Thursday, February 14, 2008

A Dream Within a Dream

Came across this piece yesterday, after a long time...

 

 

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

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

ahh man.. i thought u'd written this until i reached the second stanza :D (didn't notice the disclaimer)!!

and about the poem, i luved it... thanks for bringing it up for us to read :)

Chhakku Pakku said...

beautiful....
recalled the long lost memory once again!

thanks for bringing it here!