Beautiful Dreamer
Sentimental slumber serenade
Beautiful Dreamer is a sentimental parlor song composed by Stephen Foster in 1864, among the last he wrote before his death.
The title has become shorthand for someone lost in pleasant reverie or romantic idealism: She's a beautiful dreamer, always imagining how things could be.
The phrase evokes gentle escapism rather than practical ambition.
- lullabySoothing song for babies
- melodyPleasing sequence of notes
- piano balladSlow emotional keyboard song
- sleepRecurring unconscious repose
- reverieAbstracted, pleasant daydream
lost in thought · moonlight · starlight · night sky · serenade · gentle · slumber · half asleep · peaceful · tender · wistful · romantic · parlor · ballad · nocturne · wanderer · longing · ethereal
- Americana Musicspirituals, folk ballads, hymn books, Camptown Races, Dixie
- LullabiesRock-a-Bye Baby, Hush Little Baby, Brahms Lullaby, Lullaby and Goodnight, Golden Slumbers
Beautiful DreamerThe Star-Spangled Banner
United States national anthem
La Marseillaise · God Save the King · Semper Fidelis · military march · anthem
Beautiful DreamerDies Irae
Requiem Mass sequence
war cry · protest song · We Will Rock You · dirge · War Pigs
beautiful, dreamer, beauty, dream, beautify, beautifully, beauteous, dreaming, dreams