Edgar Allan Poe Poems of Manhood

Daguerreotype of Edgar Allan Poe, known as the “Annie” Daguerreotype

DREAMLAND POEM by Edgar Allan Poe By a route obscure and lonely, Haunted by ill angels only, Where an Eidolon, named Night, On a black throne reigns upright, I have reached these lands but newly From an ultimate dim Thule— From a wild weird clime that lieth, sublime, Out of Space—out of Time. Bottomless vales […]

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LENORE POEM by Edgar Allan Poe Ah, broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever! Let the bell toll!—a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river; And, Guy de Vere, hast thou no tear?—weep now or nevermore! See! on yon drear and rigid bier low lies thy love, Lenore! Come! let the burial rite […]

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THE CONQUEROR WORM POEM by Edgar Allan Poe Lo! ’tis a gala night Within the lonesome latter years! An angel throng, bewinged, bedight In veils, and drowned in tears, Sit in a theatre, to see A play of hopes and fears, While the orchestra breathes fitfully The music of the spheres. Mimes, in the form […]

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THE HAUNTED PALACE POEM by Edgar Allan Poe In the greenest of our valleys By good angels tenanted, Once a fair and stately palace— Radiant palace—reared its head. In the monarch Thought’s dominion— It stood there! Never seraph spread a pinion Over fabric half so fair! Banners yellow, glorious, golden, On its roof did float […]

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SONNET—SILENCE POEM by Edgar Allan Poe There are some qualities—some incorporate things, That have a double life, which thus is made A type of that twin entity which springs From 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 […]

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SONNET—TO ZANTE POEM by Edgar Allan Poe Fair isle, that from the fairest of all flowers, Thy gentlest of all gentle names dost take! How many memories of what radiant hours At sight of thee and thine at once awake! How many scenes of what departed bliss! How many thoughts of what entombed hopes! How […]

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TO ONE IN PARADISE POEM by Edgar Allan Poe Thou wast all that to me, love, For which my soul did pine— A green isle in the sea, love, A fountain and a shrine, All wreathed with fairy fruits and flowers, And all the flowers were mine. Ah, dream to bright to last! Ah, starry […]

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Serenade Poem by Edgar Allan Poe So sweet the hour, so calm the time, I feel it more than half a crime, When Nature sleeps and stars are mute, To mar the silence ev’n with lute. At rest on ocean’s brilliant dyes An image of Elysium lies: Seven Pleiades entranced in Heaven, Form in the […]

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CATHOLIC HYMN POEM by Edgar Allan Poe At morn—at noon—at twilight dim— Maria! thou hast heard my hymn! In joy and woe—in good and ill— Mother of God, be with me still! When the hours flew brightly by, And not a cloud obscured the sky, My soul, lest it should truant be, Thy grace did […]

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THE COLISEUM POEM by Edgar Allan Poe Type of the antique Rome! Rich reliquary Of lofty contemplation left to Time By buried centuries of pomp and power! At length—at length—after so many days Of weary pilgrimage and burning thirst, (Thirst for the springs of lore that in thee lie,) I kneel, an altered and an […]

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Fanny Poem by Edgar Allan Poe THE dying swan by northern lakes Sing’s [Sings] its wild death song, sweet and clear, And as the solemn music breaks O’er hill and glen dissolves in air; Thus musical thy soft voice came, Thus trembled on thy tongue my name. Like sunburst through the ebon cloud, Which veils […]

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To —— Baltimore Saturday Visiter Poem by Edgar Allan Poe Sleep on, sleep on, another hour — I would not break so calm a sleep, To wake to sunshine and to show’r, To smile and weep. Sleep on, sleep on, like sculptured thing, Majestic, beautiful art thou; Sure seraph shields thee with his wing And […]

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