Dreams

Source

Source: The World Tomorrow, vol. 6, no. 5 (New York: Fellowship Press, May 1923), p. 147 (Google Books full-view page image) Source URL: https://books.google.com/books?id=shkrAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA147 Public domain basis: First published in The World Tomorrow, May 1923; public domain in the United States (published before 1931). This is the 1923 first printing, not the later revised version. Coverage: Complete: the 1923 first printing, which addresses the listener as “my son” and “O boy”; it follows Hughes’s signed poem “Our Land” on the same page.

Dreams

Hold fast to dreams, my son, For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly.

Hold fast to dreams, O boy, For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.