Text: Edgar Allan Poe (ed. Killis Campbell), “Alone,” The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, Ginn and Company, 1917, p. 138


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POEMS ATTRIBUTED TO POE

ALONE

From childhood's hour I have not been

As others were — I have not seen

As others saw — I could not bring

My passions from a common spring —

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From the same source I have not taken

My sorrow — I could not awaken

My heart to joy at the same tone —

And all I lov’d — I lov’d alone —

Then — in my childhood — in the dawn

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Of a most stormy life — was drawn

From ev’ry depth of good and ill

The mystery which binds me still —

From the torrent, or the fountain —

From the red cliff of the mountain —

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From the sun that ’round me roll’d

In its autumn tint of gold —

From the lightning in the sky

As it pass’d me flying by —

From the thunder, and the storm —

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And the cloud that took the form

(When the rest of Heaven was blue)

Of a demon in my view.

 


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Notes:

None.

 

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