A Dream Within A Dreamby Edgar Allan Poe(1827)

Take this kiss upon the brow!And, in parting from you now,Thus much let me avow —You are not wrong, who deemThat my days have been a dream;Yet if hope has flown awayIn a night, or in a day,In a vision, or in none,Is it therefore the less gone?All that we see or seemIs but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roarOf a surf-tormented shore,And I hold within my handGrains of the golden sand —How few! Yet how they creepThrough my fingers to the deep,While I weep — while I weep!O God! Can I not graspThem with a tighter clasp?O God! Can I not saveOne from the pitiless wave?Is all that we see or seemBut a dream within a dream?

A Dream Within A Dreamis illustrated by Neale Blanden in POE’S TALES OF MYSTERY: Graphic Classics© Volume 21 (ISBN 978-0-9825630-2-1)http://www.graphicclassics.com

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