Only a Dream! It floated thro' The sky of a lonely sleep As floats a gleam Athwart the Blue Of a golden clouded Deep. Only a Dream! I calmly slept. Meseems I called a name; I woke; and, waking, I think I wept And called -- and called the same. Only a Dream! Graves have no ears; They give not back the dead; They will not listen to the saddest tears That ever may be shed. Only a Dream! Graves keep their own; They have no hearts to hear; But the loved will come From their Heaven-Home To smile on the sleeper's tear. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FISHERMAN IN SONGKHLA by KAREN SWENSON ROCK ME TO SLEEP by ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN BROTHER AND SISTER by MARY ANN EVANS THE EAGLE THAT IS FORGOTTEN by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY WORLD'S WORTH by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI |