Lyric Poem · Dreams & Sleep
A Dream
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?
This poem is in the public domain.
“A Dream” by Edgar Allan Poe — quilloak.com/poems/a-dream-poe
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