A Description of my Dreams, a poem by Rosa Emma Salaman (1848)

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	A Description of my Dreams
	Oh, wake me not, my sisters dear, Nor call me when I sleep, And if no more I waken here, I pray you not to weep.
	For oh! I have such happy dreams, So fraught with joy and love! For to another world it seems I nightly do remove.
	So tranquilly, so silently, I join that world of bliss, That, were it not for so much joy, I still might think it this.
	I hear no voice, no single sound Is borne upon the air, But love and kindness all around, Seem breathing everywhere.
	They gently come and take my hand To clasp within their own; They are not here, that shadowy band— I wake—and they are flown.
	I think that spirits when we sleep Are watching from above, And if they thus their vigils keep, Their watchword must be love.
	Oh, surely on the midnight wind Pure spirits must be borne, To pour down joy upon the mind, Which vanishes with morn.
	They are not words, or looks, or tones, Which sink into my soul, Yet, when I wake my spirit moans To reach that happy goal.
	There seems a sense of thrilling bliss, Unearthly and refined, A mingling of that world with this, All heart—all soul—all mind!
	Even the summer flowers I love Are placed within my hand, And calmly, silently, I rove About that blessed land.
	Then wake me not, my sisters dear, Whene’er I sleep again: My waking hours are cold and drear— In sleep I know not pain.

The poem, “A Description of my Dreams” by Rosa Emma Salaman, was first published in the Occident and American Jewish Advocate Vol. 6:4, Tamuz 5608, July 1848, p.175-177.

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Aharon N. Varady (editing/transcription)

Aharon Varady (M.A.J.Ed./JTSA Davidson) is a volunteer transcriber for the Open Siddur Project. If you find any mistakes in his transcriptions, please let him know. Shgiyot mi yavin; Ministarot naqeni שְׁגִיאוֹת מִי־יָבִין; מִנִּסְתָּרוֹת נַקֵּנִי "Who can know all one's flaws? From hidden errors, correct me" (Psalms 19:13). If you'd like to directly support his work, please consider donating via his Patreon account. (Varady also translates prayers and contributes his own original work besides serving as the primary shammes of the Open Siddur Project and its website, opensiddur.org.)

Rosa Emma Salaman

Rosa Emma Collins née Salaman (1815-1898), was a poet and translator of Hebrew and German. Poems, published in 1853, was reportedly the only book accepted by Queen Victoria in the year of mourning following Prince Albert's death in 1861. In the United States, her poetry appeared in Isaac Leeser's Occident and American Jewish Advocate. The daughter of Simeon Kensington Salaman (b.1789) and Alice Cowan, Rosa Emma was one of fourteen siblings in a large and literary Jewish family in London, part of the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish community. Two sisters, Kate Salaman and Julia Goodman, were painters -- the former of miniatures and the latter, a prolific portraitist. Her brother, Charles Kensington Salaman, was a British composer and pianist. Her husband, Judah Julius Collins, was a warden of the Western Marble Arch Synagogue in London's West End, and purported to be a descendant of the Baal Shem of London. Their son, Edwin Collins, was a Jewish educator.

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