The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe: Poems and talesRedfield, 1858 |
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Page ix
... - window , sweet ! The wandering airs they faint On the dark , the silent stream— The champak odors fail Like sweet thoughts in a dream ; 1 * The nightingale's complaint , It dies upon her heart , THE POETIC PRINCIPLE . ix.
... - window , sweet ! The wandering airs they faint On the dark , the silent stream— The champak odors fail Like sweet thoughts in a dream ; 1 * The nightingale's complaint , It dies upon her heart , THE POETIC PRINCIPLE . ix.
Page x
... heart beats loud and fast : Oh ! press it close to thine again , Where it will break at last ! Very few , perhaps , are familiar with these lines - yet no less a poet than Shelley is their author . Their warm , yet delicate and ethereal ...
... heart beats loud and fast : Oh ! press it close to thine again , Where it will break at last ! Very few , perhaps , are familiar with these lines - yet no less a poet than Shelley is their author . Their warm , yet delicate and ethereal ...
Page xi
... heart gave way ! — But the sin forgiven by Christ in Heaven By man is cursed alway ! In this composition we find it difficult to recognise the Willis who has written so many mere 66 verses of society . " The lines are not only richly ...
... heart gave way ! — But the sin forgiven by Christ in Heaven By man is cursed alway ! In this composition we find it difficult to recognise the Willis who has written so many mere 66 verses of society . " The lines are not only richly ...
Page xiv
... heart . I make Beauty , therefore - using the word as inclusive of the sublime - I make Beauty the province of the poem , simply because it is an obvious rule of Art that effects should be made to spring as di- rectly as possible from ...
... heart . I make Beauty , therefore - using the word as inclusive of the sublime - I make Beauty the province of the poem , simply because it is an obvious rule of Art that effects should be made to spring as di- rectly as possible from ...
Page xv
... heart , As showers from the clouds of suminer , Or tears from the eyelids start ; Who through long days of labor , And nights devoid of ease , Still heard in his soul the music Of wonderful melodies . Such songs have power to quiet The ...
... heart , As showers from the clouds of suminer , Or tears from the eyelids start ; Who through long days of labor , And nights devoid of ease , Still heard in his soul the music Of wonderful melodies . Such songs have power to quiet The ...
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