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The Raven
Illustration Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore— While…
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The Bells
Illustration Illustration: THE BELLS I Hear the sledges with the bells— Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How…
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Ulalume
Illustration The skies they were ashen and sober; The leaves they were crispèd and sere— The leaves they were withering and sere; It was ni…
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Bridal Ballad
Illustration The ring is on my hand, And the wreath is on my brow; Satins and jewels grand Are all at my command, And I am happy now. And m…
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Lenore
Illustration Ah, broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown for ever! Let the bell toll!—a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river. And,…
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A Valentine
For her this rhyme is penned, whose luminous eyes, Brightly expressive as the twins of Leda, Shall find her own sweet name, that nestling l…
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An Enigma
Illustration “Seldom we find,” says Solomon Don Dunce, “Half an idea in the profoundest sonnet. Through all the flimsy things we see at onc…
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Annabel Lee
Illustration 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 LE…
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For Annie
Illustration Thank Heaven! the crisis— The danger is past, And the lingering illness Is over at last— And the fever called “Living” Is conq…
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To —— ——
Not long ago, the writer of these lines, In the mad pride of intellectuality, Maintained “the power of words”—denied that ever A thought ar…
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The City In The Sea
Illustration Lo! Death has reared himself a throne In a strange city lying alone Far down within the dim West, Where the good and the bad a…
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The Conqueror Worm
Lo! ’tis a gala night Within the lonesome latter years! An angel throng, bewinged, bedight In veils, and drowned in tears, Sit in a theatre…
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The Sleeper
Illustration At midnight, in the month of June, I stand beneath the mystic moon. An opiate vapour, dewy, dim, Exhales from out her golden r…
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The Coliseum
Illustration Type of the antique Rome! Rich reliquary Of lofty contemplation left to Time By buried centuries of pomp and power! At length—…
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Dreamland
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…
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Eulalie
Illustration I dwelt alone In a world of moan, And my soul was a stagnant tide, Till the fair and gentle Eulalie became my blushing bride—…
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To My Mother
Illustration Because I feel that, in the Heavens above, The angels, whispering to one another, Can find, among their burning terms of love,…
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Eldorado
Gaily bedight, A gallant knight, In sunshine and in shadow, Had journeyed long, Singing a song, In search of Eldorado. But he grew old— Thi…
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To F——
Illustration BELOVED! amid the earnest woes That crowd around my earthly path— (Drear path, alas! where grows Not even one lonely rose)— My…
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To One In Paradise
Thou wast that all to me, love, For which my soul did pine— A green isle in the sea, love, A fountain and a shrine, All wreathed with fairy…
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Hymn
Illustration At morn—at noon—at twilight dim— Maria! thou hast heard my hymn! In joy and woe—in good and ill— Mother of God, be with me sti…
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A Dream Within A Dream
Illustration Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow— You are not wrong, who deem That my days ha…
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To Zante
Illustration Fair isle, that from the fairest of all flowers, Thy gentlest of all gentle names dost take! How many memories of what radiant…
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The Haunted Palace
Illustration In the greenest of our valleys By good angels tenanted, Once a fair and stately palace— Radiant palace—reared its head. In the…
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Silence
Illustration There are some qualities—some incorporate things, That have a double life, which thus is made A type of that twin entity which…
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Israfel
Illustration And the angel Israfel, whose heart-strings are a lute, and who has the sweetest voice of all God’s creatures.—Koran. In Heaven…
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To M. L. S——
Illustration Of all who hail thy presence as the morning— Of all to whom thine absence is the night— The blotting utterly from out high hea…
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The Valley Of Unrest
Illustration Once it smiled a silent dell Where the people did not dwell; They had gone unto the wars, Trusting to the mild-eyed stars, Nig…
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Poems Written In Youth
Illustration NOTE (1845) Private reasons—some of which have reference to the sin of plagiarism, and others to the date of Tennyson’s first…
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To Helen - (1)
Illustration Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore, That gently, o’er a perfumed sea, The weary, wayworn wanderer bore…
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To Helen - (2)
Illustration: TIMOUR AL AARAAF Illustration AL AARAAF. PART I. Illustration O! nothing earthly save the ray (Thrown back from flowers) of B…
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To Helen - (3)
Page 141. Apart from Heaven’s Eternity—and yet how far from Hell. With the Arabians there is a medium between Heaven and Hell, where men su…
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To Helen - (4)
V The Suburbs. POLITIAN alone. Politian. This weakness grows upon me. I am faint, And much I fear me, ill—it will not do To die ere I have…
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To Helen - (5)
In regard to the Iliad, we have, if not positive proof, at least very good reason, for believing it intended as a series of lyrics; but, gr…
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To Helen - (6)
Among the “Melodies” of Thomas Moore is one whose distinguished character as a poem proper seems to have been singularly left out of view.…
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To Helen - (7)
Regarding, then, Beauty as my province, my next question referred to the tone of its highest manifestation—and all experience has shown tha…