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577. A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allen Poe
Edgar Allen Poe read by Classic Poetry Aloud:
http://www.classicpoetryaloud.com
Giving voice to the classic poetry of the past.
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A Dream Within a Dream
by Edgar Allan Poe (1809 – 1849)
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?
Reading © Classic Poetry Aloud 2009
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Edgar Allen Poe read by Classic Poetry Aloud:
http://www.classicpoetryaloud.com
Giving voice to the classic poetry of the past.
---------------------------------------------
A Dream Within a Dream
by Edgar Allan Poe (1809 – 1849)
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?
Reading © Classic Poetry Aloud 2009
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