by Poe · Cluster: Dreams · Moon
Abstract
A short love lyric of dream-visions: the beloved’s lips, melody and heart haunt the speaker’s sleep, set against the worthlessness of gold. Themes of love, dreams and longing.
Connections
Motifs: Love, Dreams, Eyes and Sight, Money and Gold Themes & Concepts: Romantic Love Forms & Genres: Lyric
Testo integrale / Full text
1
The bowers whereat, in dreams, I see
The wantonest singing birds
Are lips—and all thy melody
Of lip-begotten words—
2
Thine eyes, in Heaven of heart enshrin’d
Then desolately fall,
O! God! on my funereal mind
Like starlight on a pall—
3
Thy heart—thy heart!—I wake and sigh,
And sleep to dream till day
Of truth that gold can never buy—
Of the trifles that it may.
1829.