Poems by Edgar Allan Poe

Type of the antique Rome! Rich reliquary
Of lofty contemplation left to Time
By buried centurie...

Lo! 'tis a gala night
Within the lonesome latter years!
An angel throng, bewinged, bedight
...

In visions of the dark night
I have dreamed of joy departed
But a waking dream of life and lig...

By a route obscure and lonely,
Haunted by ill angels only,
Where an Eidolon, named Night, ...

Oh! That my young life were a lasting dream!
My spirit not awakening, till the beam
Of an E...

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow
You are ...

Gaily bedight,
A gallant knight,
In sunshine and in shadow,
Had journeyed long,
Singin...

"Seldom we find, " says Solomon Don Dunce,
"Half an idea in the profoundest sonnet.
Through a...

I O! Nothing earthly save the ray
(Thrown back from flowers) of Beauty's eye,
As in those...

'Twas noontide of summer,
And midtime of night,
And stars, in their orbits,
Shone pale, ...

Dim valesand shadowy floods
And cloudy-looking woods,
Whose forms we can't discover
For th...

Thank Heaven! The crisis
The danger is past,
And the lingering illness
Is over at last
And ...

I The happiest daythe happiest hour
My seared and blighted heart hath known,
The highest ho...

In the greenest of our valleys
By good angels tenanted,
Once a fair and stately palace
Radia...

At mornat noonat twilight dim
Maria! Thou hast heard my hymn!
In joy and woin good and ill
Mot...