Dreams

The Good-Morrow by John Donne
I wonder by my troth, what thou and I
Bedside by William Olsen
Because it turns out the world really is a hospital
The Sleepers by Walt Whitman
I wander all night in my vision
A Bedtime Story For Mr. Lamb by Arthur Nevis
What story would you like to hear, Mr. Lamb?
He Dreams of Falling by Ruth Ellen Kocher
At the table in patio seating,
The Republic of Dreams by Michael Palmer
She lay so still that
Darkness by George Gordon Byron
I had a dream, which was not all a dream
Prologue of the Earthly Paradise by William Morris
Of Heaven or Hell I have no power to sing
His Heart by Caroline Knox
His heart keeps him awake while he's asleep
Raven's Last Dream by Red Hawk
Raven was in a deep sleep
A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe
Take this kiss upon the brow!
Dream of the Evil Servant by Reetika Vazirani
We kept war in the kitchen.
Dream Song 1 by John Berryman
Huffy Henry hid the day,
Dream Variations by Langston Hughes
To fling my arms wide
Dreaming About My Father by Ed Ochester
Monna Innominata [I dream of you, to wake] by Christina Rossetti
I dream of you, to wake: would that I might
I Might Have Dreamed This by Kirsten Dierking
For a short time after the rape,
O Little Root of a Dream by Paul Celan
O little root of a dream
The Dream of the Just by Dana Gelinas
Next to the fourteen excellent reasons
The Song in the Dream by Saskia Hamilton
The song itself had hinges. The clasp on the eighteenth-century Bible
The Sandman by Margaret Thomson Janvier
The rosy clouds float overhead
Japanese Lullaby by Eugene Field
Sleep, little pigeon, and fold your wings
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod by Eugene Field
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night
Cradle Song by William Blake
Sleep, sleep, beauty bright
Lullaby of an Infant Chief by Sir Walter Scott
O, hush thee, my babie, thy sire was a knight
Counting by Douglas Goetsch
I'd walk close to buildings counting
Flying by Sarah Arvio
One said to me tonight or was it day
The Land of Nod by Robert Louis Stevenson
From Breakfast on through all the day
it was a dream by Lucille Clifton
in which my greater self
Variation on the Word Sleep by Margaret Atwood
I would like to watch you sleeping,
Nocturne by Wayne Miller
Tonight all the leaves are paper spoons
Making the Bed by Burt Kimmelman
Summer country. In the morning the leaves
Our eunuch dreams by Dylan Thomas
Our eunuch dreams, all seedless in the light
The Tower by W. B. Yeats
What shall I do with this absurdity
I am Like a Desert Owl, an Owl Among the Ruins by Noelle Kocot
The alpha You. The omega You
A Book Said Dream and I Do by Barbara Ras
There were feathers and the light passed through feathers
Kristin's Dream In November by Bernadette Mayer
I went thru the turnstyle to the party
The House by Richard Wilbur
Sometimes, on waking, she would close her eyes
Dear Tiara by Sean Thomas Dougherty
I dreamed I was a mannequin in the pawnshop window
Grasshopper by Ron Padgett
It's funny when the mind thinks about the psyche
Dream In Which I Meet Myself by Lynn Emanuel
Even the butter's a block of sleazy light. I see that first
Last by Maxine Scates
At dusk the streetlights
Scarecrow on Fire by Dean Young
Everything is brushed away, off the sleeve
The Book of a Thousand Eyes [A dream, still clinging like light to the dark, rounding] by Lyn Hejinian