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ReadingWillow structured literacy program for Australian students

A Dream Within A Dream

Edgar Allan Poe·1809–1849
Lines:24Movement:Romanticism
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 deepWhile I weep--while I weep!O God! can I not graspThem with a tighter clasp?O God! can I not save_One_ from the pitiless wave?Is _all_ that we see or seemBut a dream within a dream?