Here you will find thePoemA Dream Observedof poet Anne Ridler
Out from his bed the breaking seas By waking eyes unseen Now fall, aquatic creatures whirl And he whirls through the ambient green. The sea lion and the scolopendra Lolling in sleep he sees Strange in their ways, and the swift changes Their landscape makes, from shells to trees. Down English lanes a camel walks, Or untrammelled flies. But I, wakeful and watching, see How chilly out of the clothes he lies. Easy an act to cover him warm: Such a lover's small success Like the heaped mind so humble in sleep But points our actual powerlessness. Monsters in dreams he sees, yet lies At peace in his curling bed; Blessings that outdo all distress Implicit in his sleeping head.
