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 […]
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. […]
The Gold Bug
The following story includes an offensive depiction of a character named Jupiter. Poe’s characterization of the formerly enslaved man reflects racist minstrel stereotypes. The Gold-Bug What ho! what ho! this […]
Epimanes
Epimanes Chacun a ses vertus. Crebillon’s Xerxes Antiochus Epiphanes is very generally looked upon as the Gog of the prophet Ezekiel. This honour is however more properly attributable to Cambyses, […]
The Duke De L’Omelette
The Duke De L’Omelette And stepped at once into a cooler clime. Keats fell by a criticism. Who was it died of ‘The Andromache?’ Ignoble souls! De L’Omelette perished of an […]
Diddling Considered as one of the Exact Sciences
Raising the Wind; or, Diddling Considered as One of the Exact Sciences Hey, diddle diddle, The cat and the fiddle. Since the world began there have been two Jeremys. The […]