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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?
Edgar Allan Poe
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Adam Parker
(6/19/2009 4:44:00 PM) |
I see it more of life as the dream he's describing. That life is like a dream in so many ways, that it can be seen, and experienced like one.
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Tyler Sta
(6/1/2009 2:58:00 PM) |
grammar & punctuation is not correct and 'the' is 'thy' form what I recall from 5th grade. I recited this in front of an audience of my classmates, it was a big hit! As an author, I keep myself busy attempting Poe's greatness in poetry. Of course, that's impossible to attain.
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Lynn Glover
(5/24/2009 8:52:00 PM) |
Poe, the master, what a great poem it flows smoothly and is a pleasure to read.also read my A Zephyr is Blowing you'll like it.
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JOE POEWHIT
(5/1/2009 9:19:00 AM) |
POE, captured the illusiveness of a dream in the sand analogy. How dreams are like whispers of a breeze, blowing against our being. They seem to have a reality but only tickle our fancy of desires in their fulfillments.
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Mel Vincent Basconcillo
(5/1/2009 1:09:00 AM) |
this is one of my idols aside from Langston Hughes and Tupac Shakur! i love this poem! truly poetic and brilliantly done! ! marvelous!
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nothing over
(4/27/2009 11:07:00 PM) |
Great poem, check out my poems too
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Elbert Matt Loubser
(4/20/2009 7:43:00 AM) |
Ah yes this is very good! This poet knew how to structure
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Lu-Lu Martin
(4/4/2009 11:51:00 PM) |
Poe fans may be familiar with Alan Parson's Project 'Tales of Mystery & Imagination' concept album based on Poe's work,10 +++ in my opinion, same rating for the poem too of course! ..the album has a track named after this poem..if only I had a CD player now..I ought to buy one.
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