"Dreams"

Oh! that my young life were a lasting dream!
My spirit not awakening, till the beam
Of an Eternity should bring the morrow.
Yes! tho' that long dream were of hopeless sorrow,
'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
In my young boyhood- should it thus be given,
'Twere folly still to hope for higher Heaven.
For I have revell'd, when the sun was bright
I' the summer sky, in dreams of living light
And loveliness,- have left my very heart
In climes of my imagining, apart
From mine own home, with beings that have been
Of mine own thought- what more could I have seen?
'Twas once- and only once- and the wild hour
From my remembrance shall not pass- some power
Or spell had bound me- 'twas the chilly wind
Came o'er me in the night, and left behind
Its image on my spirit- or the moon
Shone on my slumbers in her lofty noon
Too coldly- or the stars- howe'er it was
That dream was as that night-wind- let it pass.

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.

Edgar Allan Poe

"Um sonho, num sonho"

Este beijo em tua fronte deponho!
Vou partir. E bem pode, quem parte,
francamente aqui vir confessar-te
que bastante razão tinhas, quando
comparaste meus dias a um sonho.
Se a esperança se vai, esvoaçando,
que me importa se é noite ou se é dia...
ente real ou visão fugidia?
De maneira qualquer fugiria.
O que vejo, o que sou e suponho
não é mais do que um sonho num sonho.

Fico em meio ao clamor, que se alteia
de uma praia, que a vaga tortura.
Minha mão grãos de areia segura
com bem força, que é de ouro essa areia.
São tão poucos! Mas, fogem-me, pelos
dedos, para a profunda água escura.
Os meus olhos se inundam de pranto.
Oh! meu Deus! E não posso retê-los,
se os aperto na mão, tanto e tanto?
Ah! meu Deus! E não posso salvar
um ao menos da fúria do mar?
O que vejo, o que sou e suponho
será apenas um sonho num sonho?


Edgar Allan Poe

'A DREAM'

In visions of the dark night
I have dreamed of joy departed
But a waking dream of life and light
Hath left me broken-hearted.
Ah! what is not a dream by day
To him whose eyes are cast
On things around him with a ray
Turned back upon the past?

That holy dream - that holy dream,
While all the world were chiding,
Hath cheered me as a lovely beam
A lonely spirit guiding.

What though that light, thro' storm and night,
So trembled from afar
What could there be more purely bright
In Truth's day-star?

Edgar Allan Poe