The Complete Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Including Essays on Poetry
The Complete Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Including Essays on Poetry
No American writer has more perfectly united beauty and terror. Poe's poetry pulses with a grief that feels eternal, a longing for the lost that transforms into something almost sacred. This complete collection gathers the work of a man who wrote while his young wife died of tuberculosis in the next room, who buried his mother, his mother-in-law, and his wife, and who poured all that anguish into verses of staggering musicality. Here you will find 'The Raven,' with its maddening refrain of 'nevermore,' but also the ethereal 'Annabel Lee,' the doomed grandeur of 'Ulalume,' and the controlled madness of 'The City in the Sea.' Also included are Poe's essays on poetry, including 'The Poetic Principle,' where he articulates his belief that a poem should be written for its own sake, for the pure beauty it creates. This is not a comfortable read. It is a descent into the dark architecture of the soul, where angels weep and dead voices answer. For those who have known loss, or feared mortality, or simply ached for something beautiful and unattainable, Poe remains the poet who says what we cannot say ourselves.
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“Twas noontide of summer,And mid-time of night;And stars, in their orbits,Shone pale, thro' the lightOf the brighter, cold moon,'Mid planets her slaves,Herself in the Heavens,Her beam on the waves.I gazed awhileOn her cold smile;Too cold–too cold for me-There pass'd, as a shroud,A fleecy cloud,And I turned away to thee,Proud Evening Star,In thy glory afar,And dearer thy beam shall be;For joy to my heartIs the proud partThou bearest in Heaven at night,And more I admireThy distant fire,Than that colder, lowly light.””
— Edgar Allan Poe
“We grew in age - and love - togetherRoaming the forest, and the wild;My breast her shield in wintry weather -And, when the friendly sunshine smil'd,And she would mark the opening skies,I saw no Heaven - but in her eyes.””
— Edgar Allan Poe
“Ah, not in knowledge is happiness, but in the acquisition of knowledge! In forever knowing, we are forever blessed; but to know all, were the curse of a fiend.””
— Edgar Allan Poe
“I saw no heaven”
— Edgar Allan Poe
“And boyhood is a summer sun / Whose waning is the dreariest one-- / For all we live to know is known, / And all we seek to keep hath flown--””
— Edgar Allan Poe
“O craving heart, for the lost flowers/ And sunshine of my summer hours!/ The undying voice of that dead time,/ With its interminable chime,/ Rings in the spirit of a spell, / Upon thy emptiness--a knell. / I have not always been as now:””
— Edgar Allan Poe
“Thou wouldst be loved?”
— Edgar Allan Poe
“At midnight, in the month of June, I stand beneath the mystic moon. An opiate vapor, dewy, dim, Exhales from out her golden rim, And, softly dripping, drop by drop, Upon the quiet mountain top,””
— Edgar Allan Poe
“Alas! for that accursed timeThey bore thee o'er the billow,From love to titled age and crime,And an unholy pillow!From me, and from our misty clime,Where weeps the silver willow!””
— Edgar Allan Poe
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