Come to Me, Dreams of Heaven!
Come to me, dreams of heaven!My fainting spirit bearOn your bright wings, by morning given,Up to celestial air.Away--far, far away,From bowers by tempests riven,Fold me in blue, still, cloudless day,O blessed dreams of heaven!
Come but for one brief hour,Sweet dreams! and yet againO’er burning thought and memory showerYour soft effacing rain!Waft me where gales divine,With dark clouds ne’er have striven,Where living founts for ever shine--O blessed dreams of heaven!
Words in this poem
- cloudless a.
- Without a cloud; clear; bright.
- waft v. t.
- To give notice to by waving something; to wave the hand to; to beckon. [Prob. originally imp. & p. p. of wave, v. t. See Wave to waver.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
Come to Me, Dreams of Heaven! is in the public domain. This text is taken from The Poems of Felicia Hemans, Project Gutenberg ebook #66785; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Felicia Hemans, Come to Me, Dreams of Heaven!, in Poems (1808–1835), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #66785, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/hemans-poems/come-to-me-dreams-of-heaven.html, id L19697.
Form and metre
Come to Me, Dreams of Heaven! is 16 lines in 2 stanzas of 8 lines each. The metre is iambic trimeter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 87%).
See other poems in iambic trimeter.
Measured by Laurel's pipeline, not copied from a handbook: how stress and metre are counted, how rhyme is lettered, how a drifted rhyme is found. Where the dictionary cannot confirm a rhyme the letter is withheld, not guessed.
Rhyme words, stanza by stanza
The word that ends each line, lettered by the rhyme it makes; a dash is a line whose rhyme the dictionary could not confirm.
- 1 ABCBDCDA heavenA · bearB · givenC · airB · awayD · rivenC · dayD · heavenA
- 2 ABABCBCB hourA · againB · showerA · rainB · divineC · strivenB · shineC · heavenB
Scansion, line by line
Each line with its syllable count and the stresses the words themselves fix: / stressed, ˘ unstressed, · a syllable the word leaves free and the metre decides. Read against iambic trimeter. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| Come to me, dreams of heaven! | 7 | ·····/˘ |
| My fainting spirit bear | 6 | ·/˘/˘· |
| On your bright wings, by morning given, | 8 | ·····/˘/ |
| Up to celestial air. | 6 | ··˘/˘· |
| Away--far, far away, | 6 | ˘/··˘/ |
| From bowers by tempests riven, | 7 | ·/·/˘/˘ |
| Fold me in blue, still, cloudless day, | 8 | ·····/˘· |
| O blessed dreams of heaven! | 6 | ····/˘ |
| Come but for one brief hour, | 7 | ·····/˘ |
| Sweet dreams! and yet again | 6 | ····˘/ |
| O’er burning thought and memory shower | 8 | ·/˘··/˘/ |
| Your soft effacing rain! | 6 | ··˘/˘· |
| Waft me where gales divine, | 6 | ····˘/ |
| With dark clouds ne’er have striven, | 7 | ·····/˘ |
| Where living founts for ever shine-- | 7 | ·/˘··/· |
| O blessed dreams of heaven! | 6 | ····/˘ |
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