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Selections from Poe's Poems

Index of First Lines:

• "A dark unfathom'd tide"  ("Imitation")
• "A wilder'd being from my birth"   ("[A Dream]")
• "Ah broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever!"  ("Lenore")
• "As for Locke, he is all in my eye"  ("[Lines on Joe Locke]")
• "At midnight in the month of June"  ("The Sleeper")
• "At morn — at noon — at twilight dim —"  ("Catholic Hymn")

• "Because I feel that, in the Heavens above"  ("To My Mother")
• "Because the angels in the Heavens above"  ("To My Mother")
• "The bells! — hear the bells!"   ("The Bells")
• "Beloved! amid the earnest woes"  ("To F—")
• "The bowers whereat, in dreams, I see"  ("To — —")
• "By a route obscure and lonely"  ("Dream-Land")

• "A dark unfathom'd tide"  ("Imitation")
• "Deep in Earth my love is lying"  ("[Deep in Earth]")
• "Dim vales — and shadowy floods —"   ("Fairyland")
• "The dying swan by northern lakes"  ("Fanny")

• "Eliza! — let thy generous heart"  ("Lines Written in an Album")
• "Elizabeth it is in vain you say"   ("[An Acrostic]")
• "Elizabeth — it surely is most fit"  ("[Elizabeth]")

• "Fair isle, that from the fairest of all flowers"  ("Sonnet — To Zante")
• "Fair maiden, let thy generous heart"  ("To —")
• "Fair river! in thy bright,clear flow"  ("To the River — —")
• "Fairies guard the Queen of May"  ("[May Queen Ode]")
• "Far away — far away —"   ("The Valley Nis" ["The Valley of Unrest"])
• "Fill with mingled cream and amber"  ("[Lines on Ale]")
• "For her this rhyme is penned, whose luminous eyes"  ("A Valentine")
• "From childhood's hour I have not been"   ("[Alone]")

• "Gaily bedight"  ("Eldorado")

• "The happiest day — the happiest hour"  ("[The Happiest Day]")
• "Hark, echo! — Hark; echo!"  ("Spiritual Song")
• "Hear the sledges with the bells —"  ("The Bells")
• "Helen, thy beauty is to me"   ("To Helen")
• "How shall the burial rite be read?"   ("A Paean")

• "I Dwelt alone"  ("Eulalie — A Song")
• "I have sent for thee, holy friar;"  ("Tamerlane")
• "I saw thee on the bridal day;"  ("To — —" ["Song"])
• "I saw thee on thy bridal day —"    ("To — —"  ["Song]")
• "I saw thee once — once only — years ago"  ("To Helen")
• "I would not lord it o'er thy heart"  ("To — — [Violet Vane"")
• "I'll tell you a plan for gaining wealth"  ("Epigram for Wallstreet")
• "In Heaven a spirit doth dwell"  ("Israfel")
• "In spring of youth, it was my lot"   ("The Lake — To —")
• "In the greenest of our valleys"  ("The Haunted Palace")
• "In visions of the dark night"   ("A Dream")
• "In youth have I known one with whom the Earth"    ("[Untitled]")
• "In youth's spring, it was my lot"   ("The Lake")
• "It was many and many a year ago"   ("Annabel Lee")
• "It was my choice or chance or curse"  ("[To Isaac Lea")

• "Kind solace in a dying hour! —    ("Tamerlane"  1829 version)

• "Lady! I would that verse of mine"  ("Stanzas")
• "Last night, with cares and toils oppress'd"  ("Poetry")
• "Lo! Death has reared himself a throne"   ("The City in the Sea")
• "Lo! Death hath rear'd himself a throne"   ("The Doomed City" ["The City in the Sea"])
• "Lo! 'tis a gala night"  ("The Conqueror Worm")

• "Mary, amid the cares — the woes"  ("To Mary")
• "Mille, mille, mille"  ("[Latin Hymn]")
• "Mysterious Star!"   ("Al Aaraaf")

• "The noblest name in Allegory's page"  ("Enigma")

• "O! I care not that my earthly lot"   ("To M—")
• "O! nothing earthly save the ray"   ("Al Aaraaf")
• "O, Times! O, Manners! It is my opinion"  ("O, Tempora! O, Mores!")
• "Oh! that my young life were a lasting dream!"  ("Dreams")
• "Of all who hail thy presence as the morning —"  ("To Mrs. M. L. S.")
• "Once it smiled a silent dell"  ("The Valley of Unrest")
• "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary"  ("The Raven")
• "The only king by right divine"  ("The Divine Right of Kings")

• "The pulse beats ten and intermits"  ("Beloved Physician")

• "Romance who loves to nod and sing"    ("Preface" ["Romance"])
• "The ring is on my hand"  ("Bridal Ballad")

• "Sancta Maria! turn thine eyes"  ("Catholic Hymn")
• "Science! meet daughter of old Time thou art"   ("[Sonnet — To Science"]
• "See the White Eagle soaring aloft to the sky"  ("[A Campaign Song]")
• "'Seldom we find,' says Solomon Don Dunce"  ("Sonnet" ["An Enigma"])
• "Seraph! thy memory is to me"  ("To One Departed")
• "Should my early life seem,"    ("To — —")
• "Sit down beside me, Isabel"  ("Fairy Land")
• "The skies they were ashen and sober"  ("Ulalume")
• "Sleep on, sleep on, another hour —"  ("To — —")
• "So sweet the hour — so calm the time"  ("Serenade")

• "'T is now (so sings the soaring moon)"  ("Irene" ["The Sleeper")
• "Take this kiss upon the brow!"  ("A Dream Within a Dream")
• "Thank Heaven! — the crisis —"  ("For Annie")
• "The bowers whereat, in dreams, I see"  ("To — —")
• "The happiest day — the happiest hour"    ("[The Happiest Day]")
• "There are some qualities — some incorporate things"  ("Sonnet — Silence")
• "Thou wast all that to me, love"  ("To One in Paradise")
• "Thou wouldst be loved? — then let thy heart"  ("To F—-s S. O——-d.")
• "Though I turn, I fly not"  ("To Miss Loiuse Olivia Hunter")
• "Thy soul shall find itself alone —"   ("Visit of the Dead" ["Spirits of the Dead"])
• "'Twas noontide of summer,"    ("Evening Star")
• "Type of the antique Rome! Rich reliquary"  ("The Coliseum")

• "When from your gems of thought I turn"  ("Impromptu. To Kate Carol")
• "When wit, and wine, and friends have met"  ("[To Octavia]")
• "Who hath seduced thee to this foul revolt"  ("To Margaret")
• "Who is king but Epiphanes?"  ("[Song of Triumph]")
• "A wilder'd being from my birth"  ("[A Dream]")
• "Would'st thou be loved? — then let thy heart"  ("To Elizabeth")