Edgar Allan Poe - A Dream within a Dream - Great American Poets
"A Dream Within a Dream" is a poem written by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1849. It's a contemplation on the fleeting nature of time and the elusive quality of reality. The speaker questions whether life itself is merely an illusion, comparing it to a dream within a dream. The poem's somber tone and existential themes have made it one of Poe's most celebrated works.
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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?
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Read by Louise J. Belle
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