Waking Dream of Life and Light

Always a fan of Poe and a search for his dream poems does not disappoint. Here's one I had yet to record.


A Dream — Edgar Allan Poe

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? ...More