DREAMS

Related Subjects: Castle, Imagination, Psychoanalysis, Psychology, Sleep, Vision

1. When to soft Sleep we give ourselves away,
   And in a dream as in a fairy bark
   Drift on and on through the enchanted dark
   To purple daybreak—little thought we pay
   To that sweet bitter world we know by day.—T. B. ALDRICH, Sleep
   

2. If there were dreams to sell,
   What would you buy?—T. L. BEDDOES, Dream-Pedlary
   

3. As a dream when one awaketh.—Bible, Psalms 73:20
   

4. Your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions.—Bible, Joel 2:28
   

5. I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls,
   With vassals and serfs at my side.—ALFRED BUNN, The Bohemian Girl
   

6. I had a dream, which was not all a dream.—BYRON, Darkness
   

7. And dreams in their development have breath,
   And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy;
   They have a weight upon our waking thoughts,
   They take a weight from off our waking toils,
   They do divide our being.—BYRON, The Dream
   

8. A change came o'er the spirit of my dream.—BYRON, The Dream
   

9. My eyes make pictures, when they are shut.—COLERIDGE, A Day Dream
   

10. And so, his senses gradually wrapt
    In a half sleep, he dreams of better worlds,
    And dreaming hears thee still, O singing lark;
    That singest like an angel in the clouds.—COLERIDGE, Fears in Solitude
    

11. A sight to dream of, not to tell!—COLERIDGE, Christabel
    

12. Dream after dream ensues;
    And still they dream that they shall still succeed;
    And still are disappointed.—COWPER, The Task
    

13. In blissful dream, in silent night,
    There came to me, with magic might,
    With magic might, my own sweet love,
    Into my little room above.—HEINE, Youthful Sorrows
    

14. Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams
    Unnatural and full of contradictions;
    Yet others of our most romantic schemes
    Are something more than fictions.—THOMAS HOOD, The Haunted House
    

15. Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!)
    Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace.—LEIGH HUNT, Abou Ben Adhem
    

16. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.—LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
    

17. Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
    Life is but an empty dream!—LONGFELLOW, The Psalm of Life
    

18. Is this a dream? O, if it be a dream,
    Let me sleep on, and do not wake me yet!—LONGFELLOW, The Spanish Student
    

19. For dhrames always go by contrairies, my dear.—SAMUEL LOVER, Rory O'More
    

20. Ground not upon dreams, you know they are ever contrary.—THOMAS MIDDLETON, The Family of Love
    

21. I believe it to be true that Dreams are the true Interpreters of our Inclinations; but there is Art required to sort and understand them.—MONTAIGNE, Essays
    

22. Oh! that a dream so sweet, so long enjoy'd,
    Should be so sadly, cruelly destroy'd!—THOMAS MOORE, Lalla Rookh
    

23. Dreamer of dreams, born out of my due time,
    Why should I strive to set the crooked straight?—WILLIAM MORRIS, The Earthly Paradise
    

24. A thousand creeds and battle cries,
    A thousand warring social schemes,
    A thousand new moralities
    And twenty thousand, thousand dreams.—ALFRED NOYES, Forward
    

25. Those dreams are true which we have in the morning, as the lamp begins to flicker.—Own, Epistles
    

26. All that we see or seem
    Is but a dream within a dream.—POE, A Dream Within a Dream
    

27. Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.—POE, Eleonora
    

28. You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.—POPE, The Dunciad
    

29. Till their own dreams at length deceive 'em,
    And oft repeating, they believe 'em.—MATTHEW PRIOR, Alma
    

30. The republic is a dream.
    Nothing happens unless first a dream.—CARL SANDBURG, Washington Monument by Night
    

31. I'll dream no more—my manly mind
    Not even in sleep is well resigned.
    My midnight orisons said o'er,
    I'll turn to rest and dream no more.—SCOTT, Lady of the Lake
    

32. Thou hast beat me out Twelve several times, and I have nightly since
    Dreamt of encounters 'twixt thyself and me.—SHAKESPEARE, Coriolanus
    

33. There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest,
    For I did dream of money-bags tonight.—SHAKESPEARE, The Merchant of Venice
    

34. I have an exposition of sleep come upon me.—SHAKESPEARE, A Midsummer-Night's Dream
    

35. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.—SHAKESPEARE, A Midsummer-Night's Dream
    

36. The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man bath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was.—SHAKESPEARE, A Midsummer-Night's Dream

37. This is the rarest dream that e'er dull sleep
    Did mock sad fools withal.—SHAKESPEARE, Pericles
    

38. Oh, I have pass'd a miserable night,
    So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams,
    That, as I am a Christian faithful man,
    I would not spend another such a night,
    Though 'twere to buy a world of happy days.—SHAKESPEARE, Richard III
    

39. For never yet one hour in his bed
    Have I enjoyed the golden dew of sleep,
    But have been waked by his timorous dreams.—SHAKESPEARE, Richard III
    

40. True, I talk of dreams,
    Which are the children of an idle brain,
    Begot of nothing but vain fantasy.—SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet
    

41. If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep,
    My dreams presage some joyful news at hand;
    My bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne;
    And all this day an unaccustom'd spirit
    Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.—SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet
    

42. Sits as one new-risen from a dream.—SHAKESPEARE, The Taming of the Shrew
    

43. We are such stuff
    As dreams are made on, and our little life
    Is rounded with a sleep.—SHAKESPEARE, The Tempest
    

44. We rest. A dream has power to poison sleep;
    We rise. One wandering thought pollutes the day.—SHELLEY, Mutability
    

45. In an ocean of dreams without a sound.—SHELLEY, The Sensitive Plant
    

46. Many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese—toasted, mostly.—STEVENSON, Treasure Island
    

47. Those dreams, that on the silent night intrude,
    And with false flitting shades our minds delude,
    Jove never sends us downward from the skies;
    Nor can they from infernal mansions rise;
    But are all mere productions of the brain,
    And fools consult interpreters in vain.—SWIFT, On Dreams
    

48. The dream
    Dreamed by a happy man, when the dark East,
    Unseen, is brightening to his bridal morn.—TENNYSON, The Gardener's Daughter
    

49. Like glimpses of forgotten dreams.—TENNYSON, The Two Voices
    

50. Seeing, I saw not, hearing not, I heard.
    Tho', if I saw not, yet they told me all
    So often that I spake as having seen.—TENNYSON, The Princess
    

51. If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.—THOREAU, Walden
    

52. Did You Ever See a Dream Walking?—Title of Popular Song
    

53. Saddle your dreams afore you ride 'em.—MARY WEBB, Precious Bane
    

54. Hunt half a day for a forgotten dream.—WORDSWORTH, Hart-Leap Well
    

55. But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
    I have spread my dreams under your feet;
    Tread softly, for you tread on my dreams.—W. B. YEATS, The Cloths of Heaven