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The Eve Of Waterloo
Darkness
Prometheus
She walks in Beauty
And Thou art Dead, as Young and Fair


The Glove
Phantasy - To Laura
Rapture - To Laura
The Secret


Of the Lady Pietra degli Scrovigni
My lady carries love within her eyes
Death, always cruel
Of Beauty and Duty


To Luna
To the Distant One
The Fisherman
The Castle on the Mountain


The Raven
The Lake
Alone
A Dream Within a Dream


On His Blindness
On His Deceased Wife
To the Lady Margaret Ley
Light


Edgar Allan Poe - A Dream Within a Dream



Make 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?