A Dream / Poe, Edgar Allen

Author: Poe, Edgar Allen
Title: A Dream
Publisher: Eris Etext Project
Tag(s): dream; american literature
Contributor(s): Eric Lease Morgan (Infomotions, Inc.)
Versions: original; local mirror; HTML (this file); printable
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Rights: GNU General Public License
Size: 103 words (really short) Grade range: 8-9 (grade school) Readability score: 75 (easy)
Identifier: poe-dream-419
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                                      1827
                                    A DREAM
                               by 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?

                    -THE END-
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