Edgar Allan Poe (1809 – 1849) was an American writer and poet known for his dark tales and horror stories.
In Poe's famous poem A Dream Within a Dream the narrator deals with loss and despair and questions whether everything is real or just a dream. Read an analysis of this poem at Poemanalysis.
Instruments used in this song: female vocals, piano, electric piano and cello.
A Dream Within a Dream – Poem By Edgar Allan Poe
Take this kiss upon the brow!
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?
