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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 1900s · 22 with this theme Show all eras

A Red Flower

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A Red Flower

by Claude McKay · English

15 September 1890 - 22 May 1948 (~58)

A Sleep Song

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A Sleep Song

by Nora Hopper Chesson · English

2 January 1871 - 14 April 1906 (~35)

Ceol-Sidhe

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Ceol-Sidhe

by Nora Hopper Chesson · English

2 January 1871 - 14 April 1906 (~35)

Dream Tragedies

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Dream Tragedies

by W. H. Davies · English

3 July 1871 - 26 September 1940 (~69)

Dream-Confused

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Dream-Confused

by D. H. Lawrence · English

11 September 1885 - 2 March 1930 (~45)

Dreams

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Dreams

by Edgar A. Guest · English

20 August 1881 - 5 August 1959 (~78)

Dreams

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Dreams

by Sara Teasdale · English

8 August 1884 - 29 January 1933 (~49)

Guinevere

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Guinevere

by Nora Hopper Chesson · English

2 January 1871 - 14 April 1906 (~35)

I fellowed sleep

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I fellowed sleep

by Dylan Thomas · English

27 October 1914 - 9 November 1953 (~39)

I Hear an Army

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I Hear an Army

by James Joyce · English

2 February 1882 - 13 January 1941 (~59)

Idealists

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Idealists

by Alfred Kreymborg · English

10 December 1883 - 14 August 1966 (~83)

In the grey skirts of the fog

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In the grey skirts of the fog

by John Gould Fletcher · English

3 January 1886 - 20 May 1950 (~64)

John-John

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John-John

by Thomas MacDonagh · English

1 February 1878 - 3 May 1916 (~38)

L'Abeille

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L'Abeille

by Paul Valéry · French

30 October 1871 - 20 July 1945 (~74)

Not, to me, less lavish

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Not, to me, less lavish

by Edna St. Vincent Millay · English

22 February 1892 - 19 October 1950 (~58)

Old Song

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Old Song

by Hart Crane · English

21 July 1899 - 27 April 1932 (~33)

Reverie

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Reverie

by William Soutar · English

28 April 1898 - 15 October 1943 (~45)

The Dream

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The Dream

by Edna St. Vincent Millay · English

22 February 1892 - 19 October 1950 (~58)

The Dream Hunt

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The Dream Hunt

by Ford Madox Hueffer · English

17 December 1873 - 26 June 1939 (~66)

The Gardener's Cat

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The Gardener's Cat

by Patrick Reginald Chalmers · English

27 June 1872 - 12 September 1942 (~70)

The Seeker

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The Seeker

by James Stephens · English

2 February 1882 - 26 December 1950 (~68)

The Wind Sprang up at Four O'clock

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The Wind Sprang up at Four O'clock

by T. S. Eliot · English

26 September 1888 - 4 January 1965 (~77)

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