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A Dream

February 17, 2022

Hear “A Dream” Read Aloud.

A Dream

 

In visions of the dark night

I have dream’d of joy departed —

But a waking dream of life and light

Hath left me broken hearted:

 

And what is not a dream by day

To him whose eyes are cast

On things around him with a ray

Turn’d back upon the past?

 

That holy dream — that holy dream,

While all the world were chiding,

Hath cheer’d me as a lovely beam

A lonely spirit guiding:

 

What tho’ that light, thro’ storm and night

So trembled from afar —

What could there be more purely bright

In Truth’s day-star? —


Edgar Allan Poe

Published 1829 (Earlier version published as “Untitled” in 1827)

Image by W. Heath Robinson

Filed Under: The Poe Museum Blog Tagged With: Poe's Works

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