The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe/Volume 2

by Edgar Allan Poe

THE WORKS

 

OF THE LATE

 

EDGAR ALLAN POE

 

WITH

 

A Memoir
BY RUFUS WILMOT GRISWOLD

 

AND

 

NOTICES OF HIS LIFE AND GENIUS
BY N. P. WILLIS AND J. R. LOWELL

 

IN FOUR VOLUMES

 

II.
POEMS AND TALES

 

NEW YORK:

BLAKEMAN & MASON

1859

 

 

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Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1849, by
J. S. REDFIELD,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court, for the Southern District
of New York.

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PREFACE TO THE POEMS.

 

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These trifles are collected and republished chiefly with a view to their redemption from the many improvements to which they have been subjected while going at random "the rounds of the press." I am naturally anxious that what I have written should circulate as I wrote it, if it circulate at all. In defence of my own taste, nevertheless, it is incumbent upon me to say that I think nothing in this volume of much value to the public, or very creditable to myself. Events not to be controlled have prevented me from making, at any time, any serious effort in what, under happier circumstances, would have been the field of my choice. With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence; they must not—they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations of mankind.

E. A. P.

 

 

CONTENTS OF VOL. II.

 

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Preface to the Poems,	iii
Contents,	v
The Poetic Principle,	vii
The Raven,	7
Lenore,	12
Hymn,	13
A Valentine,	14
The Coliseum,	15
To Helen,	17
To —— ——,	19
Ulalume,	20
The Bells,	23
An Enigma,	26
Annabel Lee,	27
To My Mother,	28
The Haunted Palace,	29
The Conqueror Worm,	31
To F. S. O.,	32
To One in Paradise,	33
The Valley of Unrest,	34
The City in the Sea,	35
The Sleeper,	37
Silence,	39
A Dream within a Dream,⁠⁠⁠⁠	40
Dream-Land,	41
To Zante,	43
Eulalie,	44
Eldorado,	45
Israfel,	46
For Annie,	48

To ——,	51
Bridal Ballad,	52
To F——,	53
Scenes from "Politian,"	54
Sonnet—To Science,	77
Al Aaraaf,	78
To the River ——,	95
Tamerlane,	96
To ——,	104
A Dream,	105
Romance,	106
Fairy-Land,	107
The Lake—To——,	109
Song,	110
To M. L. S.,	111
Eureka,	117
Rational of Verse,	215
Philosophy of Composition,	259
Power of Words,	271
The Colloquy of Monos and Una,	276
The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion,	286
Shadow,	292
Silence,	295
Philosophy of Furniture,	299
A Tale of Jerusalem,	306
A Tale of the Ragged Mountains,	311
The Spectacles,	322
The Duc de L'Omelette,	347
The Oblong Box,	351
King Pest,	363
Three Sundays in a Week,	376
The Devil in the Belfry,	383
Lionizing,	392
The Man of the Crowd,	398
Never Bet the Devil Your Head,	408
Thou art the Man,	418
The Sphinx,	433
Some Words with a Mummy,	438
Hop-Frog,	455
Four Beasts in One; the Homo-cameleopard,	465
Why the Little Frenchman wears his Hand in a Sling,⁠	473
Bon Bon,	479