| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910. | | | | You Pleasing Dreams of Love and Sweet Delight | | By John Dryden (1631–1700) |
| | | YOU 1 pleasing dreams of love and sweet delight, | |
| Appear before this slumbering virgin’s sight; | |
| Soft visions set her free | |
| From mournful piety. | |
| Let her sad thoughts from heaven retire, | 5 |
| And let the melancholy love | |
| Of those remoter joys above | |
| Give place to your more sprightly fire. | |
| Let purling streams be in her fancy seen, | |
| And flowery meads, and vales of cheerful green, | 10 |
| And in the midst of deathless groves | |
| Soft sighing wishes lie, | |
| And smiling hopes fast by, | |
| And just beyond them ever-laughing loves. | |
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