Dream Girl
Dream Girl - meaning Summary
Anticipation of Idealized Love
Sandburg’s poem addresses an imagined beloved with yearning and vivid natural imagery. The speaker envisions a graceful, lively woman who arrives with sunlight, breeze, and changing moods, embodying an idealized dream. Yet the tone shifts to doubt; the speaker accepts the possibility that this imagined encounter may never occur and that their connection might remain a brief, hopeful glance or a remembered day rather than a fulfilled meeting.
Read Complete AnalysesYou will come one day in a waver of love, Tender as dew, impetuous as rain, The tan of the sun will be on your skin, The purr of the breeze in your murmuring speech, You will pose with a hill-flower grace. You will come, with your slim, expressive arms, A poise of the head no sculptor has caught And nuances spoken with shoulder and neck, Your face in a pass-and-repass of moods As many as skies in delicate change Of cloud and blue and flimmering sun. Yet, You may not come, O girl of a dream, We may but pass as the world goes by And take from a look of eyes into eyes, A film of hope and a memoried day.
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