Recognizing the importance of Bion's hypothesis, (1962a, 1962b), that access to derivatives of unconscious dream thinking offers the opportunity to transform raw un-digestible affect into thinking that may provide hope of promoting maturational processes and discovery of creative alternatives to futile struggles in relationships, the author seeks to explore the nature and use of reverie and its derivatives in the lives and work of three lyric poets, William Wordsworth, William Butler Yeats, and Robert Frost. In this study the author considers the hypothesis that the primary task of dream thinking is to integrate the diverse truths of lived emotional experience in the outer world, as in an episode of emotional turbulence, within a deepening connection with a good object in the inner world.