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“dream” across the centuries

Bar length = percentage of poems in that cohort whose critique surfaced this theme. Click an era to focus the poem list below (click again to show samples from all eras).

pre-1500 0 / 29 BCE 0 / 12 1500s 0 / 10 1550s 2 / 89 1600s 2 / 176 1650s 0 / 57 1700s 0 / 34 1750s 3 / 163 1800s 10 / 684 1850s 21 / 939 1900s 22 / 1119 1950s 0 / 15

Poems in 1850s · 21 with this theme Show all eras

A Dream

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A Dream

by Stephen Phillips · English

28 July 1864 - 9 December 1915 (~51)

A Love Dream

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A Love Dream

by James Edwin Campbell · English

28 September 1867 - 26 January 1896 (~29)

Angela Sanger

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Angela Sanger

by Edgar Lee Masters · English

23 August 1868 - 5 March 1950 (~82)

Beautiful Dreamer

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Beautiful Dreamer

by Stephen Collins Foster · English

4 July 1826 - 13 January 1864 (~38)

Beggar to Beggar Cried

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Beggar to Beggar Cried

by William Butler Yeats · English

13 June 1865 - 28 January 1939 (~74)

By Twilight

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By Twilight

by Algernon Charles Swinburne · English

5 April 1837 - 10 April 1909 (~72)

Clear and Gentle Stream

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Clear and Gentle Stream

by Robert Bridges · English

23 October 1844 - 21 April 1930 (~86)

Dream Song

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Dream Song

by John Wesley Holloway · English

28 July 1865 - 31 October 1935 (~70)

Dream-Land

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Dream-Land

by Christina Rossetti · English

5 December 1830 - 29 December 1894 (~64)

Half Awake

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Half Awake

by Anne Whitney · English

2 September 1821 - 23 January 1915 (~94)

He Has Fallen from the Height of His Love

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He Has Fallen from the Height of His Love

by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt · English

17 August 1840 - 10 September 1922 (~82)

Horrors

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Horrors

by Lewis Carroll · English

27 January 1832 - 14 January 1898 (~66)

Love in Dreams

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Love in Dreams

by Arthur Symons · English

28 February 1865 - 22 January 1945 (~80)

Mirage

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Mirage

by Christina Rossetti · English

5 December 1830 - 29 December 1894 (~64)

My Dream

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My Dream

by Christina Rossetti · English

5 December 1830 - 29 December 1894 (~64)

Ode

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Ode

by Arthur O'Shaughnessy · English

14 March 1844 - 30 January 1881 (~37)

Solipsism

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Solipsism

by George Santayana · English

16 December 1863 - 26 September 1952 (~89)

The Azalea

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The Azalea

by Coventry Patmore · English

23 July 1823 - 26 November 1896 (~73)

The Sailor's Return

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The Sailor's Return

by Sydney Dobell · English

5 April 1824 - 22 August 1874 (~50)

The White Peacock

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The White Peacock

by William Sharp · English

12 September 1855 - 12 December 1905 (~50)

Vitae Summa Brevis

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Vitae Summa Brevis

by Ernest Dowson · English

2 August 1867 - 23 February 1900 (~33)

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