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Text: Edgar Allan Poe, "To ----" (E), The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, 1850, 2:104





[page 104, continued:]

TO ——.
 
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THE bowers whereat, in dreams, I see
    The wantonest singing birds,
Are lips — and all thy melody
    Of lip-begotten words —

Thine eyes, in Heaven of heart enshrined
    Then desolately fall,
O God! on my funereal mind
    Like starlight on a pall —

Thy heart — thy heart! — I wake and sigh,
    And sleep to dream till day
Of truth that gold can never buy —
    Of the baubles that it may.









Notes:

Griswold's version of the text is identical to that published in The Raven and Other Poems (1845), with no changes in words or puncutation.







 
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