Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
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In visions of the dark night
Take this kiss upon the brow!
Take this kiss upon the brow!
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For her this rhyme is penned, whose luminous eyes,
Part I
O! nothing earthly save the ray
High on a mountain of enamell'd head,
From childhood’s hour I have not been
Elizabeth it is in vain you say
"Seldom we find," says Solomon Don Dunce,
It was many and many a year ago,
The ring is on my hand,
By a route obscure and lonely,
Oh! that my young life were a lasting dream!
Gaily bedight,
Elizabeth, it surely is most fit
I'll tell you a plan for gaining wealth,
I dwelt alone
It is with humility really unassumed, it is with a sentiment even of awe, that I pen the opening sentence of this work: for of all conceivable subjects I approach the reader with the most solemn, the most comprehensive, the most difficult, the most a
’Twas noontide of summer,
Dim vales- and shadowy floods,
Thank Heaven! the crisis,
At morn, at noon, at twilight dim,
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A dark unfathomed tide
When from your gems of thought I turn
I.
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In Heaven a spirit doth dwell
Ah, broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever!
It should not be doubted that at least one-third of the affection with which we regard the elder poets of Great Britain should be attributed to what is, in itself, a thing apart from poetry we mean to the simple love of the antique and that, again, a
Romance, who loves to nod and sing,
Sancta Maria! turn thine eyes,
ROME.--A Hall in a Palace. ALESSANDRA and CASTIGLIONE
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So sweet the hour, so calm the time,
There are some qualities some incorporate things,
I saw thee on thy bridal day
There are some qualities, some incorporate things,
Fair isle, that from the fairest of all flowers,
Science! true daughter of Old Time thou art!
Thy soul shall find itself alone
How often we forget all time, when lone
Kind solace in a dying hour!
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The bells! ah, the bells!
Lo! Death has reared himself a throne
Type of the antique Rome! Rich reliquary
Lo! 'tis a gala night
I will bring fire to thee.
The only king by right divine
'Tis said that when
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In the greenest of our valleys
In spring of youth it was my lot
In youth’s spring, it was my lot
In speaking of the Poetic Principle, I have no design to be either thorough or profound. While discussing, very much at random, the essentiality of what we call Poetry, my principal purpose will be to cite for consideration, some few of those minor E
'Oinos.'
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
At midnight, in the month of June,
Once it smiled a silent dell
In these rapid, restless shadows,
I heed not that my earthly lot
Not long ago, the writer of these lines,
The bowers whereat, in dreams, I see
Beloved! amid the earnest woes
Thou wouldst be loved? then let thy heart
Thou wouldst be loved? then let thy heart
Helen, thy beauty is to me
Helen, thy beauty is to me
Helen, thy beauty is to me
I saw thee once--once only--years ago:
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O! I care not that my earthly lot
Of all who hail thy presence as the morning,
Not long ago, the writer of these lines,
Because I feel that, in the Heavens above,
Seraph! thy memory is to me
Thou wast that all to me, love,
In spring of youth it was my lot
Fair river! in thy bright, clear flow
Fair isle, that from the fairest of all flowers,
The bowers whereat, in dreams, I see
The skies they were ashen and sober;
Thy soul shall find itself alone