1902 collected edition

A Dream Within a Dream (historical reading)

Read A Dream Within a Dream in a locally preserved historical transcription. Historical reading from James A. Harrison’s 1902 edition, volume VII. This is a later collected text, not the original printing or a manuscript scan. Paragraph and verse-line boundaries are retained; typography is simplified.

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Original publication: A Dream Within a Dream
Date: 1902 collected edition
Credits: Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher: Thomas Y. Crowell & Company
Published in: New York
Reference collection: Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore

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Historical reading from James A. Harrison’s 1902 edition, volume VII. This is a later collected text, not the original printing or a manuscript scan. Paragraph and verse-line boundaries are retained; typography is simplified.

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A Dream Within a Dream Historical reading from James A. Harrison’s 1902 edition, volume VII. This is a later collected text, not the original printing or a manuscript scan. Paragraph and verse-line boundaries are retained; typography is simplified. 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?

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Thomas Y. Crowell & Company. “A Dream Within a Dream (historical reading).” 1902 collected edition. A Dream Within a Dream. Crypt of Echoes evidence ID LED-2026-74b5cb43b0104402a1cfa2bbf32dfc31. https://cryptofechoes.com/evidence/LED-2026-74b5cb43b0104402a1cfa2bbf32dfc31. Accessed [date].

Catalogue citation: Edgar Allan Poe. A Dream Within a Dream. James A. Harrison, Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (1902), volume VII.

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