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Edgar Allan Poe's Poetry, by first line

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  • Thy soul shall find itself alone
    'Mid dark thoughts of the grey tomb-stone;
    28 lines, 20 comments
  • Kind solace in a dying hour!
    Such, father, is not (now) my theme-
    243 lines, 3 comments
  • The bowers whereat, in dreams, I see
    The wantonest singing birds,
    13 lines, 3 comments
  • Not long ago, the writer of these lines,
    In the mad pride of intellectuality,
    27 lines, 1 comment
  • Fair isle, that from the fairest of all flowers,
    Thy gentlest of all gentle names dost take!
    14 lines, 1 comment
  • Once it smiled a silent dell
    Where the people did not dwell;
    27 lines, 2 comments
  • Lo! Death has reared himself a throne
    In a strange city lying alone
    53 lines, 7 comments
  • Type of the antique Rome! Rich reliquary
    Of lofty contemplation left to Time
    46 lines, 1 comment
  • Lo! 'tis a gala night
    Within the lonesome latter years!
    40 lines, 6 comments
  • In visions of the dark night
    I have dreamed of joy departed-
    16 lines, 53 comments
  • Oh! that my young life were a lasting dream!
    My spirit not awakening, till the beam
    34 lines, 4 comments
  • "Seldom we find," says Solomon Don Dunce,
    "Half an idea in the profoundest sonnet.
    14 lines, 3 comments
  • Gaily bedight,
    A gallant knight,
    24 lines, 7 comments
  • Elizabeth, it surely is most fit
    [Logic and common usage so commanding]
    16 lines
  • I dwelt alone
    In a world of moan,
    21 lines, 1 comment
  • 'Twas noontide of summer,
    And mid-time of night;
    23 lines, 19 comments
  • Beloved! amid the earnest woes
    That crowd around my earthly path-
    14 lines, 3 comments
  • Dim vales- and shadowy floods-
    And cloudy-looking woods,
    46 lines, 2 comments
  • Thank Heaven! the crisis-
    The danger is past,
    102 lines, 3 comments
  • From childhood's hour I have not been
    As others were; I have not seen
    22 lines, 90 comments
  • The happiest day- the happiest hour
    My sear'd and blighted heart hath known,
    24 lines, 2 comments
  • In the greenest of our valleys
    By good angels tenanted,
    49 lines, 4 comments
  • At morn- at noon- at twilight dim-
    Maria! thou hast heard my hymn!
    12 lines, 3 comments
  • In Heaven a spirit doth dwell
    "Whose heart-strings are a lute";
    51 lines, 2 comments
  • Ah, broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever!
    Let the bell toll!- a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river;
    28 lines, 12 comments
  • O! I care not that my earthly lot
    Hath little of Earth in it,
    20 lines
  • It was many and many a year ago,
    In a kingdom by the sea,
    41 lines, 121 comments
  • Because I feel that, in the Heavens above,
    The angels, whispering to one another,
    14 lines, 13 comments
  • Thou wast all that to me, love,
    For which my soul did pine-
    26 lines, 4 comments
  • Romance, who loves to nod and sing,
    With drowsy head and folded wing,
    21 lines, 8 comments
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