A Dream Within A Dream

by Edgar Allan Poe
(1850)


Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow –
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand –
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep — while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?

2 comments so far

  1. shanks February 2, 2007 5:38 pm

    you are truly a literary star to follow in the darkest of nights mr poisoner.

  2. shanks February 2, 2007 5:39 pm

    got any coleridge up your sleeve. lets get some Kubla Khan action popping off up in this beeyotch.

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