Life In A Dream



There is nothing so sweet as our life in our dreams,
When we soar far on fancy's swift wing;
For a thing in our dreams is all that it seems,
And the songs are so sweet that we sing.
Ah! the sun shines the brightest, and stars twinkle lightest
At the moon in her silvery beams!
  
There is nothing so gay as the life in our dreams,
With its joy and its laughter and mirth;
For the pleasure that teems is far greater, one deems,
Than any he finds in the earth.
There are homes are our natal, and nothing is fatal
In the beautiful land of our dreams!
  
There is nothing so bright as the life in our dreams,
Far away from earth's trickery chance;
There the music's wild screams and the wine in its streams
Are both lost in the song and the dance.
Oh! our joy is the sweetest and life is completest,
Ah! the life in our beautiful dreams!
  
There is nothing serene as the life in our dreams,
When the dove to his mate softly cooes
In the groves by the streams and the moon's silver beams,
Where the swain oft his maid gently wooes.
There the swains are the rarest and maids are the fairest,
And their love is as true as it seems!
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Submitted on August 03, 2020

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABABCA ADADXA AEAECA AAAAXA
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 1,102
Words 223
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 6, 6, 6, 6

Edward Smyth Jones

 · 1968 · Chicago

Edward Smyth Jones (March 1881 – 28 September 1968) was an African-American poet.  more…

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