Poem-A-Day: The Dreamer by Djuna Barnes

March 1, 2014 The Dreamer by Djuna Barnes     The night comes down, in ever-darkening shapes that seem--  To grope, with eerie fingers for the window--then--  To rest to sleep, enfolding me, as in a dream  Faith--might I awaken!    And drips the rain with seeming sad, insistent beat.  Shivering across the pane, drooping tear-wise,  And softly patters by, like little fearing feet.  Faith--this weather!    The feathery ash is fluttered; there upon the pane,--  The dying fire casts a flickering ghostly beam,--  Then closes in the night and gently falling rain.  Faith--what darkness!       Today's poem is in the public domain. About This Poem  "The Dreamer" was originally published in Harper's Weekly in 1911, when Djuna Barnes was nineteen years old. This poem was Barnes's first published text. Poetry by Barnes     Collected Poems: With Notes Toward the Memoirs (University of Wisconsin Press, 2005)     Poem-A-Day Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-A-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. Browse the Poem-A-Day Archive.     Djuna Barnes was born in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, in 1892. Although she is best remembered for her novel Nightwood (1937), Barnes wrote many poems, stories, and plays before her death in 1982. Related Poems A Book Said Dream and I Do by Barbara Ras Monna Innominata [I dream of you, to wake] by Christina Rossetti  Dream Variations by Langston Hughes  __________________________ Love reading Poem-A-Day? Help support it today.     Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.

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