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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: POE, Matches Found: 103 Poe, Christine W. 1 poems available by this author ENOUGH First Line: Metal and mattresses, %potatoes and paper Last Line: Room to think in the full room %of enough Poe, Edgar Allan Poet's Biography 99 poems available by this author A DREAM Poem Text First Line: In visions of the dark night Last Line: In truth's day-star? [1927-1845] Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM Poem Text First Line: Take this kiss upon the brow! Last Line: But a dream within a dream? Variant Title(s): To - Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM, OR IMITATION Poem Text First Line: A dark unfathom'd tide Last Line: With a thought I then did cherish. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares A PAEAN Poem Text First Line: How shall the burial rite be read? Last Line: With a paean of old days. Variant Title(s): Lenore (2) A VALENTINE TO -- Poem Text First Line: For her these lines are penned, whose luminous eyes Last Line: And now I leave these riddles to their seer. Subject(s): Holidays; Riddles; Valentine's Day AL AARAAF Poem Text First Line: O! Nothing earthly save the ray Last Line: Who hear not for the beating of their hearts. ALONE Poem Text First Line: From childhood's hour I have not been Last Line: Of a demon in my view -- Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness AN ACROSTIC Poem Text First Line: Elizabeth it is in vain you say Last Line: His folly -- pride -- and passion -- for he died. AN ENIGMA Poem Text First Line: Seldom we find,' says solomaon don dunce Last Line: Of the dear names that lie concealed within't. ANNABEL LEE Poem Text Recitation First Line: It was many and many a year ago, / in the kingdom of the sea Last Line: In her tomb by the side of the sea. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness BELLS - A SONG First Line: The bells! - hear the bells! Last Line: Of the bells, bells, bells - %of the bells Subject(s): Bells BELOVED PHYSICIAN (FRAGMENTS) First Line: The pulse beats ten and intermits Last Line: The faithful heart yields no repose Subject(s): Physicians BRIDAL BALLAD Poem Text First Line: The ring is on my hand Last Line: May not be happy now. Subject(s): Marriage; Regret; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CATHOLIC HYMN Poem Text First Line: At morn - at noon - at twilight dim Last Line: With sweet hopes of thee and thine! Subject(s): Catholics; Roman Catholics; Catholicism DEEP IN EARTH Poem Text First Line: Deep in earth my love is lying Last Line: And I must weep alone. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement DREAMLAND Poem Text First Line: By a route obscure and lonely Last Line: From this ultimate dim thule. Variant Title(s): Dream-land DREAMS Poem Text First Line: Oh! That my young life were a lasting dream! Last Line: Than young hope in his sunniest hour hath known. Subject(s): Dreams; Nightmares ELDORADO Poem Text Recitation First Line: Gaily bedight / a gallant knight Last Line: If you seek for eldorado!' Subject(s): Heaven; Labor & Laborers; Old Age; Paradise; Work; Workers ELIZABETH Poem Text First Line: Elizabeth - it surely is most fit Last Line: "always write first things uppermost in the heart." ENIGMA Poem Text First Line: The noblest name in allegory's page Last Line: Which gathers all their glories in its own. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) EPIGRAM FOR WALL STREET Poem Text First Line: I'll tell you a plan for gaining wealth Last Line: Tis as plab as the light of the day that you double it! Subject(s): Money EULALIE; A SONG Poem Text Recitation First Line: I dwelt alone / in a world of moan Last Line: While ever to her young eulalie upturns her violet eye. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love EVENING STAR Poem Text First Line: Twas noontide of summer Last Line: Than that colder, lowly light. Subject(s): Evening Star FAIRYLAND (1) Poem Text First Line: Dim vales - and shadowy floods Last Line: Upon their quivering wings. Variant Title(s): Fairyland Subject(s): Fairies; Elves FAIRYLAND (2) Poem Text First Line: Sit down beside me, isabel Last Line: Alas! Over the sea! FANNY Poem Text First Line: The dying swan by northern lakes Last Line: By witching eyes which looked disdain. Subject(s): Birds; Swans FOR ANNIE Poem Text First Line: Thank heaven! The crisis - / the danger is past Last Line: Of the eyes of my annie. Variant Title(s): Convalescence Subject(s): Death; Love; Dead, The I HAVE A YOUNG SISTER Last Line: She longs not in her mind IMPROMPTU. TO KATE CAROL Poem Text First Line: When from your gems of thought I turn Last Line: The bright I-dea, or bright dear-eye. Subject(s): Puns INTRODUCTION Poem Text First Line: Romance, who loves to nod and sing Last Line: Connivingly my dreaming-book. IRENE Poem Text First Line: Tis now (so sings the soaring moon) Last Line: Of her old family funerals. ISRAFEL Poem Text First Line: In heaven a spirit doth dwell Last Line: From my lyre within the sky. LENORE (1) Poem Text First Line: Ah, broken is the golden bowl! The spirit flown forever! Last Line: "but waft the angel on her flight with a paean of old days!" LENORE (3) Poem Text First Line: Ah, broken is the golden bowl! - the spirit flown forever! Last Line: "but waft the angel on her flight with a paean of old days!" LINES AFTER ELIZABETH BARRETT Poem Text First Line: Hear the far generations -- how they crash Last Line: In the visionary hills! Subject(s): Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861) LINES ON ALE Poem Text First Line: Fill with mingled cream and amber Last Line: I am drinking ale today. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine LINES ON JOE LOCKE Poem Text First Line: As for locke, he is all in my eye Last Line: "but the latter's well known ""to report." Subject(s): Locke, Joseph Lorenzo (1808-1864); Soldiers MAY QUEEN ODE; FRAGMENT Poem Text First Line: Fairies guard the queen of may Last Line: All beneath a smiling sky. Subject(s): May (month) MYSTERIOUS STAR! (A NEW INTRODUCTIOIN TO 'AL AARAAF') Poem Text First Line: Mysterious star! Last Line: Sorrow is not melancholy OH, TEMPORA! OH, MORES! Poem Text First Line: Oh times! Oh manners! It is my opinion Last Line: I close the portrait with the name of pitts. PECULIAR ACROSTIC - A VALENTINE Poem Text First Line: For her this rhyme is penned, whose luminous eyes Last Line: You will not read the riddle, though you do the best you can do. Variant Title(s): A Valentine Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day POLITAN; A TRAGEDY First Line: Oh! Is that you benito (hiccup) are they gone? Last Line: Farewell castiglione and farewell %my hope in heaven! ROMANCE Poem Text First Line: Romance, who loves to nod and sing Last Line: Unless it trembled with the strings. Subject(s): Nature SERENADE Poem Text First Line: So sweet the hour - so calm the time Last Line: In every deed shall mingle, love. SHADOW-A PARABLE First Line: Ye who read are still among the living; but I who write shall have Last Line: Familiar accents of many thousand departed friends SHEATH AND KNIFE First Line: One king's daughter said to anither Last Line: And we'll neer gae down to the brume nae mair SONNET TO MY MOTHER First Line: Because the angels in the heavens above Last Line: Was dearer to my soul than its soul-life Subject(s): Mothers-in-law SONNET: SILENCE Poem Text First Line: There are some qualities - some incorporate things Last Line: No foot of man,) commend thyself to god! SPIRITS OF THE DEAD Poem Text First Line: Thy soul shall find itself alone Last Line: A mystery of mysteries! -- Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards SPIRITUAL SONG Poem Text First Line: Hark, echo! - hark, echo! Last Line: Of archangels, in happiness wrapt. STANZAS Poem Text First Line: In youth have I known one with whom the earth Last Line: Wearing its own deep feeling as a crown. Subject(s): Nature; Youth STANZAS (TO F.S.O.) Poem Text First Line: Lady! I would that verse of mine Last Line: Bright with all hopes that heaven can give. Subject(s): Osgood, Frances Sargent (1811-1850) TAMERLANE (1) First Line: I have sent for thee, holy friar Last Line: A kingdom for a broken-heart Subject(s): Love; Tamerlane (1336-1404) TAMERLANE (2) Subject(s): Tamerlane (1336-1404) TAMERLANE (3) First Line: Kind solace in a dying hour! Last Line: Why in the battle did not I? Subject(s): Tamerlane (1336-1404) TAMERLANE (4) Poem Text First Line: Kind solace in a dying hour! Last Line: In the tangles of love's very hair? Subject(s): Tamerlane (1336-1404); Timure (1336-144); Tamberlaine (1336-144) THE BELLS Poem Text Recitation First Line: Hear the sledges with the bells Last Line: To the moaning and the groaning of the bells. Subject(s): Bells; Music & Musicians THE CITY IN THE SEA Poem Text First Line: Lo! Death has reared himself a throne Last Line: Shall do it reverence. Subject(s): Cities; Death; Sea; Urban Life; Dead, The; Ocean THE COLISEUM Poem Text Recitation First Line: Type of the antique rome! Rich reliquary Last Line: "clothing us in a robe of more than glory." Subject(s): Coliseum, Rome THE CONQUEROR WORM Poem Text First Line: Lo! 'tis a gala night Last Line: And its hero, the conqueror worm. THE DIVINE RIGHT OF KINGS Poem Text First Line: The only king by right divine Last Line: The king -- my king -- can do no wrong. Subject(s): Puns THE DOOMED CITY Poem Text First Line: Lo! Death hath rear'd himself a throne Last Line: Shall give his undivided time. Subject(s): Cities; Death; Sea; Urban Life; Dead, The; Ocean THE HAPPIEST DAY, THE HAPPIEST HOUR THE HAUNTED PALACE Poem Text Recitation First Line: In the greenest of our valleys / by good angels tenanted Last Line: And laugh -- but smile no more. Subject(s): Castles; Ghosts; Grief; Haunted Houses; Insanity; Mysticism; Supernatural; Sorrow; Sadness; Madness; Mental Illness THE LAKE (VERSION 1) Poem Text First Line: In youth's spring it was my lot Last Line: An eden of that dim lake. Subject(s): Lakes; Youth; Pools; Ponds THE LAKE (VERSION 2) Poem Text First Line: In spring of youth it was my lot Last Line: An eden of that dim lake. Subject(s): Lakes; Youth; Pools; Ponds THE RAVEN Poem Text Recitation First Line: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary Last Line: Shall be lifted -- nevermore! Subject(s): Birds; Death; Love - Loss Of; Mothers; Mysticism; Omens; Ravens; Supernatural; Dead, The THE SLEEPER Poem Text Recitation First Line: At midnight, in the month of june Last Line: It was the dead who groaned within! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE VALLEY OF UNREST (1) Poem Text First Line: Far away - far away Last Line: "over the hills and far away." Variant Title(s): The Valley Nis Subject(s): Imagination; Landscape; Fancy THE VALLEY OF UNREST (2) Poem Text First Line: Once it smiled a silent dell Last Line: Perennial tears descend in gems. Subject(s): Imagination; Landscape; Fancy TO - (1) Poem Text First Line: Not long ago, the writer of these lines Last Line: To where the prospect terminates -- thee only. Subject(s): Holidays; Valentine's Day TO - (2) Poem Text First Line: Should my early life seem Last Line: Endure! -- no -- no -- defy. Variant Title(s): A Dream Within A Dream, Or To - Subject(s): Youth TO - (3) Poem Text First Line: I saw thee on thy bridal day Last Line: The world all love before thee. Variant Title(s): Song Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO - (4) Poem Text First Line: I heed not that my earthly lot Last Line: Who am a passer by. TO - (5) Poem Text First Line: The bowers whereat, in dreams, I see Last Line: Of the baubles that it may. Variant Title(s): To -- Subject(s): Love - Materialism TO - (6) Poem Text First Line: Sleep on, sleep on, another hour Last Line: Must wake to weep. TO - (7) Poem Text First Line: I would not lord it o'er thy heart Last Line: And friendship to be second best. Subject(s): Friendship TO ELIZABETH First Line: Would'st thou be loved? Then let thy heart Last Line: And love - a duty TO F - (MRS. FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD) Poem Text First Line: Beloved! Amid the earnest woes Last Line: Just o'er that one bright island smile. Subject(s): Osgood, Frances Sargent (1811-1850); Poetry & Poets TO F---S S. O---D Poem Text First Line: Thou wouldst be loved? - then let thy heart Last Line: And love -- a simple duty. Variant Title(s): A Simple Duty Subject(s): Osgood, Frances Sargent (1811-1850) TO HELEN (1) Poem Text Recitation First Line: Helen, thy beauty is to me Last Line: Are holy land! Variant Title(s): To Helen Subject(s): Admiration; Beauty; Helen Of Troy; Mythology - Classical TO HELEN (2) Poem Text First Line: I saw thee once -- once only -- years ago Last Line: Venuses, unextinguished by the sun! Subject(s): Love; Whitman, Sara Helen (1803-1878) TO HELEN (3) First Line: Like those nicaean barks of yore Subject(s): Love TO ISAAC LEA Poem Text First Line: It was my choice or chance to curse Last Line: And soul and body worship it. TO M - Poem Text First Line: O! I care not that my earthly lot Last Line: I cannot be, lady, alone. Subject(s): Love TO M.L.S. Poem Text First Line: Of all who hail thy presence as the morning Last Line: His spirit is communing with an angel's. Subject(s): Kindness; Shew, Marie Louise TO MARGARET Poem Text First Line: Who hath seduced thee to this foul revolt Last Line: To write is human -- not to write divine. Subject(s): Writing & Writers TO MARIE LOUISE First Line: Not long ago, the writer of these lines Last Line: To where the prospect terminates - thee only Subject(s): Holidays; Shew, Marie Louise; Valentine's Day TO MISS LOUISE OLIVIA HUNTER Poem Text First Line: Though I turn, I fly not Last Line: And he sinks -- like me. TO MY MOTHER Poem Text First Line: Because I feel that, in the heavens above Last Line: Was dearer to my soul than its soul-life. Subject(s): Mothers-in-law TO OCTAVIA First Line: When wit, and wine, and friends have met Last Line: Will make it break for thee! TO ONE IN PARADISE Poem Text First Line: Thou wast all that to me, love Last Line: By what eternal streams. Subject(s): Love; Love - Nature Of TO SCIENCE, SELS. First Line: Vulture, whose wings are dull realities TO SCIENCE; SONNET Poem Text First Line: Science! True daughter of old time thou art! Last Line: The summer dream beneath the tamarind tree? Variant Title(s): Sonnet - To Science;to Science Subject(s): Hate; Mythology; Social Protest TO THE RIVER Poem Text Recitation First Line: Fair river! In thy bright, clear flow Last Line: Of her soul-searching eyes. Subject(s): Po River, Italy TO ZANTE Poem Text First Line: Fair isle, that from the fairest of all flowers Last Line: "isola d'oro! Fior di levante!" Variant Title(s): Sonnet To Zante Subject(s): Zacynthus; Zante ULALUME Poem Text Recitation First Line: The skies they were ashen and sober Last Line: This ghoul-haunted woodland of weir Variant Title(s): Ulalume - A Ballad;ulalume - A Ballad (2) Subject(s): Auber, Daniel Francois (1782-1871); Death; Halloween; Landscape; Love - Loss Of; Mysticism; October; Soul; Supernatural; Weir, Robert Walter (1803-1889); Dead, The VALLEY NIS (B) First Line: Now each visiter shall confess Last Line: Eternal dews come down in gems! VISIT OF THE DEAD Poem Text First Line: Thy soul shall find itself alone Last Line: Secrecy in thee. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graveyards Poe, Kathryn 1 poems available by this author NOW IS THE TIME FOR FLOWERS Poe, Marion Hooker 1 poems available by this author SONG OF PEACE Poem Text First Line: Thou art beautiful, o peace! Last Line: Let us love,—love on. Subject(s): Peace Poe, Pat 1 poems available by this author I BUILD THREE FIRES Poem Text First Line: Build me a fire, lover Last Line: And leave me alone. Subject(s): Fire |
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