Text: Edgar Allan Poe (ed. Killis Campbell), “Eulalie — A Song,” The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, Ginn and Company, 1917, p. 114


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EULALIE — A SONG   [[n]]

I dwelth alone

In a world of moan,

And my soul was a stagnant tide,

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Till the fair and gentle Eulalie became my blushing bride —

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Till the yellow-haired young Eulalie became my smiling bride.

Ah, less — less bright

The stars of the night

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Than the eyes of the radiant girl!

And never a flake

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That the vapor can make

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With the moon-tints of purple and pearl,

Can vie with the modest Eulalie's most unregarded curl —

Can compare with the bright-eyed Eulalie's most humble and careless curl.

Now Doubt — now Pain

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Come never again,

For her soul gives me sigh for sigh,

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And all day long

Shines, bright and strong,

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Astarte within the sky,

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While ever to her dear Eulalie upturns her matron eye —

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While ever to her young Eulalie upturns her violet eye.

(1845)

 


[[Variants]]

[The following variants appear at the bottom of page 114:]

11 moon-tints: morn-tints (A. W. R.).

17 And: While (A. W. R., B.J.).

20 While: And (A. W. R., B.J.).

21 While: And (A. W. R., B.J.).

 


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Notes:

None.

 

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