{"id":542,"date":"2010-06-12T21:31:59","date_gmt":"2010-06-12T21:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=542"},"modified":"2010-06-12T21:31:59","modified_gmt":"2010-06-12T21:31:59","slug":"a-dream-within-a-dream-by-edgar-allan-poe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/a-dream-within-a-dream-by-edgar-allan-poe\/","title":{"rendered":"A Dream Within A Dream by Edgar Allan Poe"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_543\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-543\" style=\"width: 251px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/poe.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-543 lazyload\" title=\"poe\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/poe-251x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"251\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/poe-251x300.png 251w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/poe.png 503w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 251px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 251\/300;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-543\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">A Dream Within A Dream<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>by Edgar Allan Poe <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Take this kiss upon the brow!<br \/>\nAnd, in parting from you now,<br \/>\nThus much let me avow-<br \/>\nYou are not wrong, who deem<br \/>\nThat my days have been a dream;<br \/>\nYet if hope has flown away<br \/>\nIn a night, or in a day,<br \/>\nIn a vision, or in none,<br \/>\nIs it therefore the less gone?<br \/>\nAll that we see or seem<br \/>\nIs but a dream within a dream.<\/p>\n<p>I stand amid the roar<br \/>\nOf a surf-tormented shore,<br \/>\nAnd I hold within my hand<br \/>\nGrains of the golden sand-<br \/>\nHow few! yet how they creep<br \/>\nThrough my fingers to the deep,<br \/>\nWhile I weep- while I weep!<br \/>\nO God! can I not grasp<br \/>\nThem with a tighter clasp?<br \/>\nO God! can I not save<br \/>\nOne from the pitiless wave?<br \/>\nIs all that we see or seem<br \/>\nBut a dream within a dream?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Dream Within A Dream by Edgar Allan Poe 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,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1800s","category-edgar-allen"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}