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A Dream

In visions of the dark night
I have dreamed of joy departed—
But a waking dream of life and light
Hath left me broken-hearted.

Ah! what is not a dream by day
To him whose eyes are cast
On things around him with a ray
Turned back upon the past?

That holy dream—that holy dream,
While all the world were chiding,
Hath cheered me as a lovely beam
A lonely spirit guiding—

What though that light, thro' storm and night,
So trembled from afar—
What could there be more purely bright
In Truth's day-star?—

• chiding – scolding

1. Notes
2. Reading Pointers for Sharper Insights
3. The Fall of the House of Usher
4. The Murders in the Rue Morgue
5. Never Bet the Devil Your Head
6. The Masque of the Red Death
7. The Pit and the Pendulum
8. The Tell-Tale Heart
9. The Gold-Bug
10. The Black Cat
11. A Tale of the Ragged Mountains
12. The Premature Burial
13. The Purloined Letter
14. The Cask of Amontillado
15. Hop-Frog; or The Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs
16. Dreams
17. A Dream
18. To –
19. Alone
20. To Helen
21. Lenore
22. The Coliseum
23. To One In Paradise
24. The Haunted Palace
25. The Conqueror Worm
26. The Raven
27. Sonnet—To Science
28. Annabel Lee
29. Eldorado
30. The Bells
31. For Annie
32. To My Mother
33. To —
34. A Dream Within A Dream
35. An Enigma
36. Copyright