Spiritual Song
Hark, echo! — Hark; echo!
’Tis the sound
Of archangels, in happiness wrapt
Edgar Allan Poe
The unfinished poem was not published during Poe’s lifetime. First published in 1911.
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Spiritual Song
Day: August 5, 2022
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Sonnet — To Zante
Sonnet — To Zante
Fair isle, that from the fairest of all flowers
Thy gentlest of all gentle names dost take,
How many memories of what radiant hours
At sight of thee and thine at once awake!
How many scenes of what departed bliss!
How many thoughts of what entombed hopes!
How many visions of a maiden that is
No more — no more upon thy verdant slopes!
No more! — alas, that magical sad sound
Transforming all! Thy charms shall please no more —
Thy memory no more! Accursed ground
Henceforth I hold thy flower-enamelled shore,
O, hyacinthine isle! O, purple Zante!
Isola d’oro! Fior di Levante!
Edgar Allan Poe
Originally Published in 1837
Image by W. Heath Robinson
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Sonnet — To Science
Sonnet — To Science
Science! meet daughter of old Time thou art
Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes!
Why prey’st thou thus upon the poet’s heart,
Vulture! whose wings are dull realities!
How should he love thee — or how deem thee wise
Who woulds’t not leave him, in his wandering,
To seek for treasure in the jewell’d skies
Albeit, he soar with an undaunted wing?
Hast thou not dragg’d Diana from her car,
And driv’n the Hamadryad from the wood
To seek a shelter in some happier star?
The gentle Naiad from her fountain-flood?
The elfin from the green grass? and from me
The summer dream beneath the shrubbery?
Edgar Allan Poe
Originally Published in 1829