--- title: A Dream date: 2006-11-08T09:01:49Z modified: 2006-11-08T09:01:49Z permalink: "https://www.poetryoflife.com/a-dream/" type: post status: publish excerpt: "" wpid: 17 categories: - Life Poems author: Praveen Kumar timestamp: 2006-11-08T09:01:49Z tags: - Life Poems --- In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed- But a waking dream of life and light Hath left me broken-hearted. Ah! what is not a [dream](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/its-just-like-a-dream.md) by day To him whose eyes are cast On things around him with a ray Turned back upon the past? That holy [dream-](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/dream-weaver.md) that holy dream, While all the world were chiding, Hath cheered me as a lovely beam A lonely spirit guiding. What though that light, thro’ [storm](https://www.poetryoflife.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-mfa-exports/post/storm-passion.md) and night, So trembled from afar- What could there be more purely bright In Truth’s day-star?