Text: Edgar Allan Poe, “For Annie” (Comparative Text)


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Texts Represented:

  • 1849-01 - “Willis” MS (April 20, 1849) (incomplete)
  • 1849-02 - Home Journal (April 28, 1849)

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Title: For Annie.

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Byline: by Edgar A. Poe.

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Line-01-001 {{1849-01: Thank //1849-02: THANK }} Heaven! — the crisis —

Line-01-002 [[indent]] The danger is past,

Line-01-003 And the lingering illness

Line-01-004 [[indent]] Is over at last —

Line-01-005 And the fever called “Living”

Line-01-006 [[indent]] Is conquered at last.

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Line-01-007 Sadly, I know,

Line-01-008 [[indent]] I am shorn of my strength,

Line-01-009 And no muscle I move

Line-01-010 [[indent]] As I lie at full length —

Line-01-011 But no matter! — I feel

Line-01-012 [[indent]] I am better at length.

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Line-01-013 And I rest so composedly,

Line-01-014 [[indent]] Now, in my bed,

Line-01-015 That any beholder

Line-01-016 [[indent]] Might fancy me dead —

Line-01-017 Might start at beholding me,

Line-01-018 [[indent]] Thinking me dead.

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Line-01-019 The moaning and groaning,

Line-01-020 [[indent]] The sighing and sobbing {{1849-01: , //1849-02: [[,]] }}

Line-01-021 Are quieted now,

Line-01-022 [[indent]] With that horrible throbbing

Line-01-023 At heart: — ah {{1849-01: , }} that horrible {{1849-01: [[,]] //1849-02: , }}

Line-01-024 [[indent]] Horrible throbbing!

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Line-01-025 The sickness — the nausea —

Line-01-026 [[indent]] The pitiless pain —

Line-01-027 Have ceased, with the fever

Line-01-028 [[indent]] That maddened my brain —

Line-01-029 With the fever called “Living”

Line-01-030 [[indent]] That burned in my brain.

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Line-01-031 And oh! of all tortures

Line-01-032 [[indent]] That torture the worst

Line-01-033 Has abated — the terrible

Line-01-034 [[indent]] Torture of thirst

Line-01-035 For the napthaline rivers

Line-01-036 [[indent]] Of Passion accurst: —

Line-01-037 I have drank of a water

Line-01-038 [[indent]] That quenches all thirst: —

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Line-01-039 Of a water that flows,

Line-01-040 [[indent]] With a lullaby sound,

Line-01-041 From a spring but a very few

Line-01-042 [[indent]] Feet under ground —

Line-01-043 From a cavern not very far

Line-01-044 [[indent]] Down under ground.

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Line-01-045 And ah! let it never

Line-01-046 [[indent]] Be foolishly said

Line-01-047 That my room it is gloomy

Line-01-048 [[indent]] And narrow my bed;

Line-01-049 For man never slept

Line-01-050 [[indent]] In a different bed —

Line-01-051 And, to sleep, you must slumber

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[[... the remaining stanzas of the manuscript are lost, and a comparison, consequently, impossible]]

 


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Notes:

For an explanation of the formatting used in this Comparative Text, see editorial policies and methods. This format is very much an experiment, particularly for poetry.

Because these changes reflect two different presentations, pagination has been omitted from the current text.

 

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