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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WE DREAMERS, by RUTH BERNSTEIN First Line: We dreamers thought that we had died too soon Last Line: We smile, we dead, and whisper with the rain). | |||
We dreamers thought that we had died too soon -- So when they buried us, we rose again To dive from pensive peaks beyond the moon, And swim upon the crest of clouds, and then We painted lovely sunsets in our flight -- Across the sky with sweeping strokes we fled -- Our failing breath we left to perfume night -- Our restless souls still drove us on -- though dead. Wraith-like, our specters streaked the Milky-Way. We raced a shooting star across the sky; But fled before the fevered pulse of day -- Content at last to rest and sleep and die! (They wrote "Disturb not those who died in vain" -- We smile, we dead, and whisper with the rain). | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LWONESOMENESS by WILLIAM BARNES SOUNDS OF THE CITY by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE THE EPSOM DUEL, 1689 by THOMAS (TOM) BROWN DON JUAN: CANTO 14 by GEORGE GORDON BYRON THE PINES by MARY HOPE CABANISS TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. THE SOUL TO THE BODY by EDWARD CARPENTER |
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