Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM, OR IMITATION, by EDGAR ALLAN POE


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First Line: A dark unfathom'd tide
Last Line: With a thought I then did cherish.
Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares


A dark unfathom'd tide
Of interminable pride --
A mystery, and a dream,
Should my early life seem;
I say that dream was fraught
With a wild, and waking thought
Of beings that have been,
Which my spirit hath not seen.
Had I let them pass me by,
With a dreaming eye!
Let none of earth inherit
That vision of my spirit;
Those thoughts I would controul,
As a spell upon his soul:
For that bright hope at last
And that light time have past,
And my worldly rest hath gone
With a sigh as it pass'd on:
I care not tho' it perish
With a thought I then did cherish.





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