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June 22nd 2008 00:03
A Dream Within A Dream
by 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,
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?
The tormented mind, the obsessive spirit,
Love is reality and reality is love,
Blissful, surreal and overwhelming,
The fogged perception of truth.
Intangible existence, existential vision,
Our memories and subjective life,
All that we are, a culmination of emotional experience,
Dwell in the mind of the past, to embrace bliss and sorrow
by Edgar Allan Poe
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,
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?
Review in Poem by Dexter
The tormented mind, the obsessive spirit,
Love is reality and reality is love,
Blissful, surreal and overwhelming,
The fogged perception of truth.
Intangible existence, existential vision,
Our memories and subjective life,
All that we are, a culmination of emotional experience,
Dwell in the mind of the past, to embrace bliss and sorrow
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