<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=37361" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Dream</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">DEAR love, for nothing less than thee<br>Would I have broke this happy dream;<br> It was a theme<br>For reason, much too strong for fantasy.<br>Therefore thou waked'st me wisely; yet<br>My dream thou brokest not, but continued'st it.<br>Thou art so true that thoughts of thee suffice<br>To make dreams truths, and fables histories;<br>Enter these arms, for since thou thought'st it best,<br>Not to dream all my dream, let's act the rest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As lightning, or a taper's light,<br>Thine eyes, and not thy noise waked me;<br> Yet I thought thee<br>—For thou lovest truth—an angel, at first sight;<br>But when I saw thou saw'st my heart,<br>And knew'st my thoughts beyond an angel's art,<br>When thou knew'st what I dreamt, when thou knew'st when<br>Excess of joy would wake me, and camest then,<br>I must confess, it could not choose but be<br>Profane, to think thee any thing but thee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Coming and staying show'd thee, thee,<br>But rising makes me doubt, that now<br> Thou art not thou.<br>That love is weak where fear's as strong as he;<br>'Tis not all spirit, pure and brave,<br>If mixture it of fear, shame, honour have;<br>Perchance as torches, which must ready be,<br>Men light and put out, so thou deal'st with me;<br>Thou camest to kindle, go'st to come; then I<br>Will dream that hope again, but else would die.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Donne">John Donne</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=37361" data-title="The Dream de John Donne" data-description="DEAR love, for nothing less than thee/Would I have broke this happy dream;/ It was a theme/For reason, much too strong for fantasy./Therefore thou waked'st me wisely; yet/My dream thou brokest not, but continued'st it./Thou art so true that thoug..."></div> </div> </div>

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