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?
I think that the poem is talking about how much he misses a close friend or his wife. It sounds like he is going to cry. I notice that the poem asks many questions and uses many question marks. It shows extreme emotion by the use of words and punctuation. It is like many couplet poems clustered together because the rhyme scheme is AABBCC...etc.
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