Edgar Allan Poe – A Dream

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“In visions of the dark night
I have dream’d of joy departed —
But a waking dream of life and light
Hath left me broken hearted…“
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“A Dream” is a poem written by Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published in 1827, in Tamerlane and Other Poems.

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A Dream
by
Edgar Allan Poe

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In visions of the dark night
I have dream’d of joy departed —
But a waking dream of life and light
Hath left me broken hearted:

And what is not a dream by day
To him whose eyes are cast
On things around him with a ray
Turn’d back upon the past?

That holy dream — that holy dream,
While all the world were chiding,
Hath cheer’d me as a lovely beam
A lonely spirit guiding: 

What tho’ that light, thro’ storm and night
So trembled from afar —
What could there be more purely bright
In Truth’s day-star? —