Edgar Allan Poe (1809 – 1849) was an American writer, editor, and literary critic known for his dark tales and horror stories. Poe is one of the most famous writers from the American Romantic era and is considered to be the inventor of the detective fiction genre.
In his poem “A Dream Within a Dream” the narrator deals with loss and despair and questions whether everything is real or just a dream. Read an analysis of this poem at Poemanalysis.
The album art is a vintage botanical illustration of pansies by the French artist Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759 – 1840). In the Victorian flower language pansies means “thoughts”.
Instruments used in this song: female vocals, piano, electric piano and cello.
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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?
