You are heredream / A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM
A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM
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?
Edgar Alan Poe








De hecho es el único poema que me sé de memoria en inglés.
Evoca tantas imágenes la historia y es tan profunda y oscura su sonoridad, que me acompaña por días, semanas, cuando lo recuerdo.
Hace unos años pude ver la habitación donde Poe estudiaba en la Universidad de Virginia (antes de que lo expulsaran por bebedor y juegos de azar creo...)
Saludos...
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con paciencia y calma,
sube un burro a una palma.
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