A Dream within a Dream
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand-
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep-while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?.
Motion graphics created using Flash text is the second stanza of the poem
'A Dream Within a Dream' by Edgar Allan Poe voiceover by Orson Welles
from Alan Parsons Project track of the same name as the poem photos taken
on Cape Cod Massachusetts
Noctem Aeternus (Eternal Night) - Midnight Syndicate.
A Dream Within A Dream
Selected Edgar Allan Poe Works
Tales
Berenice
The Black Cat
The Cask of Amontillado
The Fall of the House of
Usher
The Gold-Bug
Hop-Frog
Ligeia
The Man of the Crowd
The Masque of the Red Death
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Purloined Letter
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Oblong Box
The Premature Burial
The Oval Portrait
Poetry
A Dream within a Dream
Annabel Lee
The Bells
The City in the Sea
The Conqueror Worm
Eldorado
The Haunted Palace
Lenore
The Raven
Ulalume
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