The Raven & Other Audio Poems by Edgar Allan Poe, Readings by Walter Rufus Eagles

To Helen. . . [0:42]
Annabelle Lee . . . []
The Raven. . . [8:32]
The Bells. . . []
The City in the Sea. . . [2:16]
ref: Debussy's piano prelude, The Engulfed Cathedral.
A Dream within A Dream. . . [1:05]
ref: don Pedro Calderon de la Barca:
La vida es un suenyo, y los suenyos
suenyos son.

A Dream Within A Dream

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?

Edgar Allan Poe