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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GOD'S DREAM, by WILLIAM NORRIS BURR 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 | |||
"The man's a dreamer!" Good! That places him In close relationship with God. For down In the most wretched quarter of town God stands and dreams His dream; amid the grim, Ensanguined battle wreckage; in the dim, Cold twilights where old superstitions frown; And where the mutterings of race hatred drown The sacred cadences of Love's fond hymn. Today I met him on an uptown street Calling for dreamers,—pleading in the heat Of holy passion for more dream-swept hearts To hold in all the world's discordant parts The Torch of Brotherhood, that its Love-gleam Might speed the progress of His gracious Dream! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...VARIATIONS: 14 by CONRAD AIKEN VARIATIONS: 18 by CONRAD AIKEN LIVE IT THROUGH by DAVID IGNATOW A DREAM OF GAMES by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN THE DREAM OF WAKING by RANDALL JARRELL APOLOGY FOR BAD DREAMS by ROBINSON JEFFERS GIVE YOUR WISH LIGHT by ROBINSON JEFFERS IN THE JEWISH SYNAGOGUE AT NEWPORT by EMMA LAZARUS THE OLD MAN'S COMFORTS AND HOW HE GAINED THEM by ROBERT SOUTHEY |
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