Text: Edgar Allan Poe (ed. James H. Whitty), “From an Album,” The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911, p. 141


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[page 141:]

FROM AN ALBUM

ELIZABETH it is in vain you say

“Love not” — thou sayest it in so sweet a way:

In vain those words from thee or L. E. L.

Zantippe's talents had enforced so well:

Ah! if that language from thy heart arise,

Breathe it less gently forth — and veil thine eyes.

Endymion, recollect, when Luna tried

To cure his love — was cured of all beside —

His folly — pride — and passion — for he died.

 


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Notes:

None.

 

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[S:0 - JHW11, 1911] - Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - Works - From an Album (ed. J. H. Whitty, 1911)