, by JAY WRIGHT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cigarettes in my mouth
Last Line: My brain blistered.
Subject(s): Aging; Dreams; Conduct Of Life; Nightmares


THE ENIGMA, by ANNE STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Falling to sleep last night in a deep crevasse
Subject(s): Dreams; Lambs; Nightmares


THE ETERNAL ADVENTURE: BOOK 1, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: I felt a limit should be set to these joys that rouse such envious strife
Last Line: * * * * * * *
Subject(s): Adventure & Adventurers; Dreams; Life; Love; Nightmares


THE ETERNAL FEMININE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For ever shall she beckon. Men may prate
Last Line: Yet ancient as the moaning of the sea!
Subject(s): Dreams; Light; Sea; Time; Nightmares; Ocean


THE EXCHANGE, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am watching a woman swim below the surface
Subject(s): Dreams; Relationships; Swimming & Swimmers; Women; Nightmares; Swimmers


THE FAIR WATERS OF DREAM, by MARIE DE REGNIER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By the fair waters of asia, in a green countryside
Last Line: The stroke gone by.
Alternate Author Name(s): D'houville, Gerard; Heredia, Marie De
Subject(s): Dreams; Fountains; Shadows; Water; Waves; Nightmares


THE FATAL DREAM; OR, THE UNHAPPY FAVOURITE; AN ELEGY, by EMANUEL COLLINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Weeping melpomene assist my lays
Last Line: Forgotten by his fond penelope.'
Subject(s): Courtship; Dreams; Grief; Melancholy; Mourning; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Dejection; Bereavement


THE FINISHED HOUSE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The finished house. The realized dream of those
Last Line: O god of hosts! Amen.
Subject(s): Blessings; Dreams; Houses; Prayer; Nightmares


THE FIRST DREAMER, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He woke to clasp the vision of his dream
Last Line: Each might in god behold the other's heart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


THE FOUNTAIN OF SHADOWY BEAUTY; A DREAM, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: I would I could weave in
Last Line: With thee now I go.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Nightmares


THE GARDEN, by EMMA CATHERINE (MANLY) EMBURY    Poem Text                    
First Line: O what a world of beauty lies within
Last Line: With a most tremulous stillness.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ianthe
Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Eden; Gardens & Gardening; Youth; Nightmares


THE GHOST, by HERMANN HAGEDORN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One whom I loved and never can forget
Last Line: She shook her head bewildered, and was gone.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


THE GHOST'S LEAVETAKING, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Enter the chilly no-man's land of about
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


THE GLASS ESSAY, by ANNE CARSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I can hear little chicks inside my dream
Last Line: It walked out of the light
Subject(s): Love – Unrequited; Psychiatry; Mothers & Daughters; Fathers; Home Life; Women's Rights; Solitude; Alzheimer's Disease; Dreams; Anger; Love – Nature Of; Love – Loss Of; Bronte, Emily (1818-1848); Bronte, Charlotte (1816-1855); Man-woman Relationships


THE GRAY INN, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And at the last he came to a gray inn
Last Line: He knew his hand would do an evil thing.
Subject(s): Dreams; Gambling; Greed; Nightmares; Wagering; Betting; Avarice; Cupidity


THE GREY COUNTRY, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamt a dream on november night
Last Line: Hiding them warm in her blue cloak.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Caregivers; Comfort; Dreams; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Purgatory; Women - Bible; Nightmares; Virgin Mary


THE HARMLESS LUXURY, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Her skies, of whom I sing, are hung
Last Line: The dreamers, who believe their dreams
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


THE HAUNTING DREAM, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night a melancholy dream
Last Line: And that which thou mayst never see!
Subject(s): Dreams; Lament; Nightmares


THE HEAVEN OF DREAMS, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Into the sunset far over the lea
Last Line: "and love a moon-white steed."
Subject(s): Dreams; Heaven; Love Affairs; Romance; Sleep; Nightmares; Paradise


THE HOOSIER IN EXILE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The hoosier in exile - a toast
Last Line: "the hoosier in exile!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Exiles; Nightmares; World


THE HOROSCOPE POEMS: JANUARY24TH, by ANNE SEXTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Originality is important
Last Line: Or maybe you did
Subject(s): Women; Dreams; Hope


THE HOST OF THE AIR, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O'driscoll drove with a song
Last Line: And never was piping so gay.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Variant Title(s): The Folk Of The Air
Subject(s): Infidelity; Dreams


THE HOSTEL OF SLEEP, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis the hostel of sleep. Come in, come in!
Last Line: As you lie at rest in the chamber blue.
Subject(s): Dreams; Knights & Knighthood; Love; Sleep; Nightmares


THE HOUSE, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes, on waking, she would close her eyes
Subject(s): Houses; Dreams; Love - Loss Of; Nightmares


THE HOUSE OF DREAMS, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I built a little house of dreams
Last Line: And passed it by.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Dreams; Truth; Nightmares


THE HOUSE OF DUST: 1, by CONRAD AIKEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun goes down in a cold pale flare of light
Last Line: And hew rock out of the earth, and build them again.
Subject(s): Dreams; Evening; Faces; Rain; Nightmares; Sunset; Twilight


THE HOUSE OF FAME, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: God turne us every drem to goode!
Last Line: A man of gret auctorite. . . .
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


THE IDEAL, by ANNE CHARLOTTE LYNCH BOTTA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A sad, sweet dream! It fell upon my soul
Last Line: To welcome my approach to thine own spirit-land.
Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Life; Longing; Nature; Nightmares


THE IDEAL FOUND, by ANNE CHARLOTTE LYNCH BOTTA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I've met thee, whom I dared not hope to meet
Last Line: What there thou ever wert, a beautiful, bright dream!
Subject(s): Dreams; Faith; Life; Love; Nightmares; Belief; Creed


THE IMMORTAL RESIDUE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Love and the lofty heart and tears - these three
Last Line: Hold back their portion due of tears and dark.
Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Socrates (470-399 B.c.); Tears; Nightmares


THE INSTRUCTION MANUAL, by JOHN ASHBERY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: As I sit looking out of a window of the building
Last Line: Rights reserved.
Subject(s): Boredom; Dreams; Guadalajara; Imagination; Ennui; Nightmares; Fancy


THE ISLE, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All day the island-world had been
Last Line: Nor any lover own.
Subject(s): Dreams; Islands; Nightmares


THE ISLE OF LOST DREAMS, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is an isle beyond our ken
Last Line: Drift through the isle beyond our ken.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Dreams; Tears; Time; Nightmares


THE IVORY GATE OF DREAMS, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A continent of silver-gray and rose
Last Line: Where deathless roses gleam like fragrant flames.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Graves; Mystery; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares; Tombs; Tombstones


THE KING, by MARK STRAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I went to the middle of the room and called out
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


THE KING OF DREAMS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some must delve when the dawn is nigh
Last Line: Every man is a king of dreams!
Subject(s): Dreams; Self-gratification; Nightmares


THE KINGDOM OF 'IF', by HERBERT KAUFMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a wonderful country, the king- / dom of if
Last Line: From the heart-breaking valley of dreams.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


THE KNIGHTS AT RINGSTEAD: 4. THE KNIGHT BEAUCLERC TO THE LADY GLORIA, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When that the queen with all her maids came / singing
Last Line: Farewell! Farewell! But I have loved you best.
Subject(s): Beauty; Courts & Courtiers; Crowns; Dreams; Flowers; Knights & Knighthood; Love; Roses; Nightmares


THE LABYRINTH, by EDWIN MUIR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Since I emerged that day from the labyrinth
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


THE LADY UNKNOWN, by ALEXANDER (ALEKSANDR) ALEXANDROVICH BLOK    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Of evenings hangs above the restaurant
Last Line: I also know: truth lies in wine.
Variant Title(s): The Stranger
Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Dreams; Friendship; Imagination; Shadows; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Nightmares; Fancy


THE LADY'S DREAM, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lady lay in her bed
Last Line: Would dream the lady's dream!
Subject(s): Dreams; Remorse; Nightmares


THE LAND OF DREAMS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O spirit-land! Thou land of dreams!
Last Line: Till I go where the beautiful melts not away!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


THE LAND OF HOPE-TO-BE, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There's a way to happiness
Last Line: By the sleepy streams.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


THE LAST CAST; THE ANGLER'S APOLOGY, by ANDREW LANG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Just one cast more! How many a year
Last Line: Mourned in the latest minstrel's ear!
Subject(s): Dreams; Fish & Fishing; Nightmares; Anglers


THE LAST MAN: A DREAM, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night I looked into a dream; 'twas drawn
Last Line: Was of the northern hurricane _____
Subject(s): Cupid; Death; Dreams; Sleep; Eros; Dead, The; Nightmares


THE LAST MAN: DREAM OF DYING, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Shivering in fever, weak, and parched to sand
Last Line: Are these thy dreams!
Variant Title(s): The Last Man; Fragment
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares


THE LAST MAN: RECOGNITION, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Soft! Stand away! Those features -- do not stir
Last Line: But I shall never dream of thee again.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


THE LAST MUSTER, by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: All day we had driven the starving sheep to the scrub where the axes ply
Last Line: And I woke to the red burned acres, and knew that I had but dreamed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ogilvie, Will Henry
Subject(s): Cattle; Dreams; Drovers; God; Greed; Nightmares; Avarice; Cupidity


THE LAST PORTAGE, by WILLIAM HENRY DRUMMOND    Poem Text                    
First Line: I'm sleeping las' night w'en I dream a dream
Last Line: Is goin' away on de morning light?
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


THE LESSON, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The first time that I dreamed, we were in flight
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


THE LIGHT OF DREAM, by FREDERIC FAIRCHILD SHERMAN    Poem Text                    
First Line: When evening comes upon the skies
Last Line: A dream to light the way!
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


THE LILY, by STEPHEN PHILLIPS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamed that after wandering long I came
Last Line: And as I walked beside her, I awoke.
Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Lilies; Nightmares


THE LITTLE OLD WOMEN; TO VICTOR HUGO, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the winding folds of old capitals
Last Line: On whom the dreaful claw of god lies heavy?
Subject(s): Dreams; Old Age; Nightmares


THE LONESOME DREAM, by LISEL MUELLER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the america of the dream
Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel
Subject(s): Dreams; United States; Race Awareness; Nightmares; America


THE LOOM OF DREAMS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I broider the world upon a loom
Last Line: Sits weaving worlds out of loneliness?
Subject(s): Dreams; Solitude; Weavers And Weaving; Nightmares; Loneliness


THE LOST BATTLE, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is not over yet -- the fight
Last Line: Courage, it is not over yet.
Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Dreams; Names; Night; War; Dead, The; Nightmares; Bedtime


THE LOST KISS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I put by the half-written poem
Last Line: Cry up to me over it all.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Daughters; Dreams; Kisses; Love; Poetry & Poets; Nightmares


THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 15, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Because I dream
Last Line: Are only dreams
Subject(s): Dreams; Reality


THE LOVER HAVING DREAMED OF ENJOYING HIS LOVE, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Unstable dream, according to the place
Last Line: Such mocks of dreams they turn to deadly pain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 79;sonnet: 27
Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Dreams; Pain; Dead, The; Nightmares; Suffering; Misery


THE LOVER SHOWETH HOW HE IS FORSAKEN, by THOMAS WYATT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: They flee from me that sometime did me seek
Last Line: I would fain know what she hath deserved.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas
Variant Title(s): Remembrance;vixi Puellis Nuper Idoneus;they Flee From Me;ballade: 2;the Lover Showeth How He Is Abandoned Of Such As He Onetime Enjoyed
Subject(s): Despair; Dreams; Falcons; Love; Love - Loss Of; Nightmares


THE LOVER TELLS OF THE ROSE IN HIS HEART, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old
Last Line: My heart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Variant Title(s): Aedh Tells Of The Rose In His Heart
Subject(s): Roses; Dreams


THE MACHINATIONS OF THE MIND, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The car crash we passed when I was five
Last Line: What spins and claws in our rearview mirrors.
Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Habits; Housekeeping; Memory; Order; Reason; Selectivity; Violence; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


THE MALICE-DANCE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: An intolerable singing
Last Line: Round that dial of the moon!
Subject(s): Beauty; Dancing & Dancers; Death; Dreams; Love; Moon; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Nightmares


THE MAN WHO FELL NAKED FROM PARADISE, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Silence, the hay is sweet, and 'tis the hour of grain
Last Line: Breathed by the deity.
Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Happiness; Heaven; Life; Nightmares; Joy; Delight; Paradise


THE MAN WHO KNEW, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dreamer visioned life as it might be
Last Line: His song unsung, they found their dreamer -- dead.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


THE MANDOLIN, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tinkle-trink, tinkle-trink, trinkle-trinkle, trink!
Last Line: Trink!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Dreams; Kisses; Rome, Italy; Silence; Sleep; Nightmares


THE MATIN-SONG OF FRIAR TUCK, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If souls could sing to heaven's high king
Last Line: Te deum! Te deum laudamus!
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Dreams; Earth; Soul; Dead, The; Nightmares; World


THE MESSAGE, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From side to side the sufferer tossed
Last Line: Fell back, sir, and was dead.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Mothers; Homecoming; Dreams; Family Life; Longing; Death; Nightmares; Relatives; Dead, The


THE MONODY OF ISLA THE SINGER, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Is it time to let the hour rise and go forth as
Last Line: And hear her voice like mournful bells crying on the wind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Aging; Dreams; Mourning; Time; Youth; Nightmares; Bereavement


THE MOONLIGHT'S DREAM, by ROBERT PENN WARREN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why did I wake at night, all the house at rest?
Subject(s): Family Life; Sleep; Dreams; Night; Relatives; Nightmares; Bedtime


THE MULBERRY TREE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O, it's many's the scenes which is dear
Last Line: They go racin' acrost fer the mulberry tree.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Mulberry Trees; Youth; Nightmares


THE NEAREST DREAM RECEDES, UNREALIZED, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That brews that rare variety!
Subject(s): Dreams


THE NIGHT MIRROR, by JOHN HOLLANDER                        Poet's Biography
First Line: What it showed was always the same
Subject(s): Dreams; Mirrors; Nightmares


THE OLD CHIMNEYPIECE, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Outside fall the snowflakes lightly
Last Line: And the kitten's burnt, alas!
Subject(s): Chimney Sweepers & Chimneys; Dreams; Fire; Nightmares


THE OLD MAN DREAMS, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O for one hour of youthful joy!
Last Line: To please the gray-haired boys.
Subject(s): Classmates; Dreams; Marriage; Old Age; Schoolmates; Nightmares; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE OLD SAINT, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The day is gone, the solemn night draws down
Last Line: God's city with the mansions of the blest.
Subject(s): Dreams; Old Age; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Rest; Sleep; Nightmares


THE OLD TRUNDLE-BED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O the old trundle-bed where I
Last Line: Once bowed o'er my own in the old trundle-bed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Beds; Dreams; Sleep; Stars; Nightmares


THE ORDER OF THE STAR OF INDIA (2), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamed - methought I stood upon a strand
Last Line: Of sunrise broke and yet fulfill'd my dream.
Subject(s): Dreams; India; Nightmares


THE OUTCAST'S DREAM, by OLIVE BELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: From morn till noon the golden glow
Last Line: Some old home song or old love strain?
Subject(s): Dreams; Pennsylvania; Nightmares


THE PALACE, by HUMBERT WOLFE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wilt thou? Let us make a dream
Last Line: But you will open the door.
Subject(s): Dreams; Halloween; Nightmares


THE PARALLAX MONOGRAPH FOR RODIN, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamt, last night, of your stone cabinet, porte de l'enfer
Last Line: "it's hell, of course."
Subject(s): Dreams; Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917); Sculpture & Sculptors; Secrets; Sex; Nightmares


THE PASSING SHOW, by AMBROSE BIERCE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I know not if it was a dream. I viewed
Last Line: A wolf sat howling on a broken tomb.
Subject(s): Cities; Death; Dreams; Sleep; Soul; Urban Life; Dead, The; Nightmares


THE PATHS OF PEACE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He would have holiday - outworn
Last Line: Of all his loveliest dreams!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dreams; Forests; Peace; Spring; Youth; Nightmares; Woods


THE PHANTOM FLEET, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sunset lingered in the pale green west
Last Line: Then -- that high fleet of stars led on the night.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; England; Evening; Peace; Soul; Dead, The; Nightmares; English; Sunset; Twilight


THE PITCHER, by YUAN CHEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: I dreamt I climbed to a high, high plain
Last Line: Streamed from my eyes and fell on the collar of my dress.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wei-chih
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 137, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night I dreamt I went home
Last Line: And my temples weren't their old color
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Dreams; Homecoming; Marriage; Nightmares; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


THE POET IN THE EAST, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The poet came to the land of the east
Last Line: And the dream deceives no more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Dreams; Poetry & Poets; Soul; Sun; Nightmares


THE POET'S DREAM, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sunset streaming o'er the river
Last Line: All his soul and mind doth fill!
Subject(s): Dreams; Poetry & Poets; Rhyme; Nightmares


THE POET'S JOURNAL: A SYMBOL, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Heavy, and hot, and gray
Last Line: Thou dust punish us with blessing!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Life; Time; Dead, The; Nightmares


THE POET'S JOURNAL: A WOMAN, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She is a woman: therefore, I a man
Last Line: But man's true mother, and his equal wife.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Dreams; Faith; Life; Love; Women; Nightmares; Belief; Creed


THE POET'S JOURNAL: AUTUMNAL DREAMS, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the maple turns to crimson
Last Line: In the autumns of the past!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Autumn; Dreams; Life; Past; Seasons; Fall; Nightmares


THE POET'S JOURNAL: THE VISION, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She came, long absent from my side
Last Line: And still, in passing, smiled.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Peace; Singing & Singers; Vision; Nightmares


THE PROFFERED CUP, by MARY SINTON LEITCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night across the meadows of a dream
Last Line: And so . . . Still singing . . . Passed into the night.
Subject(s): Cups; Dreams; Fountain Of Youth; Immortality; Sacrifices; Nightmares


THE QUESTION, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: May darkness write the words dawn must not read?
Last Line: But dare not breathe their message to the rose.
Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Nightmares; Bedtime


THE REALMS OF GOLD, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the palms of san diego
Last Line: A song that had out-soared death.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Gold; Poetry & Poets; San Diego, California; Dead, The; Nightmares


THE REGAL DREAM, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas on the day that bosworth field was won
Last Line: Eternally to mourn a matchless queen.
Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dreams; Grief; Mourning; Prophecy & Prophets; Story-telling; War; Dead, The; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement


THE REGRET, by LEVI BISHOP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If inclination ruled the hour
Last Line: Levi bishop.
Subject(s): Dreams; Happiness; Regret; Nightmares; Joy; Delight


THE REPUBLIC OF DREAMS, by PALMER. MICHAEL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She lay so still that
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


THE RETURN, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He stood above the well-known shore
Last Line: No, never, never, more.
Subject(s): Dreams; Past; Nightmares


THE REVELATION, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I awoke happy, the house
Last Line: For that quiet look --
Subject(s): Dreams


THE REWARD OF SONG, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why do we make our music?
Last Line: And love is its one reward.
Subject(s): Dreams; Fame; Love; Music & Musicians; Rewards; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Reputation


THE RIDE, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: The horse beneath me seemed
Subject(s): Dreams; Horseback Riding; Storms; Nightmares


THE RING-DOVE, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Mid beechy umbrage, bosky dell
Last Line: Brief solace for my wounded mind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Love; Memory; Shadows; Nightmares


THE RIVER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a mighty river that I knew
Last Line: In that dim land that lies beyond our dreams.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Rivers; Swimming & Swimmers; Dead, The; Nightmares; Swimmers


THE ROMAUNT OF KING MORDAMEER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ho! Did ye hear of mordameer
Last Line: And met him face to face.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Dreams; Fantasy; Sleep; Nightmares


THE ROMAUNT OF MARGRET, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I plant a tree whose leaf
Last Line: Margret, margret.
Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Longing; Courts & Courtiers; Dreams; Failure; Longing; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Nightmares


THE ROSE OF FLAME, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, fair immaculate rose of the world, rose of my dream, my rose!
Last Line: O fair immaculate rose of the world, rose of my dream, my rose!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Peace; Roses; Salvation; Spiritual Life; Nightmares


THE ROSE OF THE WORLD, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream?
Last Line: Before her wandering feet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Creation; Dreams; God


THE ROSE ON THE WIND, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dip and swing!
Last Line: Lift and sway!
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


THE ROSE-LADY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I dream that you are kisses allah
Last Line: For having kissed the dust beneath my feet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; God; Kisses; Roses; Nightmares


THE SAINTS, by ROBERT CREELEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Heaven won't have to do with its multitudes
Subject(s): Dreams; Evil; Nightmares


THE SEARCH FOR LEAVEN, by ALTER ABELSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like a tender, loving maiden
Last Line: Often dreaming on the broom.
Subject(s): Absence; Dreams; Jews; Separation; Isolation; Nightmares; Judaism


THE SECRET PLACE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When I shake off the outer things
Last Line: I fare me forth my fate to greet.
Subject(s): Dreams; Fate; Love; Rhyme; Soul; Nightmares; Destiny


THE SERENADE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The midnight is not more bewildering
Last Line: Like some vast bubble blown of summer noon.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Roses; Singing & Singers; Summer; Nightmares


THE SEVEN OLD MEN; TO VICTOR HUGO, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Teeming city, full of dreams, where in broad / daylight the specter grips
Last Line: Without masts, on a monstrous, shoreless sea!
Subject(s): Aging; Dreams; Nightmares


THE SHEARER'S DREAM, by HENRY HERTZBERG LAWSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, I dreamt I shore in a shearin'-shed, and it was a dream of joy
Last Line: When I woke with my head in the blazin' sun to find 'twas a shearer's dream.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


THE SIGN: 2, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: But often at night something asks
Last Line: And the snake coiled bleeding at its center.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Nightmares; Bedtime


THE SINGING FLOWER, by GONG PEIYU    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am already a singing flower
Last Line: Your singing flower.
Alternate Author Name(s): Shu Ting; Shu Ding
Subject(s): China - Democracy; Chinese Literature; Dreams; Poetry & Poets; Sea; Water; Nightmares; Ocean


THE SISTERS' DREAM, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She sleeps! But not the free and sunny sleep
Last Line: Where, where should sisters love, if not on high?
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Dreams; Sisters; Nightmares


THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 92, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Who, waking as from sleep, bewilder'd gazed
Last Line: O speak! For thy soft eyes compassion waken.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Memory; Nightmares


THE SKY-GYPSY, by WALTER BARDECK    Poem Text                    
First Line: I long / to sweep the sky
Last Line: On some strange shore.
Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Seashore; Nightmares; Bedtime; Beach; Coast; Shore


THE SLEEP OF SIGISMUND, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The doom'd king pacing all night through the windy fallow
Last Line: And their children after them.
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Dreams; Love; Marriage; Night; Sleep; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Nightmares; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bedtime


THE SLEEPER, by JESSICA NELSON NORTH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O heavy breather in the surf of sleep
Last Line: My wife.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macdonald, Reed I., Mrs.
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Sleep; Nightmares


THE SLEEPERS, by SYLVIA PLATH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No map traces the street
Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs.
Subject(s): Sleep; Dreams; Nightmares


THE SOLDIER BOY'S DREAM, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A soldier boy lay dreaming
Last Line: Of liberty, new found.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine
Subject(s): American Civil War; Dreams; Freedom; Soldiers; United States - History; Nightmares; Liberty


THE SOLDIER'S DREAM, by THOMAS CAMPBELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our bugles sang truce, - for the night-cloud had lowered
Last Line: And the voice in my dreaming ear melted away.
Subject(s): Dreams; Home; Soldiers; War; Nightmares


THE SONG OF FIONULA, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sleep, sleep, brothers dear, sleep and dream
Last Line: To sleep and dream, ah, that is well indeed!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Brothers; Comfort; Death; Dreams; Sleep; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Nightmares


THE SONG OF YESTERDAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: But yesterday / I looked away
Last Line: Of glory gleam the days of yore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Past; Nightmares


THE SOWER, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Over the sunset lands
Last Line: Sowing the dreams of men!
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


THE SPHINX, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I know all about the sphinx
Last Line: She was just cut out for that!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dreams; Egypt; Silence; Sphinx; Statues; Nightmares


THE STALLION OF NIGHT, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the soft, gray-breasted even like a carrier-dove / goes freed
Last Line: Who stamps at the fords of the starlight, and neighs at the gates of the moon!
Subject(s): Dreams; Heaven; Moon; Night; Silence; Nightmares; Paradise; Bedtime


THE STAR'S MONUMENT; CONCLUDING PART OF A DISCOURSE ON FAME, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If there be memory in the world to come
Last Line: That gaze up dying into alien skies.
Subject(s): Dreams; Fame; Life; Love; Memory; Monuments; Poetry & Poets; Nightmares; Reputation


THE STAR-HANDS PLAY THE HARP OF NIGHT, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: As they draw their trains of dreams across the pools of sleep
Subject(s): Dreams


THE STUDENT; A FANTASIA, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sat the student alone in his chamber
Last Line: The worship and praise of the sire!
Subject(s): Dreams; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Youth; Nightmares


THE SUSQUEHANNA AND THE DELAWARE, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of where or how, I nothing know
Last Line: Beside the susquehanna and along the delaware.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Dreams; Rivers; Travel; Nightmares; Journeys; Trips


THE SWALLOW, by ANACREON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Foolish prater, what dost thou
Last Line: Tho' men say thou bring'st the spring.
Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea
Subject(s): Dreams; Swallows; Nightmares


THE SWISS COTTAGE, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye gastric graces of pall mall
Last Line: Is bright illumination.
Subject(s): Dreams; Fate; Youth; Nightmares; Destiny


THE TEA TRADER, by DANIEL MACINTYRE HENDERSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Jackson at his counter packing tea
Last Line: In mcconnell's grocery store!
Subject(s): Dreams; Food & Eating; Grocers; Tea; Nightmares


THE THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 14, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You alone, / a white robe over your naked body
Subject(s): Bodies; Desire; Dreams; Past; Nightmares


THE TIME OF DREAMS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: What sweet, what happy days had I
Last Line: When dreams made time eternity!
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


THE TOMBLESS MAN; A DREAM, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I woke from sleep at midnight; all was dark
Last Line: And the glad waters murmuring to the sun.
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Calm; Dreams; Silence; Sleep; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Nightmares


THE TREMOLO, by RAY CLARKE ROSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I have seen her to-night in a vision
Last Line: I doubt, in distress.
Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Love - Unrequited; Man-woman Relationships; Nightmares; Male-female Relations


THE TRYST OF SOULS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Low hung the moon, the wind was still
Last Line: Till stars and shadows yield to day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Fathers; Dead, The; Nightmares


THE TWO DREAMS, by GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I will that if I say a heavy thing
Last Line: "here dead she lieth, for whose sake love is dead."
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Gardens & Gardening; God; Love; Dead, The; Nightmares


THE TWO DREAMS, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I met one in the land of sleep
Last Line: So both were only dreams.
Subject(s): Dreams; Friendship; Life; Love; Sleep; Nightmares


THE TWO HOMES, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My home was seated high and fair
Last Line: "and the weary life of the valley!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Home; Storms; Nightmares


THE UNATTAINED, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A vision beauteous as the morn
Last Line: "all shall pursue, but none shall claim me."
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Desire; Dreams; Vision; Nightmares


THE UNION, by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You that have gathered together the sons of all races
Last Line: One singing star of the world.
Subject(s): Dreams; Flags; Freedom; Mankind; Nations; Tears; Nightmares; Liberty; Human Race


THE UNKNOWN, by EMILE DESCHAMPS DE SAINT AMAND    Poem Text                    
First Line: I saw in dream a fair unknown
Last Line: Alas! It was a dream indeed!
Alternate Author Name(s): Deschamps, Emile
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


THE UNKNOWN WOMAN, by ALEXANDER (ALEKSANDR) ALEXANDROVICH BLOK    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: I have foreknown thee! Oh, I have foreknown thee
Last Line: Yet terror clings to me. Thy image will be strange.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Facades; Shadows; Women; Dead, The; Nightmares; Appearances


THE USED-TO-BE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beyond the purple, hazy trees
Last Line: The lips of used-to-be.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Loss; Summer; Trees; Nightmares


THE VALLEY OF PALE BLUE FLOWERS, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In a hidden valley a pale blue flower grows
Last Line: My soul slowly, slowly, slowly, will sink to its ultimate hour.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Memory; Nothingness; Salvation; Youth; Nightmares; Nihilism; Voids


THE VEILED AVENGER; A FRAGMENT, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am he
Last Line: His own bitter infinite cry we hear him cry!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Comfort; Despair; Dreams; Pity; Redemption; Spiritual Life; Nightmares


THE VESPER CHIME, by CARROLL RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a spirit comes to me
Last Line: And sounds the vesper chime.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll
Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Shadows; Nightmares; Bedtime


THE VISION OF HIS PEOPLE, by LEON GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ere yet the morn in glory rose
Last Line: I saw my people—horrid sight!
Subject(s): Dreams; Jews; Jews - Persecution; Nightmares; Judaism


THE VISIONARY, by MARY ENOLA RUDOLPH    Poem Text                    
First Line: They call me mad - a luckless dreamer - I
Last Line: Yet I -- I shall grow old remembering.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


THE VOICE OF THE GUMBO BLUFF, by THELMA HILL WARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am the voice of the gumbo bluff
Last Line: I am much more than earth.
Subject(s): Dreams; Immortality; Nightmares


THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: A DREAM, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I had a quiet dream last night
Last Line: That I could not speak a word.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Dreams; Netherlands; Travel; Nightmares; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips


THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: GOING BACK AGAIN, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamed that I walked in italy
Last Line: A knife across her throat.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Variant Title(s): Check To Song
Subject(s): Dreams; Murder; Netherlands; Travel; Nightmares; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips


THE WAYSIDE DREAM, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The deep and lordly danube
Last Line: And keep the sunset's gold.
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Danube (river); Dreams; Home; Nightmares


THE WEAVER OF DREAMS, by MARJORIE EDITH KAHL    Poem Text                    
First Line: The weaver of dreams is a gay little man
Last Line: "finds infinite joy in the giving."
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


THE WEAVER OF SNOW, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In polar noons when the moonshine glimmers
Last Line: The weaver of snow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Dreams; Fairies; Girls; Laughter; Snow; Weavers And Weaving; Nightmares; Elves


THE WEED, by ELIZABETH BISHOP    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamed that dead, and meditating
Last Line: For a year, a minute, an hour
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


THE WESTERN WINDS, by JOHN WALSH (1835-1881)    Poem Text                    
First Line: A maiden sat on an ocean-steep
Last Line: The golden brim of the western wave.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


THE WHITE MOON, by PAUL VERLAINE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: It is the exquisite hour
Subject(s): Moon; Time; Dreams


THE WILD WIND, by SARA NICHOLS    Poem Text                    
First Line: It's only on nights like this
Last Line: Childhood memory.
Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Gulls; Youth; Nightmares


THE WINDOWS, by JEAN VALENTINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Funeral dream
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


THE WITHERING OF THE BOUGHS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I cried when the moon was murmuring to the birds
Last Line: The boughs have withered because I have told them my dreams.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Winter; Dreams


THE WOMAN IN THE ROOM, by MILLER WILLIAMS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: She stands at the foot my bed and starts to speak
Subject(s): Dreams; Silence; Man-woman Relationships; Nightmares; Male-female Relations


THE WOMEN YOU ARE ACCUSTOMED TO, by LUCILLE CLIFTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wearing that same black dress
Last Line: Your burning blood, your dancing tongue.
Subject(s): Dreams; Women; Nightmares


THE WOOD, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a knight once rode from out the sun
Last Line: Or came unto the marsh, I never knew.
Subject(s): Dreams; Eyes; Forests; Knights & Knighthood; Nightmares; Woods


THE WOOD, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come with me to the mossy places
Last Line: If I kissed you, the wood-gods would not tell!
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Forests; Kisses; Life; Tears; Dead, The; Nightmares; Woods


THE WORLD OF DREAM, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now, through the dusk
Last Line: Of the world of dream.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


THE WORLD OF DREAMS, by GEORGE CRABBE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And is thy soul so wrapt in sleep?
Last Line: Tis made! -- and I to freedom wake!
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


THE WORLD'S DESIRE, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pain of too poignant beauty fills the heart
Last Line: Desire for thee to end thy long seclusion!
Subject(s): Desire; Dreams; Pain; Nightmares; Suffering; Misery


THE WORLD'S DESIRE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beauty is like a star
Last Line: Melody, fragrance and fire!
Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Dreams; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Sleep; Nightmares


THE WOUND, by TOM SLEIGH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I woke the darkness was so thick,
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


THE YEAR, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What can be said in new year rhymes
Last Line: And that's the burden of the year.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs.
Subject(s): Dreams; Fear; Holidays; Hope; New Year; Nightmares; Optimism


THE YOUTH DREAMS, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, I should love to be like one of those
Last Line: And still our horses rustle like the rain.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


THERE ARE PLACES, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where you can still see the ancestors
Last Line: Consolidating ancestors %like soup
Subject(s): Dreams


THERE IS A PLACE, by JANET S. WONG    Poem Source                    
Last Line: There is such a place, %hidden deep %in me
Subject(s): Dreams


THEY COME ASHORE, by DEENA LINETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: My dream had got the details wrong
Last Line: Dawn in floods of tears %-it will be hard to go home
Subject(s): Dreams; Saint Kilda (scotland)


THEY COME ASHORE (1), by DEENA LINETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: In my dream, in the dark, the people
Last Line: In the dark that answers their dark clothes
Subject(s): Dreams; Gratitude; Saint Kilda (scotland)


THEY FEED THEY LION, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of burlap sacks, out of bearing butter
Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Food & Eating; Industry; Labor & Laborers; Lions; Nightmares; Work; Workers


THEY FEED THEY LION, by PHILIP LEVINE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of burlap sacks, out of bearing butter
Last Line: They feed they lion and he comes
Subject(s): Animals; Dreams; Food And Eating; Industry; Labor And Laborers; Lions


THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 14, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You alone, %a white robe over your naked body
Last Line: Through the dreams of twenty years
Subject(s): Bodies; Desire; Dreams; Past


THINGS WE DREAMT WE DIED FOR, by MARVIN BELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Flags of all sorts
Last Line: By the many who have not one.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Literature; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Nightmares


THIRTY YEARS SINCE I WANTED, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Am I looking in this tunnel %for my dreams
Subject(s): Arabs; Dreams; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine


THIS BEAUTIFUL LITTLE GIRL, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: In a shiny white dress
Last Line: I never want to sing this song
Subject(s): Dreams


THIS IS HOW MY DREAMS, MY VISIONS TAKE PLACE, by ELICURA CHIHUAILAF    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your words are like the sounds of the kultrun
Last Line: The pathways of my people with blood
Subject(s): Dreams; Vision


THIS WAS HIS DREAM: THAT EARTH SHOULD GIVE, by BEN H. SMITH    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Dreams; Farm Life


THOUGH BIRDS HAVE FLOWN, by BETTIE MARGOT CASSIE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now that the trees are stripped of all their fire
Last Line: Though birds have flown the trees still harbor nests.
Subject(s): Autumn; Birds; Dreams; Seasons; Trees; Fall; Nightmares


THOUGHT DREAMS, by LILLIAN VIGGERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Constant waves of beauty come
Last Line: And exalt the heart of man.
Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Travel; Nightmares; Journeys; Trips


THOUGHTS, by MORRIS WEISSMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thoughts, random, like dreams
Last Line: Of friendship -- of caring %of -- sharing
Subject(s): Dreams; Reason


THOUGHTS AT LAKE SJODAL, by ROLF JACOBSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Was it the mountain-horn played by the waterfalls
Last Line: And in our blood, %the one that rejuvenates the world
Subject(s): Dreams; Thought


THOUSAND AND ONE TAKES, by SAM HAMILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am lying naked, dreaming in bright sunlight
Last Line: That returns us, finally, to the garden
Subject(s): Dreams; Love


THREE DREAMS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I dreamed that you were dreaming
Last Line: Dreamed of you
Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Morning; Weeds


THREE DREAMS, by JR. ROBLEY WILSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am walking along a sandy shore
Last Line: You must expect things to be changed
Subject(s): Dreams


THREE DREAMS ABOUT ELIZABETH BISHOP: 1, by JOSEPH DONALD MCCLATCHY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It turned out the funeral had been delayed a yar
Last Line: You'd heard why women live longer than men-- %because they wear big diamond rings
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcclatchy, J. D.
Subject(s): Bishop, Elizabeth (1911-1979); Dreams


THREE DREAMS ABOUT ELIZABETH BISHOP: 2, by JOSEPH DONALD MCCLATCHY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She is sitting three pews ahead of me
Last Line: Watching us leave, angel or executioner, %not caring which, pursuing her own thoughts
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcclatchy, J. D.
Subject(s): Bishop, Elizabeth (1911-1979); Dreams


THREE DREAMS ABOUT ELIZABETH BISHOP: 3, by JOSEPH DONALD MCCLATCHY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dawn through a slider to the redwood deck
Last Line: The tree no questions of the flower, one more day no help for all this night
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcclatchy, J. D.
Subject(s): Bishop, Elizabeth (1911-1979); Dreams


THREE DREAMS OF AN AMBITIOUS MAN, by IRA SADOFF    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At first you feel safe in the middle of a crowd. Then the magician calls
Last Line: You that it is useless to go on
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep


THREE FATES: 1, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O dreamer, follow fast the star
Last Line: The couch is flowered for you.
Subject(s): Dreams; Fate; Future Life; Rest; Nightmares; Destiny; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


THREE NIGHT SONGS: 1, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He waits to happen with the clear
Last Line: So bright and clear and cold.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Dreams; Longing; Night; Nightmares; Bedtime


THROUGH ALL MY DREAMING, by TESLA V. LENNSTREND    Poem Text                    
Last Line: Sounds a silver song.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


THY DREAMS ARE THE DEEDS OF MEN, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Or mighty sons now sleeping and of mighty sons to be
Last Line: Till our infantry win victory 'neath the flag of brother-hood.
Subject(s): Dartmouth College; Dreams; Youth; Nightmares


TINKER'S DREAM, by THOMAS GRIBBLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm in love with a delicate man
Last Line: Like a hand print on a frosty pane
Subject(s): Dreams; Love


TO A BAVARIAN GIRL, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou, bavaria's brown-eyed daughter
Last Line: Flower of isar's vale!
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Danube (river); Dreams; Germany; Girls; Life; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Germans


TO A BUNCH OF LILAC, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Is it the april springing
Last Line: And long but to love, and die.
Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri
Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Hope; Life; Lilacs; Love; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Optimism


TO A CARDIGANSHIRE SHEPHERD-POET (A GREETING), by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like the cistercian, who fled
Last Line: Bringeth his flock to fold.
Subject(s): Dreams; Immortality; Wales; Nightmares; Welshmen; Welshwomen


TO A SEAMEW, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I had wings, my brother
Last Line: Beachy head, september, 1886.
Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Sailing & Sailors; Storms; Wings; Nightmares


TO A SLEEPING MAID, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! Do not rudely wake her, nor reproach
Last Line: That finds in dreams a world more fair than this.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Sleep; Women; Nightmares


TO A STRANGER, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night I lay and dreamed of you
Last Line: Till I have dreamed my dream away!
Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


TO A SUCCESSFUL MAN; (WHAT THE GHOSTS SAID), by ALFRED NOYES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And after all the labour and the pains
Last Line: In your last dreams they may come back to you.
Subject(s): Courage; Dreams; Faces; Fame; Labor & Laborers; Love; Valor; Bravery; Nightmares; Reputation; Work; Workers


TO A WATER LILY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "dream, dream / perfume-laden one!"
Last Line: Drowsy in dream!
Subject(s): Dreams;flowers;lilies;perfume;sleep; Nightmares


TO BALLYQUIN FOR DREAMS, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And I shall go to ballyquin
Last Line: My secret dreams forevermore.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


TO C. M. D., by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If it be true, as some have dreamed
Last Line: Still you with me and I with you.
Subject(s): Dreams; Poetry & Poets; Sea; Soul; Nightmares; Ocean


TO CALDERON, by JUAN EUGENIO HARTZENBUSCH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Thou who, in accent of disdain profound
Last Line: All is a dream, except my fame alone'
Subject(s): Dreams


TO DANTE, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Your sonnet, just like
Last Line: And then from it two others poured %more delicate
Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Dreams


TO DREAMS, by MARY JULIA YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hail. Gentle spirits, who with magic wing
Last Line: I owe such bliss, yet know not what you are!
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


TO EACH HIS DREAM, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: With each his little, secret dream
Last Line: Throws back a wonder on each face!
Subject(s): Dreams; Lies; Life; Love; Soul; Tears; Time; Nightmares


TO FLORENCE, by ULYSSES GOLDBERG    Poem Text                    
First Line: The breathing of the night mingles quietly with the
Last Line: So my fluttering dreams swarm eagerly to you.
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Nightmares


TO HAVE A THOUGHT, by STEVE EDWARDS    Poem Source                    
First Line: When light strikes a cat's eyes
Last Line: Doors. Doors as wide as buses %and invisible to the naked eye
Subject(s): Dreams; Thought


TO HELEN KELLER, by BABETTE DEUTSCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: You live in a country stranger than the moon
Last Line: And from the grown soul's deep and arrowy voice.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yarmolinsky, Avrahm, Mrs.
Subject(s): Blindness; Dreams; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Night; Soul; Visually Handicapped; Nightmares; Bedtime


TO HELEN KELLER, by COVINGTON HALL    Poem Text                    
First Line: You who never saw the sun-flamed hills
Last Line: Be evermore your slave.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ami, Covington; Ami, Covami
Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Youth; Nightmares


TO HIS MISTRESS, WHO DREAMED HE WAS WOUNDED, by GIOVANNI BATTISTA GUARINI    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thine eyes, bright saint, disclose
Last Line: Open or closed alike they wound.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


TO JOHN KEATS, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Severn, I feel the flowers o'er me grow,'
Last Line: Greening above you in eternal spring.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Flowers; Funerals; Future Life; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Nightmares; Burials; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


TO L.C.P., by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From the slow-moving shadows on the grass
Last Line: From the sad eyes of dark mnemosyne.
Subject(s): Dreams; Eyes; Heaven; Life; Nature; Youth; Nightmares; Paradise


TO L.H.B., by KATHERINE MANSFIELD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night for the first time since you were dead
Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen
Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Dreams; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Nightmares


TO LEONORA, by AMADO NERVO    Poem Source                    
First Line: Black as the wing of mystery thine hair
Last Line: Yet is there something deeper still-thy dream!
Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Love


TO LINA, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lina, rival of the linnet
Last Line: Might be trancing as a dream.
Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Nightmares


TO M. S. G. (2), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I dream that you love me, you'll surely forgive
Last Line: To awake will be torture sufficient.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Nightmares


TO MADELINE USHER, by TOM SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Madeline, innocence demands
Last Line: The thirst of bitter marigolds %grips paradise
Subject(s): Dreams; Night


TO MARIAN POWYS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh lace-maker, what joys, what fears
Last Line: And a dream beyond this dream?
Subject(s): Dreams; Fear; Happiness; Sleep; Nightmares; Joy; Delight


TO MARIE, by JOHN BENNETT (1865-1956)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the breeze from the bluebottle's ... Blim
Last Line: "panky-doodle ker-chuggetty-chug!"
Subject(s): Dreams; Nonsense; Soul; Nightmares


TO MONTACUTE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O thou at memory's holiest shrine caressed
Last Line: Is to the heart that loves already given.
Subject(s): Birds; Children; Dreams; Love; Memory; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Sleep; Childhood; Nightmares


TO MY MOTHER, by HELEN WIDOFF    Poem Text                    
First Line: Visible through an avalanche of tears
Last Line: To find the lost sun that had once shone.
Subject(s): Dreams; Hallucinations And Illusions; Memory; Nightmares


TO ONE WHO SPOKE OF ETERNAL THINGS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hush! For the shadow of a flower
Last Line: More than eternity.
Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Future Life; Trees; Worship; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


TO R.D., MARCH 4TH 1988, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You were my mentor. Without knowing it,
Subject(s): Dreams; Man-woman Relationships; Death; Nightmares; Male-female Relations; Dead, The


TO SAPPHO, by MARGUERITE E. ROSEBERY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh lonely lyric sappho
Last Line: The glory of a dream.
Subject(s): Absence; Dreams; Solitude; Tears; Separation; Isolation; Nightmares; Loneliness


TO SLEEP, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Alas! How far away it seems
Last Line: If thou wilt come to-morrow, sleep.
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares


TO SLEEP, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, sleep! But mind ye! If you come without
Last Line: For all your poppy-heads and all your down.
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares


TO SLEEP, by ALICE MEYNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear fool, be true to me!
Last Line: Make me all night the innocent fool that dreams.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


TO THE BELOVED, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You were a part of the green country
Last Line: And wake, alas! To the lonely places.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Grief; Love; Mourning; Solitude; Dead, The; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; Loneliness


TO THE SKY, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tis beauty's feast to scan thy shifting play
Last Line: And what thy wisdom holds our need we blindly miss!
Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Love; Truth; Nightmares


TO THE SPIRIT OF DREAMS, by AGNES STRICKLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Spirit! Who to shrouded eyes
Last Line: Shades of glory on the mind.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


TO THE TUNE OF TELLING MY MOST INTIMATE FEELINGS, by LI CH'ING-CHAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: When night comes,
Last Line: And yet I possess these moments of time
Subject(s): Dreams; Night


TO THE WEST, by CHI-HA KIM    Poem Source                    
First Line: In my heart %the flame subsides
Last Line: On my way out %to the west
Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Past; Remorse; Travel


TO THE YOUNG WOMAN WHO TORE 'INSOMNIA' FROM ELIZABETH BISHOP'S ..., by AMY S. WITHROW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Last night, I dreamed you couldn't sleep
Last Line: Must still shudder at their unrestrained touch
Subject(s): Dreams; Insomnia


TO YOU WHOM I SAW ONCE, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I remember / that your eyes were tranquil
Last Line: And secret dreams.
Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Love - Beginnings; Memory; Passion; Nightmares


TO YOUNG DREAMERS, by LUCIA TRENT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Above dark cities build
Last Line: Of the wide, impossible sky!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Mrs. Ralph; Glass, Mrs. Ernest
Subject(s): Dreams; Faith; Nightmares; Belief; Creed


TO-NIGHT ACROSS THE SEA, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To-night I sent a dream across the sea
Last Line: The mournful seas impart.
Subject(s): Dreams; Sea; Nightmares; Ocean


TOAD DREAMS, by MARGE PIERCY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dream of toads: we rarely
Subject(s): Dreams; Animals; Conduct Of Life; Nightmares


TOOTH AND NAIL, by JANE O. WAYNE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Last night my necklace broke
Last Line: Maybe tonight you will come like a lost word %or a coin under my pillow. %I watch my fingernails ret
Subject(s): Dreams


TOWARDS BREAK OF DAY, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Was it the double of my dream
Last Line: From mountain steep to steep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Dreams


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. THE DREAM GOES BY, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The dream goes by, touches men's hearts, and floats and fades again
Last Line: And floats, and waits, again.
Subject(s): Dreams; Labor & Laborers; Nightmares; Work; Workers


TRAGEDIES: 1, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS    Poem Text                    
First Line: She was a dancer, - I was the master
Last Line: In a laughing wanton's bed!
Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri
Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Dreams; Heaven; Night; Tragedy; Nightmares; Paradise; Bedtime


TRAGEDIES: 10, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The river's mouth is weary wide
Last Line: And mingled and melted over the sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Moon; Rivers; Nightmares


TRAGEDIES: 3, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS    Poem Text                    
First Line: My little love, my lily wan
Last Line: I'll drift you into the endless sea!
Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri
Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Love; Moon; Night; Sea; Sleep; Nightmares; Bedtime; Ocean


TRAGEDIES: 8, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I dream'd I was in sicily
Last Line: I'd tied at the headstone long ago.
Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri
Subject(s): Dreams; Graves; Sicily; Trees; Nightmares; Tombs; Tombstones


TRAVELING AROUND IN SOUTHERN CAUCASIA, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: In georgia I found a round typewriter
Last Line: And the round typewriter at your fingertips
Subject(s): Dreams


TRAVELING DREAM, by MARGE PIERCY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am packing to go to the airport
Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dreams; Travel; Nightmares; Journeys; Trips


TRAVELING DREAM, by MARGE PIERCY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am packing to go to the airport
Last Line: There is one cat the size of a sofa
Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Dreams; Travel


TREAD THE DARK: 64, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In this dream I do not exist. This I know since it is my dream
Last Line: I say this in the best of health and in expectation of a long life
Subject(s): Dreams


TREASURE SONG, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The miser loves to count his store
Last Line: So dear, and only seeming!
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Dreams; Wealth; Nightmares; Riches; Fortunes


TROPICS, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the still morning when you move
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Sleep; Tropics; Nightmares


TRUE DREAM, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I had not an evil in view
Last Line: I saw a gleam, I heard a sound - %the clock was striking eight
Subject(s): Dreams


TRUE LIGHT, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O hast thou nothing but thy dreams
Last Line: In that true light of living dreams.
Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Nightmares


TRUE TANGERINES, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: A great mountain of tangerines
Last Line: In time, tasting of tangerine
Subject(s): Dreams


TRYING TO DREAM UP AN ANSWER, by BARTON SUTTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Like a compass needle
Last Line: As if all these miles meant something
Subject(s): Dreams; Introspection


TURNING POINT, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Moments wash %one into another, like
Last Line: I am just knowing
Subject(s): Change; Dreams


TURNIP CAKE, by JANET S. WONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: On the table %I find a slice of turnip cake
Last Line: And I wake up %hungry
Subject(s): Dreams


TURTLE, by TOM SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Something: something that rises
Last Line: The crow calls. Something rises
Subject(s): Dreams; Night


TURVEY TOP, by WILLIAM SAWYER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twas after a supper of norfolk brawn
Last Line: And would flourish in turvey top.
Subject(s): Dreams; Fantasy; Life; Nonsense; Nightmares


TWILIGHT, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, let us go
Last Line: Only the long, long love 'twixt thee and me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): Dreams; Evening; Sleep; Nightmares; Sunset; Twilight


TWILIGHT, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The first glad breath of day is dear
Last Line: One small dream changes to a star!
Subject(s): Dreams; May (month); Nightmares


TWILIGHT AUDITION, by MARTITIA M. MOORE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I muse - a drowsy film bewreaths my world
Last Line: My soul exultant floats in ecstasy!
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


TWILIGHT DREAMS, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: They come in the quiet twilight hour
Last Line: For the toil of coming day
Subject(s): Dreams;evening; Nightmares;sunset;twilight


TWINS AT HAND, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: So here we are at the big wedding
Last Line: His action %my space
Subject(s): Dreams


TWO ARTS, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: One %look through the eye
Last Line: For that matter
Subject(s): Dreams


TWO DREAMERS, by LAURIE KUTCHINS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the few places in this meadow
Last Line: Will be come back
Subject(s): Birth; Dreams; Love - Marital; Pregnancy


TWO OBJECTS HANGING IN AIR, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: One round, another %elongated
Last Line: Touching room is flooding %lightwise
Subject(s): Dreams


TWO PARTED, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sing of a love lost and forgotten
Last Line: "-- ""oh for the silence that stilleth all sighs."" --"
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Sea; Nightmares; Ocean


TYRANNICK [TYRANNIC] LOVE: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah how sweet it is to love
Last Line: Tis but rain, and runs not clear.
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Sleep; Virginity; Nightmares; Vestals


TYRANNICK [TYRANNIC] LOVE: SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah how sweet it is to love
Last Line: Tis but rain, and runs not clear.
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Sleep; Virginity; Nightmares; Vestals


ULTIMO SOSPIRO, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Joy of the world / o flower-crown'd spring
Last Line: O sighs of longing.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Rome, Italy; Spring; Nightmares


ULTRAISTA ONEIRIC, by ANSELM HOLLO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dream vortices broadcast / humorous din
Last Line: Bounces into unsteady calm
Subject(s): Dreams; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Nightmares; Ocean


UNANSWERED LETTER TO A LADY NOVELIST, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Neither her voice, her name
Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Nightmares


UNDER THE ROUND TOWER, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Although I'd lie lapped up in linen
Last Line: On great-grandfather's battered tomb.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Dreams


UNFORGOTTEN DREAMS, by CHARLES HENRY MACKINTOSH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I walked one evening in a city slum
Last Line: "beloved, may you live these dreams some day!"
Subject(s): Dreams; Poverty; Nightmares


UNFULFILMENT, by BURGES JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I see an upland pasture, clover-blown
Last Line: That I am not the figure of the dreams.
Subject(s): Boys; Children; Dreams; Childhood; Nightmares


UNITY, by VIRGINIA WOODWARD CLOUD    Poem Text                    
First Line: A sombre pine is stirred
Last Line: And brushed by the bird's soft wing.
Subject(s): Dreams; Pine Trees; Nightmares


UNNATURAL ACTS, by GREG HEWETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Somewhere along the line
Last Line: Style, style, style
Subject(s): Dreams; Hitchhikers; Hotels; Nature; Travel


UNREALISED, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not yet, not yet, beloved!
Last Line: Forget, forget, my dream.
Subject(s): Dreams; Kisses; Love; Nightmares


UNSATISFACTORY DREAM, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why did you elude me last night
Last Line: Rodin - no it wasn't an illusion
Subject(s): Dreams; Paris, France


UNSPOKEN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O he can hold her hand, and full
Last Line: There lives a love unspeakably sub lime.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dreams; Happiness; Love; Soul; Nightmares; Joy; Delight


UP AGAINST IT, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The wall was white, whitewash lime
Last Line: The small leaves trembling with light.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Dreams; Garcia Lorca, Federico (1898-1936); Murder; Walls; Nightmares


URANIA TO HER FRIEND PARTHENISSA; A DREAM, by THOMAS FLATMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In a soft vision of the night
Last Line: But parthenissa smil'd, and then she disappear'd.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


USUAL DREAM ABOUT ONE'S OWN FUNERAL, by ANNE SZUMIGALSKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: And here comes the worshipful company
Last Line: Through the knotted swatch of her hair
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Funerals


VAIN DREAMS, by JOSEPH MARIE SOULARY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Had I but an acre of loam on hill or valley
Last Line: Holds no more for me than a fickle dream that fades.
Subject(s): Dreams; Home; Nightmares


VANDALS, BEES, by MICHAEL ALAN PARKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the poem about the vandals and the bees %the vandals don their padded suits
Last Line: (yarrow, thistle, wheat, whatever %look at me, they yodel. Beebeebee!
Subject(s): Dreams; Poetry And Poets; Vandalism


VARIATIONS: 11, by CONRAD AIKEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This night I dreamed that you shone before me
Last Line: And now I have lost you.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


VARIATIONS: 14, by CONRAD AIKEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beautiful body made of ivory
Last Line: Quietly you possess me.
Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Nightmares


VARIATIONS: 18, by CONRAD AIKEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun distills a golden light,
Last Line: For the sky is everywhere.
Subject(s): Dreams; Solitude; Nightmares


VENETIANS, by EDUARDO URIOS-APARISI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sun persists in leaving you here where
Last Line: Not dreaming in gold
Subject(s): Deserts; Dreams; Food And Eating; Solitude


VERSES WRITTEN BY MRS. HUTCHINSON, by LUCY HUTCHINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All sorts of men through various labours presse
Last Line: Or where is man soe uncontroul'd a lord?
Subject(s): Dreams; Freedom; Grief; Life; Nightmares; Liberty; Sorrow; Sadness


VIA DOLOROSA: 7. THE LAST WORD, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So many a dream and hope that went and came
Last Line: And bids fare forth the soul it bids fare well.
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Nightmares


VIEW #20: NORTH, by THOMAS CENTOLELLA    Poem Source                    
First Line: So far north %they talk of temperature
Last Line: As for us %he wasn't wrong
Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Waiting


VIEW #45, by THOMAS CENTOLELLA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I dreamt half my life was spent
Last Line: Who knows when, and will end %who knows when?
Subject(s): Dreams; Love


VIOLIN SONGS: A DREAM SONG, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamed of a song - I heard it sung
Subject(s): Dreams; Future Life; God; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


VIRTUAL RELATIONS, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I killed an old lady
Last Line: Ready at last to be killed off
Subject(s): Dreams


VISION, by KATIE F. NICHOLS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here lies a dreamer
Last Line: Shall make it less.
Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Vision; Nightmares


VISION AT TWILIGHT, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lamps are lit: I gaze into the dark
Subject(s): Night; Dreams; Bedtime; Nightmares


VISION OR DREAM, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: On a bed of soft mosses, I lay 'neath the trees
Last Line: He went as he came—in vision or dream.
Subject(s): Bible; Books; Dreams; Knowledge; Modern Man; Religious Education; Teaching & Teachers; Reading; Nightmares; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools; Educators; Professors


VISIONS, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In lone glenartney's thickets lies couched the lordly stag
Last Line: My heart beat wildly -- and I woke, and lo! It was a dream.
Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Dreams


VISIONS, by DAVID LEE MAULSBY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Oh, happy land, with castles fair
Last Line: Within the veil withdrawn -- in dreams?
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


VISIONS: 1, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of love's wild glow I dreamt in former days
Last Line: An airy breath to that dim shade I blow.
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Nightmares


VISIONS: 10, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I oft have pale spectres before now
Last Line: Sweet love. O lovest thou me?
Subject(s): Dreams; Ghosts; Love; Supernatural; Nightmares


VISIONS: 2, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A dream both strange and sad to see
Last Line: Headlong I fell, and -- woke from sleep.
Subject(s): Birds; Dreams; Flowers; Hearts; Time; Nightmares


VISIONS: 3, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In midnight vision I myself have spied
Last Line: Deceived me oft, I trust ye still as blindly!
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


VISIONS: 4, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In dream I saw a tiny manikin
Last Line: "and thousand laughing devils cried ""amen!"
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


VISIONS: 5, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why stirs and chafes my madden'd blood?
Last Line: She blush'd, well pleased with what she heard.
Subject(s): Anger; Dreams; Evil; Nightmares


VISIONS: 6, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In blissful dream, in silent night
Last Line: "thou'rt ours for all eternity!"
Subject(s): Dreams; Heaven; Hope; Night; Nightmares; Paradise; Optimism; Bedtime


VISIONS: 7, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou now hast the money, -- why longer delay?
Last Line: "for ever, amen!"" the old mother exclaims."
Subject(s): Dreams; Marriage; Nightmares; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


VISIONS: 8, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I came from the house of my mistress dear
Last Line: And the spirits rush'd back to their graves with a yell
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Silence; Singing & Singers; Nightmares; Songs


VISIONS: 9, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I was asleep, and calmly slept
Last Line: The pale-as-marble maid.
Subject(s): Blood; Dreams; Love; Pain; Nightmares; Suffering; Misery


VISTAS OF LABOR: 2. THE MINER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Up creaks the car; he leaves his ghastly dream
Last Line: And once again life is a nightmare dream.
Subject(s): Dreams; Fear; God; Life; Love; Mines & Miners; Nightmares


WAITING AFIELD AT DUSK, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What things for dream there are when spectre-like
Last Line: For whom these lines when they shall greet her eye.
Subject(s): Dreams; Absense


WAKE, by TOM SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dawn woke me today
Last Line: And I gave the sky away
Subject(s): Dreams; Night


WAKENING, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Looking up at the last from the first sleep
Last Line: Than this light or than any remembered heaven
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Day; Dreams; Light; Waking


WAKING, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lying beneath a hundred seas of sleep
Last Line: Except the man that woke and then was I.
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares


WAKING AT DUSK FROM A NAP, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the years that pass through
Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


WAKING FROM A DREAM, by MILLER WILLIAMS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a nothingness, an impulse, a quark
Last Line: Who doesn't know a lot of arithmetic
Subject(s): Dreams


WAKING, SLEEPING, DREAMING, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wake, the day is breaking
Last Line: Turn the clocks around.
Subject(s): Clocks; Day; Dreams; Time; Nightmares


WALKING DREAM, by NATASHA SAJE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Do you also dream of cities
Last Line: Never talking and never stopping?
Subject(s): Dreams


WALKING TO SLEEP, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As a queen sits down, knowing that a chair will be there
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


WALKING TO SLEEP, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As a queen sits down, knowing that a chair will be there
Last Line: Lay clear, unfathomed, taken as they came
Subject(s): Dreams


WAR, by GEORGE STERLING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The night was on the world, and in my sleep
Last Line: Men rose and made a second sacrifice.
Subject(s): Dreams; Military; War; Nightmares


WAR IS KIND: 11, by STEPHEN CRANE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: On the desert / a silence from the moon's deepest valley
Last Line: Is in the dance of the whispering snakes.
Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dreams; Snakes; War; Dead, The; Nightmares; Serpents; Vipers


WARNING, by CLYDE MCGEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Dream not of a new heaven, lad
Last Line: Dreamers die on crosses.
Subject(s): Dreams; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Nightmares


WARRIORS OF THE DREAM, by HERMANN HAGEDORN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They pushed their glowing joys aside
Last Line: "is to give all to a dream!"
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


WAS DREAMING', by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Cold and %very afraid
Subject(s): Dreams


WASHING MY FACE, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night's dreams disappear
Last Line: A transparent rose swallowed by its stem.
Subject(s): Dreams; Faces; Introspection; Past; Nightmares


WAYFARERS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wind is very cold!
Last Line: "follow the wind!"
Subject(s): Cities; Dreams; Memory; Sea; Soul; Wind; Urban Life; Nightmares; Ocean


WE DREAM - IT IS GOOD WE ARE DREAMING, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: It's prudenter to dream
Variant Title(s): Poem: 531; Poem: 58
Subject(s): Dreams


WE HAVE DREAMED TOO MUCH OF GOLD, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: We have followed the monster mammon on the broad
Last Line: While out in the lovelit gardens the lonely roses blow.
Subject(s): Dreams; Gold; Money; Nightmares


WE MET IN A DREAM, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Some forty years ago there on your
Last Line: Love that is beyond all earthly love
Subject(s): Dreams; Leopardi, Giacomo (1798-1837)


WEBS, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, they spread out their silver webs
Last Line: And cannot slip away?
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


WEED, by ELIZABETH BISHOP    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamed that dead, and meditating
Last Line: And answered then: 'I grow it,' it said, %'but to divide your heart again'
Subject(s): Dreams


WEIGHT, by BRUCE BOND    Poem Source                    
First Line: ...So when the sirens came
Last Line: The tongueless doors fluttering %behind them, like wings
Subject(s): Dreams


WESTWARD PAGEANT, by LUCILLE BURTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Always the westward pageant; always man
Last Line: Aye! It is so! -- march on, o caravan!
Subject(s): Caravans; Dreams; Pioneers; Travel; Nightmares; Journeys; Trips


WHALE DREAM, by CHRISTINE EVANS    Poem Source                    
First Line: In a dream I loosed my voice
Last Line: I woke sensing the last one %was what I had lost
Subject(s): Dreams


WHAN I SLEEP I DREAM, by ROBERT BURNS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Dreams


WHAT BOBBIE DREAMED, by DOROTHY HAIGHT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Please let me in, st. Peter
Last Line: For letting me come through.
Subject(s): Dreams; Heaven; Nightmares; Paradise


WHAT JEWEL IS LEFT?, by SARAH M. HOWARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: What shall my empty eyes behold
Last Line: When the very spark is dead?
Subject(s): Dreams; Jewelry & Jewelers; Night; Nightmares; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces; Bedtime


WHAT PLAY THE REST IN DREAMS, by GUY BENNETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: A dance engraves its root
Last Line: Till stern wrests land at last
Subject(s): Dreams


WHAT SHALL ENDURE?, by JAMES CHRISTIAN LINDBERG    Poem Text                    
First Line: The poet squanders time in idle dreams
Last Line: The dreamer's song, perchance, outlasts them all.
Subject(s): Dreams; Hope; Labor & Laborers; Poetry & Poets; Nightmares; Optimism; Work; Workers


WHAT THEY ASK, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Always they greet you and say
Last Line: "and what have you been doing?"
Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A.
Subject(s): Dreams; Thought; Nightmares; Thinking


WHAT THEY DREAMED AND SAID, by M. E.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Rose dreamed she was a lily
Last Line: "but I'm very glad I'm me."
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


WHAT WAS MY DREAM?, by JOSEPH O'CONNOR    Poem Text                    
Last Line: Love's sigh its harbinger? What was my dream?
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


WHAT WITH FOG, by ALLAN PETERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: If you had books you could read in your dreams
Last Line: In the ponds conducted a symphony ignored
Subject(s): Dreams; Fog


WHAT'S IT LIKE TO BE 84 PERCENT?, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Even more to the point
Last Line: I bet you think these are the same too!
Subject(s): Dreams


WHAT?, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Strengthening as secret manna
Last Line: But oh how sweet the stream.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Dreams; Life; Memory; Nightmares


WHEN BABY SLEPT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When weenty - teenty baby
Last Line: When baby donned her dreams, and slept.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Babies; Dreams; Sleep; Infants; Nightmares


WHEN BABY WOKE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When weenty - teenty baby woke
Last Line: When baby woke, -- when baby woke.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Babies; Dreams; Sleep; Tears; Infants; Nightmares


WHEN DREAMS DEPART, by JULIA CAROLINE RIPLEY DORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: When dreams depart, then it is time to die
Last Line: When they depart, it is thyself that dies.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


WHEN GRAZIELLA SINGS, by CHARLOTTE ROBERTA MISH    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is a tender little song you sing
Last Line: The gentle dreamer lives, I think, again.
Subject(s): Dreams; Night; Spring; Nightmares; Bedtime


WHEN JOSE DANIEL DREAMS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: The immense marine village %where we have been
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Presence


WHEN THE LIGHT DIES AWAY ON A CALM SUMMER'S EVE, by EDWARD LEAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That the joys which first woke it, are long ago crushed!
Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Mourning; Solitude


WHEN THERE IS PEACE, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is peace on the sea tonight
Last Line: Amid the earthquakes of death.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Fish & Fishing; God; Love; Peace; Dead, The; Nightmares


WHEN, WITH YOU ASLEEP, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: When, with you asleep, I plunge into your soul
Last Line: The secret of the center %of the heavens
Subject(s): Angels; Dreams; Heaven; Love - Loss Of


WHERE FLOWN, O PEACE?, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS    Poem Text                    
First Line: O peace, that lies within beloved arms
Last Line: Yon smile of iron lips nightmared from out the mouth of hell.
Subject(s): Dreams; Peace; Nightmares


WHERE IT WAS AT BACK THEN, by ANNE SEXTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Husband, / last night I dreamt
Subject(s): Marriage; Dreams; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Nightmares


WHERE YOUR FEET GO, by JOSEPH AUSLANDER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where your feet go no wind stirs
Last Line: On my lids the gradual seal.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nature; Sleep; Wind; Nightmares


WHILE CIGARETTES TO ASHES TURN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He smokes - and that's enough,'
Last Line: While cigarettes to ashes turn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Dreams; Love; Night; Smoking; Nightmares; Bedtime; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes


WHILE JOURNEYING, by KANG GANGWOL    Poem Source                    
First Line: While journeying a thousand miles
Last Line: Each morning, I awake %my vision spilling
Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Sleep; Travel


WHILE THE MUSICIAN PLAYED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O it was but a dream I had
Last Line: That voyaged with the crew.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Variant Title(s): A Dream (2)
Subject(s): Dreams; Sea; Nightmares; Ocean


WHITE RETRIEVER, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Out there on the screen
Last Line: And my white dream trailing %off, white dog running off
Subject(s): Dreams


WHO DOESN'T DREAM, by LENNART SJOGREN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I saw a rat come across the road
Last Line: Not unlike birds set up without wings
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Rest; Sleep


WHO KNOWS HOW LONG, by JANET S. WONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: A stranger asks me something
Last Line: Who knows how long
Subject(s): Dreams


WHOSE FACE IS THIS?, by JANET S. WONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: I do not recognize %these eyes
Last Line: Can it be me?
Subject(s): Dreams


WHY DO YOU NEVER ENTER MY DREAMS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nightly I await you
Last Line: In sleep go visiting %the dreams of another?
Subject(s): Dreams; Love


WHY DOES ONE DREAM OF THEM?, by MARTHA RONK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The foreign objects are related to the accent
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


WHY FREEZE, by HANU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Why freeze to sleep
Last Line: Tonight, I'll have a sleep that thaws
Subject(s): Cold; Dreams; Frost; Sleep; Solitude; Winter


WIFE, by KATE NORTHROP    Poem Source                    
First Line: That's how it felt, that I was wind
Last Line: No hope of going out.
Subject(s): Desire; Dreams; Grief; Marriage


WILD BOUQUET, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gathered into a bouquet, the restless bluebells tremble
Last Line: Get back here before autumn takes over
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep


WILLING TO BE, by KIRK NESSET    Poem Source                    
First Line: Do not regret the passing of the caravan and the camel
Last Line: Wind. Silence, starsick, %unfolds
Subject(s): Deserts; Dreams; Food And Eating


WINDOW TRIMMER, by MARGARET LEE ASHLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: He took some little, dark-red shoes
Last Line: I wonder what became of him?
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Dreams; Windows; Nightmares


WISH YOU WERE HERE, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: My dear friend:
Last Line: That you were here with us. Hugs and kisses. Greetings from my %husband. %your dear friend
Subject(s): Absence; Dreams; Las Vegas, Nevada; Travel; U.s. - Immigration And Emigration


WISHING, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I reflect how little I have done
Last Line: When his new world rose from the charmed deep.
Subject(s): Dreams; Happiness; Soul; Wishes; Nightmares; Joy; Delight


WITCH WIFE AND I, by SARA BARD FIELD    Poem Text                    
First Line: When the moon has poured her light
Last Line: Day has brought you back to me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wood, Charles Erskine Scoot, Mrs.
Subject(s): Dreams; Gays & Lesbians; Love; Witchcraft & Witches; Nightmares; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men


WITCHERY, by FRANK DEMPSTER SHERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of the purple drifts
Last Line: Comes now the moth-white moon!
Subject(s): Dreams; Moon; Night; Sea; Witchcraft & Witches; Nightmares; Bedtime; Ocean


WITHDRAWALS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Look on his face, so aged, so set, so white
Last Line: Death.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Faces; Hope; Life; Love; Dead, The; Nightmares; Optimism


WITHIN A DREAMER'S HAND, by VIRGINIA SCOTT    Poem Text                    
First Line: The dreamer wandering down a lonely beach
Last Line: Or treads the land that hardy viking found!
Alternate Author Name(s): O'neill, Virginia Scott
Subject(s): Dreams; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Nightmares


WITHIN THAT LITTLE HIVE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And dreams, reality
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1607; Poem: 163
Subject(s): Dreams; Reality


WOMAN AMID DREAMS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Woman maddened by dreams
Last Line: The fingertips of my heart
Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Love; Man-woman Relationships


WOMAN IS CARRYING THE FULL MOON, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: In slices
Last Line: No, she says, it's from %six months ago
Subject(s): Dreams


WOMAN SLEEPS ON AN ISLAND, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: She is an island %surrounded by stars
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep


WOMAN TO LOVER, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am fire / stilled to water
Last Line: I am the way to die.
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Love; Women; Dead, The; Nightmares


WOMEN'S SLEEP, by ROLF JACOBSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Old women often sleep so heavily
Last Line: But the sleep doors are too stiff. They sleep %deep as cement, and recognize no one
Subject(s): Dreams; Old Age; Rest; Sleep


WOOD MAGIC, by FRANCES HALLEY BROCKETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sun's rays a-slantin' clear across the wood
Last Line: Feels like I'm growin' here, brother to the tree.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


WORD EXPANSE, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: This place is filled with words
Last Line: I'm still unable to %pass it on
Subject(s): Dreams


WORK, by ALPAY ULKU    Poem Source                    
First Line: The blue door has vanished now, dreamer. The dark shapes that kept
Last Line: I wish we were two cats snug on a window ledge, watching the pigeons
Subject(s): Dreams; Labor And Laborers


WORLD OF MY DREAMS, by CLYDE MCGEE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Something softly at close of day
Last Line: Keeps calling to me, calling to me.
Subject(s): Dreams; Sleep; Nightmares


WRITTEN BY THE SEA, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet are white dreams I' the dusk, yet sweeter far
Last Line: White joy, white peace, white balm that healeth me!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Dreams; Flowers; Sea; Soul; Nightmares; Ocean


WRITTEN IN MY DREAM BY W. C. WILLIAMS, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As is/you're hearing
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


WRITTEN IN SLEEP WHILE DREAMING OF A SPARROW ON BERRYMAN'S WRIST, by TIM SHEA    Poem Source                    
First Line: There's violence on the table
Subject(s): Dreams


WYNKEN, BLYNKEN AND NOD, by EUGENE FIELD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wynken, blynken, and nod one night
Last Line: And nod.
Variant Title(s): A Dutch Lullaby;wynken, Blynken, And Nod
Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Mothers; Sleep; Childhood; Nightmares


YEARS, by PATRICIA WILSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now I don't think about them that often, his last hours, though I have
Last Line: Forty-five years
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Funerals; Sleep


YELLOW MOON LOOKS SLANTLY DOWN, by RICHARD HENRY STODDARD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Within some dead old world of dreams
Subject(s): Dreams; Moon; Night; Sleep


YOU AND I, by FRIEDRICH HEBBEL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We dreamed of one another
Last Line: Into the throat's abyss
Alternate Author Name(s): Hebbel, Christian Friedrich
Subject(s): Dreams; Togetherness


YOU GO BACK, by DEENA LINETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: You go back to where people know
Last Line: Two women in the mist, disembodied %-girlish voices
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Dreams; Fantasy; Saint Kilda (scotland)


YOU MURMUR 'EARTH', by JOANNE KYGER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: A return to this continuous story
Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs.
Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Loss


YOUNG FATE, by PAUL VALERY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Harmonious me, disparate from a dream
Last Line: And burns in the somber goal of my yawning marble.
Subject(s): Brides; Dreams; Fate; Nightmares; Destiny


YOUNG WIFE, WAKING, by FLOYD DELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Shadow-boy, shadow lover
Last Line: Come not again!
Subject(s): Desire; Dreams; Nightmares


YOUNGSTER AND OLDSTER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Is she not fair?
Last Line: Is one right, or the other -- or are both?
Subject(s): Dreams; Fear; Sleep; Soul; Stars; Nightmares


YOUR DEATH, by GEORGE QUASHA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Is numbered %said the voice that came
Last Line: With the best of intentions
Subject(s): Dreams


YOUR MUSIC, by PAULINE OGDEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Your slender fingers drift across the keys
Last Line: Feeling that you are playing just for me.
Subject(s): Dreams; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Nightmares


YOUR RECURRING DREAM, by JANE O. WAYNE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Haven't you noticed
Last Line: Locked into a dream that never crashes
Subject(s): Dreams


ZARA (3) (SEE MATURIN'S 'WOMEN'), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamed that loving me he would love on
Last Line: Oh love that gnaws and gnaws and cannot kill.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Life; Love; Memory; Dead, The; Nightmares