The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe/Volume 2
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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
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.
PREFACE TO THE POEMS.
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.
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 |