Poems of Edgar Allan Poe: With MemoirThomas Y. Crowell & Company, 1882 - 196 pages This book is a collection of Poe's most famous poems as well as essays on poetry. A memoir is included in introduction. Poems include ''The Raven, '' ''A Dream Within a Dream, '' ''Al Aaraaf'' and ''Lenore.'' |
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... soul . The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement . But all excitements are , through a psychal necessity , transient . That degree of excitement which would entitle a poem to be so called at all can not be ...
... soul . The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement . But all excitements are , through a psychal necessity , transient . That degree of excitement which would entitle a poem to be so called at all can not be ...
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... souls , we should immediately there discover that under the sun there neither exists nor can exist any work more thoroughly dignified , more supremely noble , than this very poem ; this poem per se ; this poem which is a poem and ...
... souls , we should immediately there discover that under the sun there neither exists nor can exist any work more thoroughly dignified , more supremely noble , than this very poem ; this poem per se ; this poem which is a poem and ...
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... , we attain to but brief and indeterminate glimpses . The struggle to apprehend the supernal loveliness , this struggle , on the part of souls fittingly consti- tuted , has given to the world all that which 28 THE POETIC PRINCIPLE .
... , we attain to but brief and indeterminate glimpses . The struggle to apprehend the supernal loveliness , this struggle , on the part of souls fittingly consti- tuted , has given to the world all that which 28 THE POETIC PRINCIPLE .
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... soul most nearly attains the great end for which , when inspired by the poetic sentiment , it struggles , -the creation of supernal beauty . It may be , in- deed , that here this sublime end is , now and then , attained , in fact . We ...
... soul most nearly attains the great end for which , when inspired by the poetic sentiment , it struggles , -the creation of supernal beauty . It may be , in- deed , that here this sublime end is , now and then , attained , in fact . We ...
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... soul which we recognize as the poetic sentiment , and which is so easily distinguished from Truth , which is the satisfaction of the Reason , or from Passion , which is the excitement of the heart . I make Beauty , therefore , using the ...
... soul which we recognize as the poetic sentiment , and which is so easily distinguished from Truth , which is the satisfaction of the Reason , or from Passion , which is the excitement of the heart . I make Beauty , therefore , using the ...
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Page 186 - Perched, and sat, and nothing more. Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, "Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore — Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!
Page 31 - Come, read to me some poem, Some simple and heartfelt lay, That shall soothe this restless feeling, And banish the thoughts of day. Not from the grand old masters, Not from the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of Time. For, like strains of martial music, Their mighty thoughts suggest Life's endless toil and endeavor; And to-night I long for rest. Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the...
Page 51 - Once upon a midnight dreary, While I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious Volume of forgotten lore — While I nodded, nearly napping, Suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, Rapping at my chamber door ; "Tis some visitor," I muttered, ' ' Tapping at my chamber door — Only this and nothing more.
Page 64 - And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me. I was a child and she was a child. In this kingdom by the sea, But we loved with a love that was more than love, I and my Annabel Lee; With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me.
Page 41 - Look at her garments Clinging like cerements; Whilst the wave constantly Drips from her clothing; Take her up instantly, Loving, not loathing. Touch her not scornfully; Think of her mournfully, Gently and humanly; Not of the stains of her, All that remains of her Now is pure womanly.
Page 87 - Up many and many a marvellous shrine Whose wreathed friezes intertwine The viol, the violet, and the vine. Resignedly beneath the sky The melancholy waters lie. So blend the turrets and shadows there That all seem pendulous in air, While from a proud tower in the town Death looks gigantically down.
Page 81 - And all with pearl and ruby glowing Was the fair palace door, Through which came flowing, flowing, flowing, And sparkling evermore, A troop of Echoes, whose sweet duty Was but to sing, In voices of surpassing beauty, The wit and wisdom of their king.
Page 100 - The trembling living wire Of those unusual strings. But the skies that angel trod, Where deep thoughts are a duty, Where Love's a grown-up God, Where the Houri glances are Imbued with all the beauty Which we worship in a star.
Page 53 - Lenore": Merely this and nothing more. Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning, Soon again I heard a tapping something louder than before. "Surely," said I, "surely that is something at my window lattice; Let me see, then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore: Let my heart be still a moment, and this mystery explore: Tis the wind and nothing more.
Page 42 - Who was her father? Who was her mother? Had she a sister? Had she a brother? Or was there a dearer one Still, and a nearer one Yet, than all other?