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A Dream Within a Dream

BY EDGAR ALLAN POE

Take this kiss upon the brow!

And, in parting from you now,

Thus much let me avow —

You are not wrong, who deem

That my days have been a dream;

Yet if hope has flown away

In a night, or in a day,

In a vision, or in none,

Is it therefore the less gone? 

All that we see or seem

Is but a dream within a dream.


I stand amid the roar

Of a surf-tormented shore,

And I hold within my hand

Grains of the golden sand —

How few! yet how they creep

Through my fingers to the deep,

While I weep — while I weep!

O God! Can I not grasp

Them with a tighter clasp?

O God! can I not save

One from the pitiless wave?

Is all that we see or seem

But a dream within a dream?

Omg u guys I'm so sad :( life sucks so much :( let me complain on discord :( what even is life?

lolol

i never really managed to enjoy Poe

chill out

or ill have to manhandle u

😳

moon

Yes momy

<:lmao:619749634230845442>

<:really:649391280924655626>

poe has some good poems

@pierce make that but with the slightly thick byz

?b @pierce

the *insert dark something here* by edgar allen poe

well, theres also

I dont understand negative emotions when theres fries

the fact that whatever book i read as a kid by poe was a shitty editorial house and a shitty translation

maybe if i read it now <:GWchadThink:366999782348292108>

omg

now thats ART

the power of post modern production.

i think thats wolfy's type >_>

lmfaooo

dead

mandy is savage.

and illegal downloads of photoshop

i love mandy

hah what

@Crippled Cupid i love poe. mask of the red death is my favorite, then Cask of amontillado. Def read mask of the red death though.

I'm gona buy a book of edgar allen poes complete works and read it mysteriously in a graveyard

unexpected

N yall think I dont know how to have fun