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...Morrison's unnamed poem and Mr. Behn's "Mid-Day". Mr. Morrison's truly poetic thought is spent in his first stanza, whereas "Mid-Day" is more "consistent. "To Teon Apostate" has rhetorical possibilities with more of a philosophical message than the rest. "I Spent a Day in Dreamland" by A. M. Dobson is a pretty musical rhyme with just a little wastefulness at the end. It is pleasant to read but leaves no splendorous impression. The "Rondeau" and "Vacation Rain" by a single author are pessimistic bits, flung out random-like by a facile brain...

Author: By Francis H. Soheetz l., | Title: MAY ADVOCATE FREE FROM AFFECTATION | 5/21/1921 | See Source »

...uncomfortable as it looks, however, altho' its seat has been hardened by the weight of two or three generations. And now, tired out by this everlasting theme writing, I lie down upon it, draw my afghan over me, and seek that dreamland whither I fear my reader has long since preceded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: My Sofa. | 3/26/1885 | See Source »

...dreams. Since that dream, indeed, millions of sons of Adam have dreamed fancies that would create scores of Arabian Nights; have been the heroes nightly of thrilling adventures, which. were they written out, would cover the earth with a carpet of crocus-colored literature; have invented in dreamland enough mechanical appliances to increase the poverty of civilized lands to an extraordinary degree: have delivered in sleep more eloquently persuasive harangues than Demosthenes or Cicero ever imagined possible; in short, have done in dreams everything that man has done or that man will do. And yet we are almost as ignorant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On Dreams. | 3/26/1885 | See Source »

...dreamland hills remember...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: APART. | 4/22/1881 | See Source »

...walk thro' dreamland ways...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEPTEMBER IN NEW HAMPSHIRE. | 5/7/1880 | See Source »

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