''The Dream'' is a poem written by

Lord Byron George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), known simply as Lord Byron, was an English romantic poet and Peerage of the United Kingdom, peer. He was one of the leading figures of the Romantic movement, and h ...

in 1816. It has been described as expressing "central Romantic beliefs about dreams". It also describes the view from the

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, close to Byron's ancestral home in Newstead,

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. Mary Chaworth of

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, a distant relation for whom Byron had a boyhood passion, is the "Maid" of the poem. s:The Dream (Byron)

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Poetry by Lord Byron 1816 poems {{UK-poem-stub