Yes, I am dreamer. Yet while you dream, Then I am awake. When a child, back through The gates of the past I peer'd, and I knew The land I had lived in. I saw a broad stream, Saw rainbows that compass'd a world in their reach; I saw my beloved go down on the beach; Saw her lean to this earth, saw her looking for me As shipmen looked for loved ship at sea. . . . While you seek gold in the earth, why, I See gold in the steeps of the starry sky; And which do you think has the fairer view Of God in heaven -- the dreamer or you? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE MOTHER IN THE HOUSE by HERMANN HAGEDORN TO LUCY, COUNTESS OF BEDFORD, WITH MR. DONNE'S SATIRES by BEN JONSON ON SEEING THE ELGIN MARBLES by JOHN KEATS THE SONG OF HIAWATHA: HIAWATHA AND MUDJEKEEWIS by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW A LETTER by PHILIP JAMES BAILEY MORNING STAR by HARRIET R. BEAN MARCH MADNESS ON EDGEWATER HILL by BEULAH ALLYNE BELL |