|
Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET: 5, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dreamt I to-day the dream of yesternight Last Line: Truth is a dream, unless my dream is true. Subject(s): Dreams; Truth; Nightmares | |||
Dreamt I today the dream of yesternight, Sleep ever feigning one evolving theme, -- Of my two lives which should I call the dream? Which action vanity? which vision sight? Some greater waking must pronounce aright, If aught abideth of the things that seem, And with both currents swell the flooded stream Into an ocean infinite of light. Even such a dream I dream, and know full well My waking passeth like a midnight spell, But know not if my dreaming breaketh through Into the deeps of heaven and of hell. I know but this of all I would I knew: Truth is a dream, unless my dream is true. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...VARIATIONS: 14 by CONRAD AIKEN VARIATIONS: 18 by CONRAD AIKEN LIVE IT THROUGH by DAVID IGNATOW A DREAM OF GAMES by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN THE DREAM OF WAKING by RANDALL JARRELL APOLOGY FOR BAD DREAMS by ROBINSON JEFFERS GIVE YOUR WISH LIGHT by ROBINSON JEFFERS |
|