page_title: A Dream (Blake poem)
section_title: The poem
hierarchical_section_title: A Dream (Blake poem) / The poem
caption_attribution_description: English: Songs of Innocence and of Experience, copy AA, 1826 (The Fitzwilliam Museum) object 26 Dream
context_page_description: "A Dream" is a poem by English poet William Blake. The poem was first published in 1789 as part of Blake's collection of poems entitled Songs of Innocence.
context_section_description: Once a dream did weave a shade,
  
  O'er my Angel-guarded bed,
  
  That an Emmet lost it's way
  
  Where on grass methought I lay.
  
  Troubled wilderd and forlorn
  
  Dark benighted travel-worn,
  
  Over many a tangled spray
  
  All heart-broke I heard her say.
  
  O my children! do they cry
  
  Do they hear their father sigh.
  
  Now they look abroad to see,
  
  Now return and weep for me.
  
  Pitying I dropp'd a tear:
  
  But I saw a glow-worm near:
  
  Who replied. What wailing wight
  
  Calls the watchman of the night.
  
  I am set to light the ground,
  
  While the beetle goes his round:
  
  Follow now the beetles hum,
  
  Little wanderer hie thee home.
caption: An 1826 version of "A Dream" from Copy AA of Songs of Innocence and of Experience currently held at The Fitzwilliam Museum.[4]
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