Text: Edgar Allan Poe, “To M—” (Study Text)


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[page 68:]

Seq: 8.

Title: TO M——

Stanza: 1

Line-01-001: O! I care not that my earthly lot

Line-01-002: [[indent]] Hath — little of Earth in it —

Line-01-003: That years of love have been forgot

Line-01-004: [[indent]] In the fever of a minute —

Stanza: 2

Line-01-005: I heed not that the desolate

Line-01-006: [[indent]] Are happier, sweet, than I —

Line-01-007: But that you meddle with my fate

Line-01-008: [[indent]] Who am a passer-by.

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Stanza: 3

Line-01-009: It is not that my founts of bliss

Line-01-010: [[indent]] Are gushing — strange! with tears —

Line-01-011: Or that the thrill of a single kiss

Line-01-012: [[indent]] Hath palsied many years —

Stanza: 4

Line-01-013: ‘Tis not that the flowers of twenty springs

Line-01-014: [[indent]] Which have wither’d as they rose [page 69:]

Line-01-015: Lie dead on my heart-strings

Line-01-016: [[indent]] With the weight of an age of snows.

Stanza: 5

Line-01-017: Nor that the grass — O! may it thrive!

Line-01-018: [[indent]] On my grave is growing or grown —

Line-01-019: But that, while I am dead yet alive

Line-01-020: [[indent]] I cannot be, lady, alone.

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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. For the version with changes applied, see the full poem.


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