Edgar Allan Poe Poems

Edgar Allan Poe Poems
Poems - Analysis & Criticism
The Poetic Principle
Old English Poetry

Poems
The Raven
The Bells
Ulalume
To Helen
Annabel Lee
A Valentine
An Enigma
To My Mother
For Annie
To F----
To Frances S. Osgood
Eldorado
Eulalie
A Dream Within A Dream
To Marie Louise (Shew)
The City In The Sea
The Sleeper
Bridal Ballad
Poems Of Manhood
To One In Paradise
The Coliseum
The Haunted Palace
The Conqueror Worm
Silence
Dream-Land

Poems
To Zante
Scenes From "Politian"
Sonnet -- To Science
Al Aaraaf
Tamerlane
To Helen
The Valley Of Unrest
Israfel*
To ---
To The River ----
Song
Spirits Of The Dead
A Dream
Romance
Fairy-Land
The Lake -- To ----
Evening Star
"The Happiest Day"
Imitation
Hymn To Aristogeiton And Harmodius
Dreams
"In Youth I Have Known One"
A Pćan
Alone
Hymn
To Isadore
The Village Street
The Forest Reverie

 

A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM

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?