(19 January 1809 - 7 October 1849 / Boston)

Previous Month May 2013 Next Month
Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su
30 31 1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
27 28 29 30 31 1 2
Poem of the Day
Select a day from the calendar.
Would you like to see the poem of the day in your e-mail box every morning?
Your email address:
  Subscribe FREE
  Unsubscribe
What do you think this poem is about?

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
But a dream within a dream?

Submitted: Tuesday, December 31, 2002


Read poems about / on: dream, kiss, hope, god, night

Comments about this poem (A Dream Within A Dream by Edgar Allan Poe )

Enter the verification code :

  • Haley Smutzer (6/12/2013 1:27:00 PM)

    I love this. It is the type of poem that sends shivers down my spine and then lingers there throughout the day.

    5 person liked.
    1 person did not like.
  • Mohamad Tabatabai (6/10/2013 3:23:00 AM)

    beautiful, intoxicating indeed

    4 person liked.
    1 person did not like.
  • Jasmin Read (5/29/2013 8:56:00 AM)

    I LOVE this poem! ! Last 2 lines are my favourite xx

    4 person liked.
    3 person did not like.
  • Rokie Nokishi (5/26/2013 11:38:00 PM)

    Brilliant. I've always loved the way this man portrayed his turmoiled thoughts within his poetry. I love it.

    7 person liked.
    2 person did not like.
  • Corey Day (5/14/2013 7:21:00 AM)

    This poem is kind of confusing at first, but it is also very deep. I love how it really makes you think about its meaning.

    32 person liked.
    12 person did not like.
  • Olaf Vanhoochie (5/8/2013 11:09:00 AM)

    ello mate the yowie got me

    11 person liked.
    25 person did not like.
  • Carlos Echeverria (5/1/2013 10:46:00 AM)

    Poe was not just a master of the macabre, but this expression of existential angst made him an artist ahead of his times.

    29 person liked.
    23 person did not like.
  • West Phalen (3/26/2013 7:39:00 PM)

    Another amazing poetic way of referring to the concept of a dream within a dream:

    Sueña Alonso Quijano

    El hombre se despierta de un incierto
    sueño de alfanjes y de campo llano
    y se toca la barba con la mano
    y se pregunta si está herido o muerto.
    ¿No lo perseguirán los hechiceros
    que han jurado su mal bajo la luna?
    Nada. Apenas el frío. Apenas una
    dolencia de sus años postrimeros.
    El hidalgo fue un sueño de Cervantes
    y don Quijote un sueño del hidalgo.
    El doble sueño se confunde y algo
    está pasando que pasó mucho antes.
    Quijano duerme y sueña. Una batalla:
    los mares de Lepanto y la metralla.

    Jorge Luis Borges (La rosa profunda) .

    25 person liked.
    46 person did not like.
  • West Phalen (3/26/2013 7:01:00 PM)

    Edgar Allan Poe

    Pompas del mármol, negra anatomía
    que ultrajan los gusanos sepulcrales,
    del triunfo de la muerte los glaciales
    símbolos congregó. No los temía.

    Temía la sombra, la amorosa,
    las comunes venturas de la gente;
    no lo cegó el metal resplandeciente
    ni el mármol sepulcral sino la rosa.

    Como del otro lado del espejo
    se entregó solitario a su complejo
    destino de inventor de pesadillas.

    Quizá, del otro lado de la muerte,
    siga erigiendo solitario y fuerte
    espléndidas y atroces maravillas.

    Jorge Luis Borges (El otro, el mismo) .

    13 person liked.
    60 person did not like.
  • Matthew Donovan (3/19/2013 1:12:00 PM)

    Perhaps my favorite right now, excellent stuff.

    63 person liked.
    26 person did not like.
Read all 156 comments »
[Hata Bildir]