StoryTitle("caps", "The Dream") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Dear love, for nothing less than thee", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Would I have broke this happy dream;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "It was a theme", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For reason, much too strong for fantasy.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Therefore thou waked'st me wisely; yet", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My dream thou brok'st not, but continued'st it.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thou art so true that thoughts of thee suffice", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To make dreams truths and fables histories;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Enter these arms, for since thou thought'st it best", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Not to dream all my dream, let's act the rest. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As lightning, or a taper's light,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thine eyes, and not thy noise, waked me;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Yet I thought thee—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For thou lov'st truth—an angel, at first sight;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But when I saw thou saw'st my heart, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And knew'st my thoughts beyond an angel's art,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When thou knew'st what I dreamt, when thou knew'st when", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Excess of joy would wake me, and cam'st then,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I must confess it could not choose but be", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Profane to think thee anything but thee. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Coming and staying show'd thee thee,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But rising makes me doubt that now", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Thou art not thou.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That Love is weak where Fear's as strong as he;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0SQ", "", "'Tis not all spirit pure and brave ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If mixture it of Fear, Shame, Honour have.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Perchance as torches, which must ready be,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Men light and put out, so thou deal'st with me.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thou cam'st to kindle, go'st to come: then I", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Will dream that hope again, but else would die.", "") ?>
Poet("John Donne", "1573-1631") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>