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Poe's Works

Silence — A Sonnet

August 4, 2022

Silence A Sonnet There are some qualities — some incorporate thingsThat have a double life — life aptly made,The type of that twin entity which springsFrom matter and light, evinced in solid and shade.There is a two-fold Silence — sea and shore —Body and soul. One dwells in lonely places,Newly with grass o’ergrown. Some solemn graces —Some human memories and tearful lore,Render him terrorless — his name's “No More.”He is the corporate Silence — dread him not!No power hath he of evil in himself;But should some urgent fate — untimely lot!Bring thee to meet ...

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Sonnet

August 4, 2022

Sonnet “Seldom we find,” says Solomon Don Dunce,“Half an idea in the profoundest sonnet.Through all the flimsy things we see at onceAs easily as through a Naples bonnet —Trash of all trash! — how can a lady don it?Yet heavier far than your Petrarchan stuff —Owl-downy nonsense that the faintest puffTwirls into trunk-paper the while you con it.”And, veritably, Sol is right enough.The general Petrarchanities are arrantBubbles — ephemeral and so transparent —But this is, now, — you may depend upon it —Stable, opaque, immortal — all by dintOf the dear names that lie ...

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Song of Triumph

August 2, 2022

Song of Triumph Who is king but Epiphanes?Say do you know?Who is God but Epiphanes?Say do you know?There is none but EpiphanesNo — there is none:So tear down the templesAnd put out the sun! Edgar Allan Poe Originally Published in Poe’s story “Epimanes” in 1833 ...

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Serenade

August 2, 2022

Serenade So sweet the hour — so calm the time,I feel it more than half a crimeWhen Nature sleeps and stars are mute,To mar the silence ev’n with lute.At rest on ocean's brilliant diesAn image of Elysium lies:Seven Pleiades entranced in Heaven,Form in the deep another seven:Endymion nodding from aboveSees in the sea a second love:Within the valleys dim and brown,And on the spectral mountain's crownThe wearied light is lying down:The earth, and stars, and sea, and skyAre redolent of sleep, as IAm redolent of thee and thineEnthralling love, my Adeline.But list, O list! — so soft and lowThy ...

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