Poe and the Artists and Writers of New England
University of Massachusetts Amherst
October 29-31, 2009
www.umass.edu/poeumass

Friday, October 30 from5pm-7pm  Herter Art Gallery 
Poe art exhibition featuring works by Barry Moser, Jack Coughlin, Christin Couture,
and the complete original artwork for a 1948 Spirit story by Will Eisner
(his adaptation of “The Fall of the House of Usher”)

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AFTER POE: Works of Mystery & Imagination
October 1 - 28,  2009
Art Gallery, University of Maine, Farmington

POE /AFTER POE  A University Forum Series
http://poeafterpoe.wordpress.com/

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A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM

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?

                  Edgar Allan Poe