Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FOR MY FATHER, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poet's Biography First Line: Over and over again I dream a dream Last Line: In the quiet evening I am finding you. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Daughters; Death; Dreams; Fathers; Homecoming; Dead, The; Nightmares | ||||||||
OVER and over again I dream a dream; I am coming home to you in the starlit gloam; Long was the day from you and sweet 'twill seem The day is over and I am coming home. Then I shall find you as in days long past, Sitting so quietly in the firelight glow; "Love," you will say to me, "you are come at last," Your eyes be glad of me as long ago. All I have won since then will slip my hold, Dear love and children, the long years away; I shall come home to you the girl of old, Glad to come home to youoh, glad to stay! Often and often I am dreaming yet Of the firelit window when I've crossed the hill, And I coming home to you from night and wet: Often and often I am dreaming still. Over and over again I dream my dream. Ah, why would it haunt me if it wasn't true? I am travelling home to you by the last red gleam, In the quiet evening I am finding you. | 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 |
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