The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe/Volume 2/A Dream

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The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe
Volume II. Poems and Tales
A Dream
1699The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe
Volume II. Poems and Tales — A Dream
A Dream by Edgar Allen Poe

A DREAM.


In visions of the dark night
I have dreamed of joy departed—
But a waking dream of life and light
Hath left me broken-hearted.

Ah! what is not a dream by day
To him whose eyes are cast
On things around him with a ray
Turned back upon the past?

That holy dream—that holy dream,
While all the world were chiding,
Hath cheered me as a lovely beam
A lonely spirit guiding.

What though that light, thro' storm and night,
So trembled from afar—
What could there be more purely bright
In Truth's day-star?