Life and PoemsW.J. Widdleton, 1879 - 305 páginas |
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... CLEMM AND VIRGINIA . - POE AT WEST POINT . R. ALLAN certainly gave Edgar Poe the advan- tages of a first - rate education . The petted and precocious boy was now an accomplished youth of seventeen , fully prepared to enter college . The ...
... CLEMM AND VIRGINIA . - POE AT WEST POINT . R. ALLAN certainly gave Edgar Poe the advan- tages of a first - rate education . The petted and precocious boy was now an accomplished youth of seventeen , fully prepared to enter college . The ...
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... Clemm , who was to be his devoted friend through life , and his most enthusiastic defender after his death . Mrs. Clemm - the daughter 40 LIFE OF EDGAR A. POE .
... Clemm , who was to be his devoted friend through life , and his most enthusiastic defender after his death . Mrs. Clemm - the daughter 40 LIFE OF EDGAR A. POE .
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... Clemm , who had bravely fought for his city , State , and country- was compelled to earn a living by teaching school . It was at this time , also , that Edgar Poe first saw his cousin , Virginia Clemm , a lovely , delicate girl of seven ...
... Clemm , who had bravely fought for his city , State , and country- was compelled to earn a living by teaching school . It was at this time , also , that Edgar Poe first saw his cousin , Virginia Clemm , a lovely , delicate girl of seven ...
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... CLEMM RECEIVES HIM . - VIRGINIA , HIS PUPIL . - HIS STUDIES . - MODE OF LIFE . - ADOPTS THE LITERARY PRO- FESSION . TALES OF THE FOLIO CLUB . - GAINS THE PRIZE OFFERED BY The Saturday Visitor . M R. ALLAN received Edgar Poe very coldly ...
... CLEMM RECEIVES HIM . - VIRGINIA , HIS PUPIL . - HIS STUDIES . - MODE OF LIFE . - ADOPTS THE LITERARY PRO- FESSION . TALES OF THE FOLIO CLUB . - GAINS THE PRIZE OFFERED BY The Saturday Visitor . M R. ALLAN received Edgar Poe very coldly ...
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... Clemm , had manifested toward him when he met her in 1829 , Edgar went to Baltimore , and sought out this , his nearest rela- tive . Mrs. Clemm was poor , but poor as she was , she gave her " Eddie " ( as she always called him ) a home ...
... Clemm , had manifested toward him when he met her in 1829 , Edgar went to Baltimore , and sought out this , his nearest rela- tive . Mrs. Clemm was poor , but poor as she was , she gave her " Eddie " ( as she always called him ) a home ...
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Página 151 - Hear the sledges with the bells — Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
Página 159 - In the greenest of our valleys By good angels tenanted, Once a fair and stately palace— Radiant palace— reared its head. In the monarch Thought's dominion, It stood there; Never seraph spread a pinion Over fabric half so fair.
Página 281 - Anywhere, anywhere Out of the world ! In she plunged boldly, No matter how coldly The rough river ran, — Over the brink of it, Picture it — think of it, Dissolute Man ! Lave in it, drink of it Then, if you can...
Página 156 - IT was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of ANNABEL LEE ; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.
Página 257 - O, lift me from the grass! I die, I faint, I fail! Let thy love in kisses rain On my lips and eyelids pale. My cheek is cold and white, alas! My heart beats loud and fast: Oh! press it close to thine again, Where it will break at last!
Página 134 - Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly, Though its answer little meaning, little relevancy bore ; For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door. Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door, With such name as
Página 304 - Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, — "Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore: Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!
Página 280 - Where the lamps quiver So far in the river, With many a light From window and casement, From garret to basement, She stood, with amazement, Houseless by night.
Página 171 - By a route obscure and lonely, Haunted by ill angels only, Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT, On a black throne reigns upright, I have reached these lands but newly From an ultimate dim Thule — From a wild weird clime that lieth, sublime, Out of SPACE — out of TIME.
Página 178 - Thank Heaven! the crisis, The danger, is past, And the lingering illness Is over at last — And the fever called "Living" Is conquered at last. Sadly, I know I am shorn of my strength. And no muscle I move As I lie at full length — But no matter! — I feel I am better at length. And I rest so composedly, Now, in my bed, That any beholder Might fancy me dead — Might start at beholding me, Thinking me dead. The moaning and groaning. The sighing and sobbing, Are quieted now, With that horrible...