Poetry time.... Get inspired!

A Dream Within A Dream by Edgar Allan Poe

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?

My Papa's Waltz by Theodore Roethke

The whiskey on your breath 

Could make a small boy dizzy; 

But I hung on like death: 

Such waltzing was not easy. 

We romped until the pans 

Slid from the kitchen shelf; 

My mother's countenance 

Could not unfrown itself. 

The hand that held my wrist 

Was battered on one knuckle; 

At every step you missed 

My right ear scraped a buckle. 

You beat time on my head 

With a palm caked hard by dirt, 

Then waltzed me off to bed 

Still clinging to your shirt.