My Favorite Poem if ALL TIME

A Dream Within a Dream

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, 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?

I'm not sure as to why I love this poem so much but I do. I love the way Poe has with words and the dark and twisted side about him too. He is one of my favorite American Writers. He explores the dark workings of the human mind. Also, my favorite lines of this poem are "Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream?" I like how he lets you think about it.