Poe: A Dream

A brief poem.

A Dream

Edgar Allan Poe

Published in 1849

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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?

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Coming soon to Edgar Allan Poe Daily:

10/02: a bonus poem for my birthday! (“Me” being the guy who publishes Poe Daily, not the long dead author.)

10/07: a very short story.

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