A Dream: by Edgar Allan Poe
A Dream
In visions of the dark night
I have dreamed of joy departed;
But a waking dream of life and light
Hath left me broken-hearted.
Ah! what is not a dream by day
To him whose eyes are cast
On things around him, with a ray
Turned back upon the past?
That holy dream, that holy dream,
While all the world were chiding,
Hath cheered me as a lovely beam
A lonely spirit guiding.
What though the light, thro’ storm and night,
So trembled from afar--
What could there be more purely bright
In Truth’s day-star?
By: Edgar Allan Poe
Defiantly by far my favorite poem by Edgar Allan Poe as his writings have inspired my life. If I had never read Poe I would be a completely different person and well it inspired me enough to get him tattooed. I just thought everyone should know why I’m so inspired by him and why I got him tattooed.