Complete Poems of Edgar Allan PoeHeritage Press, 1943 - 214 pages |
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Page xvi
... death - with death and beauty ( " the death of a beautiful woman is , unquestionably , the most poetical topic in the world " ) , with death and cheated desire , with death and cruelty , with death and the horror of dissolution . The ...
... death - with death and beauty ( " the death of a beautiful woman is , unquestionably , the most poetical topic in the world " ) , with death and cheated desire , with death and cruelty , with death and the horror of dissolution . The ...
Page 42
... Death ! from eye of God upon that star : Sweet was that error - sweeter still that death- Sweet was that error - even with us the breath Of Science dims the mirror of our joy— To them ' twere the Simoom , and would destroy- For what ...
... Death ! from eye of God upon that star : Sweet was that error - sweeter still that death- Sweet was that error - even with us the breath Of Science dims the mirror of our joy— To them ' twere the Simoom , and would destroy- For what ...
Page 184
... death . " To Helen " does not refer to Mrs. Stanard , the Helen of Poe's youth , but to Sarah Helen Whitman- " Helen- my Helen - the Helen of a thousand dreams , " as Poe wrote in one of his importunate letters . “ An Enigma " is a ...
... death . " To Helen " does not refer to Mrs. Stanard , the Helen of Poe's youth , but to Sarah Helen Whitman- " Helen- my Helen - the Helen of a thousand dreams , " as Poe wrote in one of his importunate letters . “ An Enigma " is a ...
Contents
The Editors Commentary | 2 |
Spirits of the Dead | 14 |
The Happiest Day the Happiest Hour | 21 |
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