Section: «Poems»
Verse (ancient Greek ὁ στίχος — row, structure), a term in versification used in several meanings:
artistic speech organized by division into rhythmically commensurate segments; poetry in the narrow sense; in particular, it implies the properties of versification of a particular tradition ("antique verse", "Akhmatova's verse", etc.);
a line of poetic text organized according to a certain rhythmic pattern ("My uncle of the most honest rules").
The Sleeper
At midnight, in the month of June,I stand beneath the mystic moon.An opiate vapor, dewy, dim,Exhales from out her golden rim,And, softly dripping..
© Edgar Allan Poe
Imitation
A dark unfathomed tideOf interminable pride -A mystery, and a dream,Should my early life seem;I say that dream was fraughtWith a wild and waking..
© Edgar Allan Poe
To My Mother
Because I feel that, in the Heavens above,The angels, whispering to one another,Can find, among their burning terms of love,None so devotional as..
© Edgar Allan Poe
The Conqueror Worm
Lo! 'tis a gala nightWithin the lonesome latter years!An angel throng, bewinged, bedightIn veils, and drowned in tears,Sit in a theatre, to seeA play..
© Edgar Allan Poe
To Helen
Helen, thy beauty is to meLike those Nicean barks of yore,That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,The weary, wayworn wanderer boreTo his own native shore.On..
© Edgar Allan Poe
Lenore
Ah, broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever!Let the bell toll!- a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river;And, Guy de Vere, hast thou no..
© Edgar Allan Poe
Romance
Romance, who loves to nod and sing,With drowsy head and folded wing,Among the green leaves as they shakeFar down within some shadowy lake,To me a..
© Edgar Allan Poe
Al Aaraaf
PART IO! nothing earthly save the ray(Thrown back from flowers) of Beauty's eye,As in those gardens where the daySprings from the gems of Circassy-O!..
© Edgar Allan Poe
Fairy-Land
Dim vales- and shadowy floods-And cloudy-looking woods,Whose forms we can't discoverFor the tears that drip all over!Huge moons there wax and..
© Edgar Allan Poe
Elizabeth
Elizabeth, it surely is most fit[Logic and common usage so commanding]In thy own book that first thy name be writ,Zeno and other sages..
© Edgar Allan Poe
Spirits Of The Dead
Thy soul shall find itself alone'Mid dark thoughts of the grey tomb-stone;Not one, of all the crowd, to pryInto thine hour of secrecy.Be silent in..
© Edgar Allan Poe
The Bells
IHear 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..
© Edgar Allan Poe
An Enigma
"Seldom we find," says Solomon Don Dunce,"Half an idea in the profoundest sonnet.Through all the flimsy things we see at onceAs easily as through a..
© Edgar Allan Poe
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 liesUpon the..
© Edgar Allan Poe
Eulalie
I dwelt aloneIn a world of moan,And my soul was a stagnant tide,Till the fair and gentle Eulalie became my blushing bride-Till the yellow-haired..
© Edgar Allan Poe
Dreams
Oh! that my young life were a lasting dream!My spirit not awakening, till the beamOf an Eternity should bring the morrow.Yes! tho' that long dream..
© Edgar Allan Poe
The City In The Sea
Lo! Death has reared himself a throneIn a strange city lying aloneFar down within the dim West,Where the good and the bad and the worst and the..
© Edgar Allan Poe
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 these lands..
© Edgar Allan Poe
Bridal Ballad
The ring is on my hand,And the wreath is on my brow;Satin and jewels grandAre all at my command,And I am happy now.And my lord he loves me well;But..
© Edgar Allan Poe
Evening Star
'Twas noontide of summer,And mid-time of night;And stars, in their orbits,Shone pale, thro' the lightOf the brighter, cold moon,'Mid planets her..
© Edgar Allan Poe
A Dream
In visions of the dark nightI have dreamed of joy departed-But a waking dream of life and lightHath left me broken-hearted.Ah! what is not a dream by..
© Edgar Allan Poe
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-This knight so..
© Edgar Allan Poe
The Raven
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,While I nodded, nearly napping..
© Edgar Allan Poe
Alone
From childhood's hour I have not beenAs others were; I have not seenAs others saw; I could not bringMy passions from a common spring.From the same..
© Edgar Allan Poe
A Dream Within A Dream
Take this kiss upon the brow!And, in parting from you now,Thus much let me avow-You are not wrong, who deemThat my days have been a dream;Yet if hope..
© Edgar Allan Poe