Friday, February 3, 2012

Favorite Friday Poem

"A Dream" by Edgar Allan Poe

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?

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