A Dream within a Dream by Edgar Alan Poe

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
Is but a dream within a dream.

by Edgar Allan Poe

Poetry of the day REVIEW:

I think this man realized the self similar nature of reality. Reality is just a dream with in a dream with in a dream, and when you die, you will continue to dream, and continue to exist in this continuous dream.

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WORD OF THE DAY IS:

jobbery
   \ JOB-uh-ree \  , noun;





1.
The conduct of public or official business for the sake of improper private gain.

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