Poe's Works

Dream-Land By a route obscure and lonely,Haunted by ill angels only,Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT,On a black throne reigns upright,I have reached these lands but newlyFrom an ultimate dim Thule —From a wild weird clime, that lieth, sublime,Out of SPACE — out of TIME. Bottomless vales and boundless floods,And chasms, and caves, and Titan woods,With forms that no man can discoverFor the dews that drip all over;Mountains toppling evermoreInto seas without a shore;Seas that restlessly aspire,Surging, unto skies of fire;Lakes that endlessly outspreadTheir lone waters, lone and dead, ...

The Doomed City A PROPHECY. Lo! Death hath rear’d himself a throneIn a strange city, all alone,Far down within the dim west —And the good, and the bad, and the worst, and the best,Have gone to their eternal rest.  There shrines, and palaces, and towersAre — not like any thing of ours —O! no — O! no — ours never loomTo heaven with that ungodly gloom!Time-eaten towers that tremble not!Around, by lifting winds forgot,Resignedly beneath the skyThe melancholy waters lie. A heaven that God doth not contemnWith stars is like a diadem —We liken our ladies’ eyes to them —But ...

The Divine Right of Kings The only king by right divineIs Ellen King, and were she mineI’d strive for liberty no more,But hug the glorious chains I wore.  Her bosom is an ivory throne,Where tyrant virtue reigns alone;No subject vice dare interfere,To check the power that governs here.  O! would she deign to rule my fate,I’d worship Kings and kingly state,And hold this maxim all life long,The King — my King — can do no wrong. P. Many scholars attribute this poem to Edgar Allan ...

The Coliseum Lone ampitheatre! Grey Coliseum!Type of the antique Rome! Rich reliquaryOf lofty contemplation left to TimeBy buried centuries of pomp and power!At length, at length — after so many daysOf weary pilgrimage, and burning thirst,(Thirst for the springs of lore that in thee lie,)I kneel, an altered, and an humble man,Amid thy shadows, and so drink withinMy very soul thy grandeur, gloom, and glory.  Vastness! and Age! and Memories of Eld!Silence and Desolation! and dim Night!Gaunt vestibules! and phantom-peopled aisles!I feel ye now: I feel ye in your strength!O spells more sure ...