I DREAMT I saw a huge grey boat in silence steaming Down a canal; it drew the dizzy landscape after; The solemn world was sucked along with it -- a streaming Land-slide of loveliness. O, but I rocked with laughter, Staring, and clinging to my tree-top. For a lake Of gleaming peace swept on behind. (I mustn't wake.) And then great clouds gathered and burst in spumes of green That plunged into the water; and the sun came out On glittering islands thronged with orchards scarlet-bloomed; And rosy-plumed flamingoes flashed across the scene... O, but the beauty of their freedom made me shout... And when I woke I wondered where on earth I'd been. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FLOWER GUIDANCE by ROBERT FROST CLARK STREET BRIDGE by CARL SANDBURG THE SHEPHERDESS by ALICE MEYNELL DAFFODILS by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 5. THE LOCH by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM THE OLD COUPLE by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON THE LORDS OF LIFE: 1. THE LORDS OF LIFE by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE OUT OF THE SHADOWS: AN UNFINISHED SONNET-SEQUENCE 10 by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. |