by Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)
Take this kiss upon the brow!
Language: English
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?
M. Van Höveln-Carpé sets stanza 2
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Text Authorship:
- by Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), "A dream within a dream" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Benjamin C. S. Boyle , "A dream within a dream", op. 4 no. 8, published 2002, first performed 2003 [ baritone and piano ], from Lenoriana, no. 8 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Henry P. Cross (b. 1895), "A dream within a dream", published 1936 [ SSAATTBB chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Emil Debusman , "A dream within a dream", from Three Songs [sung text not yet checked]
- by Daron Aric Hagen (b. 1961), "A dream within a dream", from Echo's songs, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Huub de Lange (b. 1955), "A dream within a dream", published 2007 [ satb chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Charles Martin Tornov Loeffler (1861 - 1935), "A dream within a dream", op. 15 (Four Poems) no. 2, published 1906 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Neil McKay (b. 1924), "A dream within a dream", published 1976 [ SATB chorus a cappella ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Julian Mount, né William Hutchinson , "A dream within a dream", published 1878 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Henry Théodore Pontet (1833 - 1902), "A dream within a dream", published 1890 [ voice and piano ], London, John Blockley [sung text not yet checked]
- by Rhian Samuel (b. 1944), 1989, published 2003, first performed 1990 [ voice and guitar ], from Three Songs, no. 1, Andresier Editions (Bardic Edition) [sung text not yet checked]
- by Oscar George Theodore Sonneck (1873 - 1928), "A dream within a dream", op. 16 (Four Poems by Edgar Allan Poe) no. 4, published 1917 [ baritone, piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by George William Torrance, Rev. (1835 - 1907), "A dream within a dream", published 1904 [ SATB chorus ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Myra Kinney Van Höveln-Carpé , "Grains of the golden sand", op. 54a, published 1922, stanza 2 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
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This text was added to the website: 2007-09-27
Line count: 24
Word count: 141