Comparison Poems

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?

A Plane within a Plane by this something or other writer

Fasten your belts and pop your ears!

It's time to release travel hardened fears,

They kick in with takeoff--

Reality gone, a blur from speed

Till I am too high for weed

To fear my death from the fall;

My emotions vibrate, they call

My heart with tremors I feel,

This new heat within me is revealed,

I have to shake my personal bane

To cool off within the plane.

I see a new try

Clouds blanket my clean sky

A canvas of uncolored color,

A site quite duller--

No builds and no scrapes,

Only vast beautiful blue drapes,

Soothe the vigilant emotion that rapes!

I lose my balmy touch,

My cheeks unclench from their clutch!

Much as the sky's complexion,

Fear becomes a reflection,

I see myself, just me, plain

I'm flying within a plane.