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Poems Of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Poet's Dream, The

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From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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Poet's Dream, The

On a Poet's lips I slept Dreaming like a love - adept In the sound his breathing kept; Nor seeks nor finds he mortal blisses, But feeds on the aerial kisses Of shapes that haunt Thought's wildernesses.

He will watch from dawn to gloom The lake - reflected sun illume The yellow bees in the ivy - bloom, Nor heed nor see what things they be - But from these create he can Forms more real than living Man, Nurslings of Immortality!

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