The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe/Volume 2/To F——

The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe
Volume II. Poems and Tales
To F——
1788The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe
Volume II. Poems and Tales — To F——

TO F——.


Beloved! amid the earnest woes
That crowd around my earthly path—
(Drear path, alas! where grows
Not even one lonely rose)—
My soul at least a solace hath
In dreams of thee, and therein knows
An Eden of bland repose.

And thus thy memory is to me
Like some enchanted far-off isle
In some tumultuous sea—
Some ocean throbbing far and free
With storms—but where meanwhile
Serenest skies continually
Just o'er that one bright island smile.