Text: Edgar Allan Poe (ed. James H. Whitty), “A Dream,” The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911, p. 126


∞∞∞∞∞∞∞


[page 126, unnumbered:]

A DREAM

IN visions of the dark night

I have dreamed of joy departed —

But a waking dreams of life and light

Hath left me broken-hearted.

[[v]]

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.

[[v]]

What though that light, thro’ storm and night,

[[v]]

So trembled from afar —

What could there be more purely bright

In Truths day-star?

 


∞∞∞∞∞∞∞


Notes:

None.

 

∞∞∞∞∞∞∞

[S:0 - JHW11, 1911] - Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - Works - A Dream (ed. J. H. Whitty, 1911)