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A Dream Within A Dream
1849 | Edgar Allan Poe

Posted on 01/11/2025 8:55:29 PM PST by Jeff Chandler

From: A Dream Within a Dream
By Edgar Allan Poe

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?


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Poetry
KEYWORDS: edgarallanpoe; life

1 posted on 01/11/2025 8:55:29 PM PST by Jeff Chandler
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To: Jeff Chandler

I’m sorry, but when I see that phrase, I’m thinking “A dweam within a dweam”.

‘The Princess Bride’


2 posted on 01/11/2025 8:58:18 PM PST by hoagy62 (Don't let evil win again!)
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To: Jeff Chandler

These Romantics...


3 posted on 01/11/2025 9:00:09 PM PST by Romulus ( )
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To: Jeff Chandler

Powerful. I think it’s about how the years go, and there’s nothing you can do about it.


4 posted on 01/11/2025 9:04:24 PM PST by BobL
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To: hoagy62

A bwessed awangement.


5 posted on 01/11/2025 9:16:49 PM PST by showme_the_Glory (No more rhyming, and I mean it.........)
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