Lenore

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 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.

"Wretches! ye loved her for her wealth and hated her for her pride,
And when she fell in feeble health, ye blessed her- that she died!
How shall the ritual, then, be read?- the requiem how be sung
By you- by yours, the evil eye,- by yours, the slanderous tongue
That did to death the innocence that died, and died so young?"

Peccavimus; but rave not thus! and let a Sabbath song
Go up to God so solemnly the dead may feel no wrong.
The sweet Lenore hath "gone before," with Hope, that flew beside,
Leaving thee wild for the dear child that should have been thy
bride. For her, the fair and debonair, that now so lowly lies,
The life upon her yellow hair but not within her eyes
The life still there, upon her hair–the death upon her eyes.

"Avaunt! avaunt! from fiends below, the indignant ghost is riven
From Hell unto a high estate far up within the Heaven
From grief and groan, to a golden throne, beside the King of Heaven!
Let no bell toll, then,–lest her soul, amid its hallowed mirth,
Should catch the note as it doth float up from the damned Earth!
And I!–to-night my heart is light!–no dirge will I upraise,
But waft the angel on her flight with a Paean of old days!"
Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe Stories and Tales

Some Words With A Mummy, The Oblong Box,
The Pit And The Pendulum, Eleonora,
The Masque Of The Red Death, The Sphinx,
The Murders In The Rue Morgue,
The Purloined Letter, King Pest,
The Fall Of The House Of Usher,
The Devil In The Belfry, The Tell Tale Heart,
A Tale Of Jerusalem, The Business Man,
The Landscape Garden, Loss Of Breath,

Other Poems by Edgar Allan Poe

A Dream Within A Dream,
Beloved Physician, Bells,
The Divine Right Of Kings,
Elizabeth, Spirits of the Dead,
Epigram for Wall Street,
The Haunted Palace,
Romance, To One In Paradise,
The Valley of Unrest

Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe

Poetry is the rhythmical
creation of beauty in words.
Edgar Allan Poe

They who dream by day are cognizant
of many things which escape those
who dream only by night.
Edgar Allan Poe

Once upon a midnight dreary,
while I pondered weak and weary...
Edgar Allan Poe

In one case out of a hundred a point
is excessively discussed because it
is obscure; in the ninety-nine
remaining it is obscure because it
is excessively discussed.
Edgar Allan Poe

A gentleman with a pug nose is
a contradiction in terms.
Edgar Allan Poe

All that we see or seem is but
a dream within a dream.
Edgar Allan Poe

Poems by Edgar Allan Poe

Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
Bridal Ballad

Poems by Famous Classical Poets
Love In The City
Wedding Customs Traditions and Superstions
Love Romance and Kisses
Romantic Love Quotes
Love and Romance Greeting Cards