A dream within a dream
Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “A dream within a dream” was first published in the 31 March 1849 edition of the Boston-based story paper “The Flag of Our Union”.
Edgar Allan Poe was born on 19 January 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts, US, and he died on 7 October 1849 in Baltimore, Maryland, US, at the age of 40.A writer, poet, editor, and critic, Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre, and is widely regarded as a central figure of American Romanticism. He was one of the country’s earliest practitioners of the short story, was considered to be the inventor of the detective fiction genre, and was a significant contributor to the emerging genre of science fiction.
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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?