Dream First Edition

Explore the juxtaposition of darkness and hope in this compelling anthology as international poets craft evocative and uplifting verse.

Sad poetry with happy outcomes from

Disha Battachararyya
Maggie D. Brace
Vanessa Caraveo
Dr. Patience Chitangwa
Dawn DeBraal
Gabriela Docan
John Drudge
D.J. Elton
Tom Foard
Nusrat M. Haider
Mark Andrew Heathcote
Avery Hunter
Dr. Nithya Mariam John
Phil Knight
Des Mannay
Kelly Matsuura
Aminath Neena
Kurt Newton
Renata Pavrey
Sehloho Piet Rampai
Darren B. Rankins
Lisa Reynolds
McKenzie Richardson
Magnolia Silcox
Swati Singh
Imogen L. Smiley
Lynn White

 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?

A Dream within a Dream (1849)
Edgar Allan Poe