YOU hail from Dream-land, Dragon-fly? A stranger hither? so am I. And (sooth to say) I wonder why We either of us came! Are you (that shine so bright i' the air) King Oberon's state-messenger? Come tell me how my old friends fare, Is Dream-land still the same? Who won the latest tourney fight, King Arthur, or the red-cross Knight? Or he who bore away the bright Renown'd Mambrino's casque? Is Caliban king's councillor yet? Cross Mentor jester still and pet? Is Suckling out of love and debt? Has Spenser done his task? Say, have they settled over there, Which is the loveliest Guinevere, Or Gloriana or the fair Young Queen of Oberon's Court? And does Titania torment still Mike Drayton and sweet-throated Will? In sooth of her amours 'twas ill To make such merry sport. Ah, I have been too long away! No doubt I shall return some day, But now I'm lost in love and may Not leave my Lady's sight. Mine is (of course) the happier lot, Yet -- tell them I forget them not, My pretty gay compatriot, When you go home to-night. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE FIRST MOVIE by DAVID WAGONER VICTOR GALBRAITH by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW LAUGHING CORN by CARL SANDBURG A MIDNIGHT MEDITATION by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN THE OLD SCOTTISH CAVALIER by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN TO HIS LATE MAJESTY, CONCERNING..TRUE FORM OF ENGLISH POETRY by JOHN BEAUMONT THE CONSOLATION OF PHILOSOPHY: BOOK 3 by ANICIUS MANLIUS SEVERINUS BOETHIUS |