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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A DREAM, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In visions of the dark night Last Line: In truth's day-star? [1927-1845] Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares | |||
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? [1927-1845] | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...VARIATIONS: 14 by CONRAD AIKEN VARIATIONS: 18 by CONRAD AIKEN LIVE IT THROUGH by DAVID IGNATOW A DREAM OF GAMES by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN THE DREAM OF WAKING by RANDALL JARRELL APOLOGY FOR BAD DREAMS by ROBINSON JEFFERS GIVE YOUR WISH LIGHT by ROBINSON JEFFERS |
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