Text: Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane” (Study Text - ATMP-JN)


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[page 43, unnumbered:]

Title: TAMERLANE.

Rule: —————

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Stanza: 18

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Line-01-180 Upon the Siroc wither’d plain, [page 52:]

Line-01-182 And failing in thy power to bless

Line-01-183 But leav'st the heart a wilderness!

Line-01-184 Idea! which bindest life around

Line-01-185 With music of so strange a sound

Line-01-186 And beauty of so wild a birth —

Line-01-187 Farewell! for I have won the Earth!

Stanza: 19

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Line-01-188 When Hope, the eagle that tower’d, could see

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Line-02-188 When towering Eagle-Hope could see

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Line-01-189 [[indent]] No cliff beyond him in the sky,

Line-01-190 His pinions were bent droopingly —

Line-01-191 [[indent]] And homeward turn’d his soften’d eye.

Stanza: 20

Line-01-192 ’Twas sunset: when the sun will part

Line-01-193 There comes a sullenness of heart

Line-01-194 To him who still would look upon

Line-01-195 The glory of the summer sun.

Line-01-196 That soul will hate the ev’ning mist

Line-01-197 So often lovely, and will list

Line-01-198 To the sound of the coming darkness (known

Line-01-199 To those whose spirits harken) as one

Line-01-200 Who, in a dream of night, would fly

Line-01-201 But cannot from a danger nigh. [page 53:]

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Notes:

For an explanation of the formatting used in this Study Text, see editorial policies and methods. This format is very much an experiment, particularly for poetry. Since there is only one change, only the portion affected is given here. For the version with changes applied, see the full poem.

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