Paul Laurence Dunbar
Dreams (#1)
Dream on, for dreams are sweet:
 Do not awaken!
Dream on, and at thy feet
 Pomegranates shall be shaken.
Who likeneth the youth
 Of life to morning?
'Tis like the night in truth,
 Rose-coloured dreams adorning.
The wind is soft above,
 The shadows umber.
(There is a dream called Love.)
 Take thou the fullest slumber!
In Lethe's soothing stream,
 Thy thirst thou slakest.
Sleep, sleep; 't is sweet to dream.
 Oh, weep when thou awakest!