SOME must delve when the dawn is nigh; Some must toil when the noonday beams; But when night comes, and the soft winds sigh, Every man is a King of Dreams! One must plod while another must ply At plough or loom till the sunset streams, But when night comes, and the moon rides high, Every man is a King of Dreams! One is slave to a master's cry, Another serf to a despot seems, But when night comes, and the discords die, Every man is a King of Dreams! This you may sell and that may buy, And this you may barter for gold that gleams, But there's one domain that is fixed for aye, -- Every man is a King of Dreams! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...EACH AND [OR, IN] ALL by RALPH WALDO EMERSON SACRIFICE by RALPH WALDO EMERSON FOR THE BED AT KELMSCOTT by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 19. SILENT NOON by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI SONNET: 8 by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE |