A Dream Within A Dream English Poem by Edgar Allan Poe
 A Dream Within A Dream   English Poem  by    Edgar Allan Poe     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?