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?

Edgar Allan Poe

Tenderness, colors helys · 2012-05-18: 09:01

Magnificent ! "Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream?" Dropblue · 2012-05-18: 09:17

Simply beautiful .... Lovely shot and poem! Patricia132 · 2012-05-18: 12:00

Excellent post! inawe · 2012-05-18: 12:17

good work SergioDC · 2012-05-18: 18:43

Lovely! pandka · 2012-05-21: 04:45