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''Taught me my alphabet to say,
To lisp my very earliest word,''
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Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), U.S. poet. Romance (l. 7-8). . .
Complete Poems and Selected Essays [Edgar Allan Poe]. Richard Gray, ed. (1993) Every...
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''Of late, eternal Condor years
So shake the very Heaven on high
With tumult as they thunder by,
I have no time for idle cares
Through gazing on the unquiet sky.''
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Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), U.S. poet. Romance (l. 11-15). . .
Complete Poems and Selected Essays [Edgar Allan Poe]. Richard Gray, ed. (1993) Eve...
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The want of an international Copy-Right Law, by rendering it nearly impossible to obtain anything from the booksellers in the way of remuneration for literary labor, has had the effect of forcing many...
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Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), U.S. author. "Some Secrets of the Magazine Prison-House," Broadway Journal (1845).
Poe's heroic crusade for the recog...
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Hast thou not dragged Diana from her car,
And driven the hamadryad from the wood
To seek a shelter in some happier star?
Hast thou not torn the naiad from her flood,
The elfin from...
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Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), U.S. poet. Sonnet—To Science (l. 9-16). . .
Complete Poems and Selected Essays [Edgar Allan Poe]. Richard Gray, ...
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Science! true daughter of old Time thou art!
Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes.
Why preyest thou thus upon the poet's heart,
Vulture, whose wings are dull realities?
Ho...
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Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), U.S. poet. Sonnet—To Science (l. 1-6). . .
Complete Poems and Selected Essays [Edgar Allan Poe]. Richard Gray, e...
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If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment, the opportunity is his own—the road to immortal renown...
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Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1845), U.S. poet, critic, short-story writer. repr. In The Centenary Poe, ed. Montagu Slater (1949). "Suggested Title—'Hear...
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''This wild star—it is now three centuries since, with clasped hands, and with streaming eyes,... I spoke it ... into birth.''
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Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), U.S. author. The angel Agathos, in "The Power of Words," Democratic Review (1845).
Expressing Poe's longing for telek...
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''And all my days are trances,
And all my nightly dreams
Are where thy dark eye glances,
And where thy footstep gleams—
In what ethereal dances,
By what eternal streams.''
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Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), U.S. poet. The Assignation (l. 21-26). . .
Complete Poems and Selected Essays [Edgar Allan Poe]. Richard Gray, ed. (1...
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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...
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Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), U.S. poet. The Bells (l. 6-12). . .
Complete Poems and Selected Essays [Edgar Allan Poe]. Richard Gray, ed. (1993) Ev...
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''Hear the sledges with the bells—
Silver bells!''
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Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), U.S. poet. The Bells (l. 1-2). . .
Complete Poems and Selected Essays [Edgar Allan Poe]. Richard Gray, ed. (1993) Eve...
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