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The Raven and Other Selected Poems
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Edgar Allan Poe
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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.‘ “…Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!”Quoth the Raven, “Nevermore.” ’This selection of Edgar Allan Poe’s poetical works includes some of his best-known pieces, including the triumphant, gleeful ‘The Bells’, the tragic ode ‘Annabel Lee’ and his famous gothic tour de force, ‘The Raven’. Some present powerful, nightmarish images of the macabre and bizarre, while others have at their heart a profound sense of love, beauty and loss. All are linguistic masterpieces that demonstrate Poe’s gift for marrying rhythm, form and meaning.An American writer of primarily prose and literary criticism, Edgar Allen Poe never ceased writing poetry throughout his turbulent life, and is today regarded as a central figure of American literary romanticism. He died in 1849.

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In visions of the dark night

I have dreamed of joy departed—

But a waking dream of life and light

Hath left me broken-hearted.

Ah! what is not a dream by day

To him whose eyes are cast

On things around him with a ray

Turned back upon the past?

That holy dream—that holy dream,

While all the world were chiding,

Hath cheered me as a lovely beam,

A lonely spirit guiding.

What though that light, thro’ storm and night,

So trembled from afar—

What could there be more purely bright

In Truth’s day star?

1827

A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM A Dream within a Dream Dreams Evening Star “In Youth I Have Known One” (Stanzas) Song Spirits of the Dead Tamerlane “The Happiest Day, the Happiest Hour” The Lake Al Aaraaf Alone Elizabeth Fairy-Land Romance Sonnet—To Science To– – (“I heed not that my earthly lot”) To– – (“The bowers whereat, in dreams, I see”) To the River A Pæan Israfel Lenore The City in the Sea The Sleeper The Valley of Unrest To Helen (“Helen, thy beauty is to me”) Serenade The Coliseum To One in Paradise Hymn To F— — (“Beloved! amid the earnest woes”) To Frances S. Osgood Bridal Ballad Sonnet—To Zante The Haunted Palace Sonnet—Silence The Conqueror Worm Dream-Land Epigram for Wall Street Eulalie—A Song A Valentine To Marie Louise Shew (“Of all who hail thy presence as the morning”) Ulalume—A Ballad An Enigma To Marie Louise Shew (“Not long ago, the writer of these lines”) To Helen (“I saw thee once—once only— years ago”) Annabel Lee Eldorado For Annie The Bells To My Mother Classic Literature: Words and Phrases About the Publisher

Take this kiss upon the brow!

And, in parting from you now,

Thus much let me avow—

You are not wrong, who deem

That my days have been a dream:

Yet if hope has flown away

In a night, or in a day,

In a vision or in none,

Is it therefore the less gone ?

All that we see or seem

Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar

Of a surf-tormented shore,

And I hold within my hand

Grains of the golden sand—

How few! yet how they creep

Through my fingers to the deep

While I weep—while I weep!

O God! can I not grasp

Them with a tighter clasp?

O God! can I not save

One from the pitiless wave?

Is all that we see or seem

But a dream within a dream?

1827

DREAMS Dreams Evening Star “In Youth I Have Known One” (Stanzas) Song Spirits of the Dead Tamerlane “The Happiest Day, the Happiest Hour” The Lake Al Aaraaf Alone Elizabeth Fairy-Land Romance Sonnet—To Science To– – (“I heed not that my earthly lot”) To– – (“The bowers whereat, in dreams, I see”) To the River A Pæan Israfel Lenore The City in the Sea The Sleeper The Valley of Unrest To Helen (“Helen, thy beauty is to me”) Serenade The Coliseum To One in Paradise Hymn To F— — (“Beloved! amid the earnest woes”) To Frances S. Osgood Bridal Ballad Sonnet—To Zante The Haunted Palace Sonnet—Silence The Conqueror Worm Dream-Land Epigram for Wall Street Eulalie—A Song A Valentine To Marie Louise Shew (“Of all who hail thy presence as the morning”) Ulalume—A Ballad An Enigma To Marie Louise Shew (“Not long ago, the writer of these lines”) To Helen (“I saw thee once—once only— years ago”) Annabel Lee Eldorado For Annie The Bells To My Mother Classic Literature: Words and Phrases About the Publisher

Oh! that my young life were a lasting dream!

My spirit not awakening, till the beam

Of an Eternity should bring the morrow.

Yes! though that long dream were of hopeless sorrow,

’Twere better than the cold reality

Of waking life, to him whose heart must be,

And hath been still, upon the lovely earth,

A chaos of deep passion, from his birth.

But should it be—that dream eternally

Continuing—as dreams have been to me

In my young boyhood—should it thus be given,

’Twere folly still to hope for higher Heaven.

For I have revelled when the sun was bright

I’ the summer sky, in dreams of living light

And loveliness,—have left my very heart

Inclines of my imaginary apart

From mine own home, with beings that have been

Of mine own thought—what more could I have seen?

’Twas once—and only once—and the wild hour

From my remembrance shall not pass—some power

Or spell had bound me—’twas the chilly wind

Came o’er me in the night, and left behind

Its image on my spirit—or the moon

Shone on my slumbers in her lofty noon

Too coldly—or the stars—howe’er it was

That dream was that that night-wind—let it pass.

I have been happy, though in a dream.

I have been happy—and I love the theme:

Dreams! in their vivid coloring of life

As in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strife

Of semblance with reality which brings

To the delirious eye, more lovely things

Of Paradise and Love—and all my own!—

Than young Hope in his sunniest hour hath known.

1827

EVENING STAR Evening Star “In Youth I Have Known One” (Stanzas) Song Spirits of the Dead Tamerlane “The Happiest Day, the Happiest Hour” The Lake Al Aaraaf Alone Elizabeth Fairy-Land Romance Sonnet—To Science To– – (“I heed not that my earthly lot”) To– – (“The bowers whereat, in dreams, I see”) To the River A Pæan Israfel Lenore The City in the Sea The Sleeper The Valley of Unrest To Helen (“Helen, thy beauty is to me”) Serenade The Coliseum To One in Paradise Hymn To F— — (“Beloved! amid the earnest woes”) To Frances S. Osgood Bridal Ballad Sonnet—To Zante The Haunted Palace Sonnet—Silence The Conqueror Worm Dream-Land Epigram for Wall Street Eulalie—A Song A Valentine To Marie Louise Shew (“Of all who hail thy presence as the morning”) Ulalume—A Ballad An Enigma To Marie Louise Shew (“Not long ago, the writer of these lines”) To Helen (“I saw thee once—once only— years ago”) Annabel Lee Eldorado For Annie The Bells To My Mother Classic Literature: Words and Phrases About the Publisher

’Twas noontide of summer,

And midtime of night,

And stars, in their orbits,

Shone pale, through the light

Of the brighter, cold moon.

’Mid planets her slaves,

Herself in the Heavens,

Her beam on the waves.

I gazed awhile

On her cold smile;

Too cold—too cold for me—

There passed, as a shroud,

A fleecy cloud,

And I turned away to thee,

Proud Evening Star,

In thy glory afar

And dearer thy beam shall be;

For joy to my heart

Is the proud part

Thou bearest in Heaven at night,

And more I admire

Thy distant fire,

Than that colder, lowly light.

1827

“IN YOUTH I HAVE KNOWN ONE” “In Youth I Have Known One” (Stanzas) Song Spirits of the Dead Tamerlane “The Happiest Day, the Happiest Hour” The Lake Al Aaraaf Alone Elizabeth Fairy-Land Romance Sonnet—To Science To– – (“I heed not that my earthly lot”) To– – (“The bowers whereat, in dreams, I see”) To the River A Pæan Israfel Lenore The City in the Sea The Sleeper The Valley of Unrest To Helen (“Helen, thy beauty is to me”) Serenade The Coliseum To One in Paradise Hymn To F— — (“Beloved! amid the earnest woes”) To Frances S. Osgood Bridal Ballad Sonnet—To Zante The Haunted Palace Sonnet—Silence The Conqueror Worm Dream-Land Epigram for Wall Street Eulalie—A Song A Valentine To Marie Louise Shew (“Of all who hail thy presence as the morning”) Ulalume—A Ballad An Enigma To Marie Louise Shew (“Not long ago, the writer of these lines”) To Helen (“I saw thee once—once only— years ago”) Annabel Lee Eldorado For Annie The Bells To My Mother Classic Literature: Words and Phrases About the Publisher