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This is the central motive of "Thanatopsis," "To a Waterfowl," "The Rivulet," "A Forest Hymn," "An Evening Revery," "The Crowded Street," "The Flood of Years."

From The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters by Perry, Bliss

Revery is the equivalent of weak desires; dreamers are the abulics of the creative imagination.

From Essay on the Creative Imagination by Baron, Albert Heyem Nachmen

For 1835 he contributed to it "The Haunted Mind" and "The Mermaid, A Revery," now known as "The Village Uncle," anonymously, and "Alice Doane's Appeal" as by the author of "The Gentle Boy."

From Nathaniel Hawthorne by Woodberry, George Edward

Reverie, Revery, rev′e-ri, n. an irregular train of thoughts or fancies in meditation: voluntary inactivity of the external senses to the impressions of surrounding objects during wakefulness: mental abstraction: a waking dream: a brown study.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

Revery filled his eyes, and in his whole face was sadness unmasked, because only the animals were there to perceive his true feelings.

From Lin McLean by Wister, Owen