dream within a dream

dream within a dream

A Poem by Parashar

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

© 2012 Parashar


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I think it this was beautiful with true emotion. You are a really talented writer.

Posted 12 Years Ago


Beautiful, sad, but very profound. I adore it, but have one question in reference to the following passage:

"All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream."

Why do you choose to have the statement at the end of the first stanza, and the question at the end of the second, but with no question mark? I was just wondering, I do love it.

Posted 12 Years Ago



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Parashar
Parashar

london, central, United Kingdom



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A Poem by Parashar