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Summary

‘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 
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Duration: about 2 hours (01:38:27)
Publishing date: 2022-01-01; Unabridged; Copyright Year: — Copyright Statment: —

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