'Twere better than the cold reality
Of waking life, to him whose heart must be,
And hath been still, upon the lovely earth,
A chaos of deep passion, from his birth.
But should it be- that dream eternally,
Continuing- as dreams have been to me.


I have been happy, tho' in a dream.
I have been happy- and I love the theme:
Dreams! in their vivid coloring of life, As in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strife
Of semblance with reality, which brings
To the delirious eye, more lovely things
Of Paradise and Love- and all our own!
Than young Hope in his sunniest hour hath known.


~ Excerpts from Dreams by Edgar Allan Poe