The Poetry of Dreams

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United States

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‘Perchance to dream’ is an offer that most of us would accept in the blink of an eye. That mysterious ‘other world’ where the day’s reality is processed by our subconscious, really is a mystery, even to the experts and self-help books who decipher our beguiling imaginings with all sorts of reasonings. Perhaps the better truth is that most of us don’t remember much about our dreams, unlike its near neighbour the nightmare! Day-dreams too fall into a fantasy imagining where we try to re-route the natural course of events as we move from one emotion to another. Our unconscious dreams seem essential for our mental and emotional well-being and some believe they provide solutions, answers and prophesize important events. In the conscious world we use the word to describe our goals, desires and wishes which reveal much about who we are and our chosen path for life. Whatever their significance may or may not be, they are universal and a subject on which our poets have much to say. With such a rich seam to mine, our poets from Sarojini Naidu to Lewis Carroll, Edna St Vincent Millay to Shakespeare by way of Antonio Machado and Longfellow and a host of others provide a pillowful of poems that will set you dreaming. 01 - The Poetry of Dreams - An Introduction 02 - He Wishes For the Cloths of Heaven by W B Yeats 03 - A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allen Poe 04 - The Dream by John Donne 05 - The Dream by Amy Levy 06 - Ay, Workman, Make Me A Dream by Stephen Crane 07 - House of Dreams by Sara Teasdale 08 - My Darling Dear, My Daisy Flower by John Skelton 09 - Roses of a Dream by Damon Runyon 10 - A Ballad of Dreamland by Algernon Charles Swinburne 11 - Longing by Matthew Arnold 12 - The Dream by Alexander Pushkin 13 - A Dream by Edgar Allen Poe 14 - The Dream by Aphra Behn 15 - Love by Rupert Brooke 16 - This Faulted Dream by Daniel Sheehan 17 - Sonnet 87 - Farewell! Thou Art Too Dear For My Possessing by William Shakespeare 18 - The Dream Called Life by Pedro Calderon de la Barca 19 - Dream Fable by Rabia al Basri 82 - Under the April Moon by Bliss William Carman 21 - Song of a Dream by Sarojini Naidu 22 - A Midday Dreamer by James Weldon Johnson 23 - Dreams Old by D H Lawrence 24 - A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky (Life Is But a Dream) by Lewis Carroll 25 - Dream Town by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 26 - A Little Boy's Dream by Katherine Mansfield 27 - The Opal Dream Cave by Katherine Mansfeild 28 - Dreams by John Dryden 29 - Life Tells the Dreamer by Margaret Widdemer 30 - Dreams by Anne Bronte 31 - The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver by Edna St Vincent Millay 32 - My Dead Dream by Sarojini Naidu 33 - Dreams by Edgar Allen Poe 34 - I Wake And Feel The Fell Of Dark Not Day by Gerard Manley Hopkins 35 - I Go on Dreaming of Paths by Antonio Machado 36 - Dreamland by Edgar Allen Poe 37 - I Dream'd I Lay by Robert Burns 38 - A Dream Lies Dead by Dorothy Parker 39 - Harlem by Langston Hughes 40 - Forgotten Dreams by Edward Silvera 41 - Boaz Asleep by Victor Hugo 42 - A Dream of Glory by Albery Allson Whitman 43 - I Rose From Dreamless Hours by James Elroy Flecker 44 - From Dewy Dreams, My Soul Arise by James Joyce 45 - Dream Variation by Langston Hughes 46 - Dreams by Robert Tannahill 47 - Dreams by Robert Herrick 48 - Dream Pediary by Thomas Lovell Beddoes 49 - Dreamland by Christina Rossetti 50 - A Nocturnal Reverie by Anne Kingsmill-Finch 51 - Dreams and Duty by Tom Kettle 52 - Last Night I Dreamed by Hafiz 53 - Musselman's Dream by Anne Kingsmill-Finch 54 - Th Author - Edgar Allan Poe. Narrator - Alex Jennings. Published Date - Tuesday, 31 January 2023.

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English