{"id":288,"date":"2008-12-12T21:00:35","date_gmt":"2008-12-12T21:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=288"},"modified":"2008-12-12T21:00:35","modified_gmt":"2008-12-12T21:00:35","slug":"poem-a-dream-within-a-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/poem-a-dream-within-a-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem:  A Dream within a Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s poem is <strong>&#8220;A Dream Within a Dream&#8221; <\/strong>by American writer and poet, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849):<\/p>\n<blockquote><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.<br \/>\nI stand amid the roar<br \/>\nOf a surf-tormented shore,<br \/>\nAnd I hold within my hand<br \/>\nGrains of the golden sand &#8211;<br \/>\nHow few! yet how they creep<br \/>\nThrough my fingers to the deep,<br \/>\nWhile I weep &#8211; 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><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s poem is &#8220;A Dream Within a Dream&#8221; by American writer and poet, Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849): 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","p1","y2008","m12","d12","h21"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}