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Poem by Thomas Moore


A Dream


I thought this heart enkindled lay
On Cupid's burning shrine:
I thought he stole thy heart away,
And placed it near to mine.

I saw thy heart begin to melt,
Like ice before the sun;
Till both a glow congenial felt,
And mingled into one!



Thomas Moore


Thomas Moore's other poems:
  1. From “Irish Melodies”. 115. Song of Innisfail
  2. From “The Odes of Anacreon”. Ode 65
  3. From “Irish Melodies”. 9. Though the Last Glimpse of Erin With Sorrow I See
  4. From “The Odes of Anacreon”. Ode 34
  5. From “Irish Melodies”. 99. ’Twas One of Those Dreams


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • William Allingham A Dream ("I heard the dogs howl in the moonlight night")
  • Robert Burns A Dream ("Guid-Mornin' to our Majesty!") 1786
  • Christina Rossetti A Dream ("Once in a dream (for once I dreamed of you)")
  • Matthew Arnold A Dream ("Was it a dream? We sail'd, I thought we sail'd")
  • Coventry Patmore A Dream ("Amid the mystic fields of Love")
  • Thomas Parnell A Dream ("Just when ye dead of night began to fail")
  • Edgar Poe A Dream ("In visions of the dark night")
  • Alice Cary A Dream ("I DREAMED I had a plot of ground")
  • Stephen Phillips A Dream ("MY dead love came to me, and said")
  • Bernard Barton A Dream ("A DREAM came lately in the hours")
  • Letitia Landon A Dream ("I was wand'ring in my sleep")
  • Mathilde Blind A Dream ("Only a dream, a beautiful baseless dream")
  • Lucretia Davidson A Dream ("Methought, unwitting how the place I gained")

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