Text: Edgar Allan Poe (ed. E. C. Stedman and G. E. Woodberry), “To F——,” The Works of Edgar Allan PoeVol. X: Poems (1895), 10:78


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TO F——

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BELOVED! amid the earnest woes

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That crowd around my earthly path

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(Drear path, alas! where grows

Not even one lonely rose),

My soul at least a solace hath

In dreams of thee, and therein knows

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An Eden of bland repose.

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And thus thy memory is to me

Like some enchanted far-off isle

In some tumultuous sea —

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Some ocean throbbing far and free

With storms, but where meanwhile

Serenest skies continually

Just o’re that one bright island smile.

 


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Notes:

None.

 

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[S:0 - SW94, 1895] - Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - Works - To F---- (Stedman and Woodberry, 1895)