Poems

I have already spoke about some sleep and dream poetry, but here are a few more classics.

1. Edgar Allan Poe: "A Dream Within A Dream"
   O God! can I not save
   One from the pitiless wave?
   Is all that we see or seem
   But a dream within a dream?


2. Paul Celan: "O Little Root of a Dream"
   O little root of a dream
   you hold me here
   undermined by blood,
   no longer visible to anyone,
   property of death.
   
   Curve a face
   that there may be speech, of earth,
   of ardor, of
   things with eyes, even
   here, where you read me blind,
   
   even
   here,
   where you
   refute me,
   to the letter.
   


3. Robert Louis Stevenson: "The Land of Nod"
   From Breakfast on through all the day
   At home among my friends I stay,
   But every night I go abroad
   Afar into the land of Nod.
   
   All by myself I have to go,
   With none to tell me what to do--
   All alone beside the streams
   And up the mountain-sides of dreams.
   
   The strangest things are there for me,
   Both things to eat and things to see,
   And many frightening sights abroad
   Till morning in the land of Nod.
   
   Try as I like to find the way,
   I never can get back by day,
   Nor can remember plain and clear
   The curious music that I hear

Enjoy your poetry-cation.

Found on Poets.org