Contrariwise: Literary Tattoos » A Dream Within A Dream http://www.contrariwise.org Tattoos from books, poetry, music, and other sources. Fri, 03 Dec 2010 19:57:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 all that we see or seem http://www.contrariwise.org/2009/10/04/all-that-we-see-or-seem/ http://www.contrariwise.org/2009/10/04/all-that-we-see-or-seem/#comments Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:00:25 +0000 Jen http://www.contrariwise.org/?p=1113 This is Minty’s tattoo.

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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?
- Edgar Allan Poe, A Dream Within A Dream

All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

- Excerpt from A Dream Within A Dream by Edgar Allan Poe

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]]> http://www.contrariwise.org/2009/10/04/all-that-we-see-or-seem/feed/ 4 A dream within a dream http://www.contrariwise.org/2009/01/20/a-dream-within-a-dream/ http://www.contrariwise.org/2009/01/20/a-dream-within-a-dream/#comments Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:00:05 +0000 Jen http://www.contrariwise.org/?p=486 This tattoo was submitted by Caitlin:

This was my favorite poem growing up. After playing with tattoo ideas for a while when this one hit me, so I went with it, and it became my first tattoo.

edgar allen poe tattoo

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?

- Edgar Allan Poe, A Dream Within A Dream

PS
Yesterday would have been Poe’s 300th 200th birthday!  I can count.

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]]> http://www.contrariwise.org/2009/01/20/a-dream-within-a-dream/feed/ 3 Edgar Allan Poe http://www.contrariwise.org/2008/04/29/edgar-allen-poe/ http://www.contrariwise.org/2008/04/29/edgar-allen-poe/#comments Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:00:06 +0000 Jen http://www.contrariwise.org/?p=72

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?

- Edgar Allan Poe, A Dream Within A Dream

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