Robert Rand. Graves of Dreams. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22.

Graves of Dreams

By Robert Rand


SO softly bright the golden twilight hung
Over the graveyard where my dead dreams lay.
In other times I often passed that way—
You see, they died so pitifully young!

But now I shun the graying line on line,	5
For sterner tombs are rising, crowding there,
And dreams are dead full-grown, and fair—oh, fair!
Soon shall they all be dead, and none be mine.