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THE LOOM OF DREAMS by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS

Poet Analysis

First Line: I BROIDER THE WORLD UPON A LOOM
Last Line: SITS WEAVING WORLDS OUT OF LONELINESS?
Subject(s): DREAMS; SOLITUDE; WEAVERS AND WEAVING; NIGHTMARES; LONELINESS;

I broider the world upon a loom,
I broider with dreams my tapestry;
Here in a little lonely room
I am master of earth and sea,
And the planets come to me.

I broider my life into the frame,
I broider my love, thread upon thread;
The world goes by with its glory and shame,
Crowns are bartered and blood is shed:
I sit and broider my dreams instead.

And the only world is the world of my dreams,
And my weaving the only happiness;
For what is the world but what it seems?
And who knows but that God, beyond our guess,
Sits weaving worlds out of loneliness?



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