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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A DREAM, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed a morning dream - a torrent brought Last Line: I looked again, the torrent-bed was dry. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares | |||
I dreamed a morning dream - a torrent brought From fruitless hills, was rushing deep and wide: It ran in rapids, like impatient thought; It wheeled in eddies, like bewildered pride: Bleak-faced Neology, in cap and gown, Peered up the channel of the spreading tide, As, with a starved expectancy, he cried, 'When will the Body of the Christ come down?' He came - not It, but He! no rolling waif Tost by the waves - no drowned and helpless form - But with unlapsing step, serene and safe, As once He trod the waters in the storm; The gownsman trembled as his God went by - I looked again, the torrent-bed was dry. | 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 HER FIRST-BORN by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER |
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