<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373643" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Dreams</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh! that my young life were a lasting dream!<br> My spirit not awakening, till the beam<br> Of an Eternity should bring the morrow.<br> Yes! tho' that long dream were of hopeless sorrow,<br> 'Twere better than the cold reality<br> Of waking life, to him whose heart must be,<br> And hath been still, upon the lovely earth,<br> A chaos of deep passion, from his birth.<br> But should it be- that dream eternally<br> Continuing- as dreams have been to me<br> In my young boyhood- should it thus be given,<br> 'Twere folly still to hope for higher Heaven.<br> For I have revell'd, when the sun was bright<br> I' the summer sky, in dreams of living light<br> And loveliness,- have left my very heart<br> In climes of my imagining, apart<br> From mine own home, with beings that have been<br> Of mine own thought- what more could I have seen?<br> 'Twas once- and only once- and the wild hour<br> From my remembrance shall not pass- some power<br> Or spell had bound me- 'twas the chilly wind<br> Came o'er me in the night, and left behind<br> Its image on my spirit- or the moon<br> Shone on my slumbers in her lofty noon<br> Too coldly- or the stars- howe'er it was<br> That dream was as that night-wind- let it pass.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> I have been happy, tho' in a dream.<br> I have been happy- and I love the theme:<br> Dreams! in their vivid coloring of life,<br> As in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strife<br> Of semblance with reality, which brings<br> To the delirious eye, more lovely things<br> Of Paradise and Love- and all our own!<br> Than young Hope in his sunniest hour hath known.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edgar+Allan+Poe">Edgar Allan Poe</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373643" data-title="Dreams de Edgar Allan Poe" data-description="Oh! that my young life were a lasting dream! My spirit not awakening, till the beam Of an Eternity should bring the morrow. Yes! tho' that long dream were of hopeless sorrow, 'Twere better than the cold reality Of waking life, to him whose he..."></div> </div> </div>

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