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Dreams | Edgar Allan Poe Poem · Ririro.com - Poetry

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  Speaker 1: Oh, that my young life were a lasting dream, my
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  Speaker 1: spirit not awakening till the beam of an eternity should
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  Speaker 1: bring the morrow. Yes, though that long dream were of
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  Speaker 1: hopeless sorrow, tware better than the dull reality of waking
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  Speaker 1: life to him whose heart shall be and hath been
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  Speaker 1: ever on the chilly earth a chaos of deep passion
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  Speaker 1: from his birth. But should it be that dream eternally,
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  Speaker 1: continuing as dreams have been to me in my young boyhood?
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  Speaker 1: Should it thus be given? Twere folly still to hope
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  Speaker 1: for higher heaven? For I have reveled when the sun
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  Speaker 1: was bright in the summer sky, in dreamy fields of light,
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  Speaker 1: and left unheedingly my very heart in climes of mine imagining,
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  Speaker 1: apart from mine own home, with beings that have been
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  Speaker 1: of mine own thought. What more could I have seen
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  Speaker 1: twas once, and only once, and the wild hour, from
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  Speaker 1: my remembrance shall not pass. Some power or spell had
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  Speaker 1: bound me twas the chilly wind came o'er me in
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  Speaker 1: the night and left behind its image on my spirit,
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  Speaker 1: or the moon shone on my slumbers in her lofty
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  Speaker 1: noon too coldly, or the stars, howe'er it was that
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  Speaker 1: dream was as the night wind, let it pass. I
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  Speaker 1: have been happy, though, but in a dream I have
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  Speaker 1: been happy. And I love the theme dreams, in their
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  Speaker 1: vivid coloring of life, as in that fleeting, shadowy, misty
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  Speaker 1: strife of semblance with reality, which brings to the delirious
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  Speaker 1: eye more lovely things of paradise and love and all
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  Speaker 1: our own than young Hope, in its sunniest hour hath
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  Speaker 1: known