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The Domain Of Arnheim

The Domain Of Arnheim The garden like a lady fair was cut,That lay as if she slumbered in delight,And to the open skies her eyes did shut.The azure fields of...

Landor’s Cottage

Landor’s Cottage A Pendant to ‘The Domain Of Arnheim.’ During a pedestrian tour last summer, through one or two of the river counties of New York, I found myself, as...

King Pest

King Pest The First – A Tale Containing An Allegory The Gods do bear and well allow in kingsThe things which they abhor in rascal routes. –Buckhurst’s Tragedy of Ferrex...

The Island Of The Fay

The Island Of The Fay Science, true 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...

A Dream

Hear “A Dream” Read Aloud. A Dream   In visions of the dark nightI have dream’d of joy departed —But a waking dream of life and lightHath left me broken...

Poe Museum Receives Dozens of Artifacts in Honor of 100 Year Anniversary

The Poe Museum has received a transformative gift of nearly sixty treasured Edgar Allan Poe artifacts in honor of the museum’s 100 year anniversary. This collection of items, including personal...

The Imp of the Perverse

The Imp Of The Perverse In the consideration of the faculties and impulses — of the prima mobilia of the human soul, the phrenologists have failed to make room for a propensity which...

Hop-Frog

Hop-Frog I never knew any one so keenly alive to a joke as the king was. He seemed to live only for joking. To tell a good story of the joke kind...

The Unparalleled Adventure Of One Hans Pfaall

The Unparalleled Adventure OF One Hans Pfaall With a heart of furious fancies, Whereof I am commander, With a burning spear and a horse of air, To the wilderness I wander...

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