Text: Edgar Allan Poe (ed. John H. Ingram), “To the River ----,” The Works of Edgar Allan PoeVol. III: Poems & Essays (1875), 3:84


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TO THE RIVER ——.

FAIR river! in thy bright, clear flow

Of crystal, wandering water,

Thou art an emblem of the glow

Of beauty — the unhidden heart —

The playful maziness of art

In old Alberto's daughter;

 

But when within thy wave she looks —

Which glistens then, and trembles —

Why, then, the prettiest of brooks

Her worshipper resembles;

For in his heart, as in thy stream,

Her image deeply lies —

His heart which trembles at the beam

Of her soul-searching eyes.


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