Poems (Tynan)/A Day-Dreamer

by Katharine Tynan

A DAY-DREAMER

Since coming from the land of dreams is lonely, And the world's daylight very cold and gray, I will return beyond the sun's rim only  Into the gold dusk of my yesterday,

I will return through yonder purple coppice,— But O, thou love-worn nightingale, be still!—Into a world of silken, scarlet poppies,  Wherein who loveth dreams shall have his fill.