In honor of The Raven‘s 171st anniversary, check out these other wonderful pieces by Edgar Allan Poe!
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Lenore
“See! on yon drear and rigid bier low lies thy love, Lenore!/Come! let the burial rite be read- the funeral song be sung!-/An anthem for the queenliest dead that ever died so young-/A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young.”
Annabel Lee
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Ulalume
“Our talk had been serious and sober/But our thoughts they were palsied and sere—/Our memories were treacherous and sere,—/For we knew not the month was October/And we marked not the night of the year/(Ah, night of all nights in the year!)—/We noted not the dim lake of Auber/(Though once we had journeyed down here)—/Remembered not the dank tarn of Auber/Nor the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir”
The Bells
“While the stars that oversprinkle/All the heavens, seem to twinkle/With a crystalline delight;/Keeping time, time, time,/In a sort of Runic rhyme,/To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells/From the bells, bells, bells, bells,/Bells, bells, bells-/From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells”
A Dream Within A Dream
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A Valentine
“For her this rhyme is penned, whose luminous eyes,Brightly expressive as the twins of Leda,Shall find her own sweet name, that nestling liesUpon the page, enwrapped from every reader.”
To – –
“With thy dear name as text, though bidden by thee,I cannot write- I cannot speak or think-Alas, I cannot feel; for ’tis not feeling,This standing motionless upon the goldenThreshold of the wide-open gate of dreams.Gazing, entranced, adown the gorgeous vista,And thrilling as I see, upon the right, Upon the left, and all the way along, Amid empurpled vapors, far awayTo where the prospect terminates- thee only.”
The Sleeper
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