A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM - Edgar Allan Poe
A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM
- EDGAR ALLAN POE
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,
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?
A Poem by Edgar Allan Poe