A Dream Within A Dream by Edgar Allan Poe

A reading of:

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?

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[Chkizo]

inception!

[guzsaj]

@InspiredMuse74 to me this shows that this is a genuine feeling, others have thought of it as well, independent from each other. It can also be frightening to think about it... but that's part of the beauty too.

[jab2993]

@Chkizo exactly my thoughts

[zazonion12]

@Chkizo He does sound like Leonardo Decaprio

[ammmunition]

I loooooove it!

[02Blackbeard]

Maya....

[TheExoticAnimal]

@COMMUNISTPHILOSOPHY things were wayyyyy different in the old old days than they are now

[TheExoticAnimal]

I think it might be weird to say this but, His voice is very smooth. It kinda makes me wanna see the person whos speaking.

[kosib93]

@Chkizo I came on just to write this.

[psesi]

rene descartes would have been proud

[yaplamf]

@COMMUNISTPHILOSOPHY it was to stop her marrying someone else. There's no real proof that their marriage was consummated.