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Narrative Of A. Gordon Pym by Edgar Allan Poe Narrative Of A. Gordon Pym Chapter 1-5 Narrative Of A. Gordon Pym Chapter 6-10 Narrative Of A. Gordon Pym Chapter 11-15 Narrative Of A. Gordon Pym Chapter 16-20 Narrative Of A. Gordon Pym Chapter 21-25 NARRATIVE OF A. GORDON PYM CHAPTER 21 AS soon as I […]

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Spiritual Song Poem by Edgar Allan Poe Hark, echo! – Hark, echo! ‘Tis the sound Of archangels, in happiness wrapt. A Poe unsigned manuscript (from 1836) contained this sonnet that consists of only 3 lines.

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MAELZEL’S CHESS-PLAYER by Edgar Allan Poe PERHAPS no exhibition of the kind has ever elicited so general attention as the Chess-Player of Maelzel. Wherever seen it has been an object of intense curiosity, to all persons who think. Yet the question of its modus operandi is still undetermined. Nothing has been written on this topic […]

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TO F—— POEM by Edgar Allan Poe [F—— is, presumably, Mrs. Frances Sargent Osgood] Beloved! amid the earnest woes That crowd around my earthly path— (Drear path, alas! where grows Not even one lonely rose)— My soul at least a solace hath In dreams of thee, and therein knows An Eden of bland repose. And […]

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Scenes from “Politian” Play by Edgar Allan Poe (1835) DRAMATIS PERSONAE POLITIAN, Earl of Leicester. A MONK. DI BROGLIO, a Roman Duke. LALAGE COUNT CASTIGLIONE, his son. ALESSANDRA, betrothed to BALDAZZAR, Duke of Surrey, Castiglione. Friend to Politian. JACINTA, maid to Lalage. The Scene lies in Rome Contents 1 I. 2 II. 3 III. 4 […]

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LIONIZING by Edgar Allan Poe ———— all people went Upon their ten toes in wild wonderment. —Bishop Hall’s Satires. I am—that is to say I was—a great man; but I am neither the author of Junius nor the man in the mask; for my name, I believe, is Robert Jones, and I was born somewhere […]

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SHADOW—A PARABLE by Edgar Allan Poe Yea, though I walk through the valley of the Shadow: —Psalm of David. YE who read are still among the living; but I who write shall have long since gone my way into the region of shadows. For indeed strange things shall happen, and secret things be known, and […]

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KING PEST by Edgar Allan Poe A Tale Containing an Allegory. The gods do bear and will allow in kings The things which they abhor in rascal routes. Buckhurst’s Tragedy of Ferrex and Porrex. ABOUT twelve o’clock, one night in the month of October, and during the chivalrous reign of the third Edward, two seamen […]

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MORELLA by Edgar Allan Poe Itself, by itself, solely, one everlasting, and single. PLATO: SYMPOS. WITH a feeling of deep yet most singular affection I regarded my friend Morella. Thrown by accident into her society many years ago, my soul from our first meeting, burned with fires it had never before known; but the fires […]

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BERENICE by Edgar Allan Poe Dicebant mihi sodales, si sepulchrum amicae visitarem, curas meas aliquantulum forelevatas. —Ebn Zaiat. MISERY is manifold. The wretchedness of earth is multiform. Overreaching the wide horizon as the rainbow, its hues are as various as the hues of that arch—as distinct too, yet as intimately blended. Overreaching the wide horizon […]

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THE UNPARALLELED ADVENTURES OF ONE HANS PFAALL (*1) by Edgar Allan Poe BY late accounts from Rotterdam, that city seems to be in a high state of philosophical excitement. Indeed, phenomena have there occurred of a nature so completely unexpected—so entirely novel—so utterly at variance with preconceived opinions—as to leave no doubt on my mind […]

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THE ASSIGNATION by Edgar Allan Poe Stay for me there! I will not fail. To meet thee in that hollow vale. [Exequy on the death of his wife, by Henry King, Bishop of Chichester.] ILL-FATED and mysterious man!—bewildered in the brilliancy of thine own imagination, and fallen in the flames of thine own youth! Again […]

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