Text: Edgar Allan Poe, “Romance” (Text-05b), Broadway Journal, August 30, 1845, 2:119, col. 2


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[page 119. column 2, continued:]

Romance.

Romance, who loves to nod and sing,

With drowsy head and folded wing,

Among the green leaves as they shake

Far down within some shadowy lake,

To me a painted paroquet

Hath been — a most familiar bird —

Taught me my alphabet to say —

To lisp my very earliest word

While in the wild wood I did lie

A child — with a most knowing eye.

Of late, eternal Condor years

So shake the very Heavens on high

With tumult, as they thunder by,

I have no time for idle cares

Through gazing on the unquiet sky.

And when an hour with calmer wings

Its down upon my spirit flings —

That little time with lyre and rhyme

To while away — forbidden things!

My heart would feel to be a crime

Unless it trembled with the strings!


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Notes:

None.


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