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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ANNABEL LEE, by STANLEY HUNTLEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twas more than a million years ago
Last Line: But I should have had my annabel lee.
Variant Title(s): Annnabel Lee
Subject(s): Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)


ANNABEL LEE DOES A POST-MORTEM ON THE HAZARDS OF ROMANCE WITH A METRIC, by JOYCE LA MERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I told him my name was annabel lee
Last Line: But simply a case of acute euphonia
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Women's Rights


ANNABEL LEECH (AFTER POE), by DAVID SHEVIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was many and many a year ago
Subject(s): Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)


AT THE GRAVE OF POE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Spring's glow and glamour over baltimore
Subject(s): Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)


BEAUTIFUL ORIGINAL POEM; TO EDGAR ALLAN POE, by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, thou grim and ancient raven
Last Line: Shall our lofty eyrie share!
Subject(s): Holidays; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Valentine's Day


DEBORAH LEE, by WILLIAM HENRY BURLEIGH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis a dozen or so of years ago
Last Line: Before they wanted me.
Subject(s): Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)


DIVERSIONS OF THE RE-ECHO CLUB, by CAROLYN WELLS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hence, vain, deluding cows
Last Line: Than to be one, anyhow.
Subject(s): Clubs (associations); Cows; Gray, Thomas (1716-1771); Keats, John (1795-1821); Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936); Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882); Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Poetry & Poets; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882)


E.A.P.; ON THE FLY-LEAF OF WHITTY'S 'POE', by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the proudest of the nations
Last Line: And no poets there are born.
Subject(s): Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Poetry & Poets


EDGAR ALLAN POE, by TIMOTHY THOMAS FORTUNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I know not why, but it is true - it may
Last Line: Singing, back to his mother element.
Subject(s): Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)


EDGAR ALLAN POE, by DUBOSE HEYWARD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once in the starlight
Last Line: Burning discontent.
Subject(s): Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)


EDGAR ALLAN POE, by CLIFFORD LANIER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dreaming along the haunted shore of time
Subject(s): Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)


EDGAR POE, by PETER GIZZI    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)


EXCLUDED, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Into the charnel hall of fame
Last Line: Of edgar allan poe.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)


FAREWELL TO EARTH, by ELIZABETH DOTEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Farewell! Farewell!
Last Line: Until then—farewell! Farewell!
Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie
Subject(s): Angels; Death; Farewell; Heaven; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Dead, The; Parting; Paradise


FOR THE POE CENTENARY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: His peck-ability to show
Last Line: He'd make them bite the dust before him.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)


HAUNTING POE'S BALTIMORE, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Baltimore bones groan maliciously under sidewalk
Subject(s): Baltimore, Maryland; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)


HAUNTING POE'S BALTIMORE, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Baltimore bones groan maliciously under sidewalk
Last Line: I havde writ this ancient riddle in poe's house in baltimore
Subject(s): Baltimore, Maryland; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)


HIWAY POESY L.A. TO WICHITA, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up up and away! / we're off, thru america
Subject(s): Baltimore, Maryland; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); America


IN BROADWAY, by VANCE THOMPSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I walk in broadway to and fro
Last Line: I make the sign of the cross.
Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)


ISRAFEL, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Picture the grave in his diabolical dream
Subject(s): Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Poetry & Poets


ISRAFEL, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Picture the grave in his diabolical dream
Subject(s): Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Poetry And Poets


JEREMIAD, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After a night of opium and alcohol, edgar poe
Last Line: As they sometimes will in baltimore.
Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; Food & Eating; Hallucinations & Illusions; Parks; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin


MY LOVE, MY LOVE, MY LOVE, WHY HAVE YOU LEFT ME ALONE?, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Midmost my twenty-ninth eternity
Subject(s): Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)


POE, by MINA LOY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A lyric elixir of death / embalms
Alternate Author Name(s): Cravan, Arthur, Mrs.; Lowy, Mina Gertrude; Haweis, Stephen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)


POE, by MINA LOY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A lyric elixir of death %embalms
Last Line: Where frozen nightingales in ilix aisles %sing burial rites
Alternate Author Name(s): Cravan, Arthur, Mrs.; Lowy, Mina Gertrude; Haweis, Stephen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)


POE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sad spirit, swathed in brief mortality
Last Line: And blast the bliss of heaven forevermore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)


POE - CHOPIN, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O'er each the soul of beauty flung
Last Line: Whose utterance is death.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Chopin, Frederic Francois (1810-1849); Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)


POE IN THE BRONX, by RICHARD FOERSTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here the dream tgurned gothic
Last Line: And begin its welcome, grim advance
Subject(s): Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Poetry And Poets


POE'S COTTAGE AT FORDHAM, by JOHN HENRY BONER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lived the soul enchanted
Last Line: Have cenotaphed his fame.
Subject(s): Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Writing & Writers


POE'S COTTAGE AT FORDHAM, by WALTER MALONE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here stands the little antiquated house
Last Line: And israfel sings poe's supreme renown.
Subject(s): Fordham, New York City; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)


POE'S COTTAGE AT FORDHAM, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, where to pinching penury the gloom
Last Line: To consecrate a temple and a tomb.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)


POE'S CRITICS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A certain tyrant to disgrace
Last Line: How lofty grows the monument.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Criticism & Critics; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)


POE'S MOTHER, by BEATRICE WITTE RAVENEL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lying half-awake %I watch the sky grow saffron
Subject(s): Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)


POE'S PURGATORY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All others rest; but I
Last Line: And shrines me there.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)


POE'S RAVEN, by JOSEPH BERT SMILEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: How distinctly I remember, late one evening last, november
Last Line: Very likely that same evening he'd been on a bust before. %and got sober--nevermore
Subject(s): Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)


POETS OF HELL, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Poe, a very sick man in baltimore
Last Line: And spits into the constellated skies
Subject(s): Baudelaire, Charles (1821-1867); French Poetry - Symbolism; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Poetry And Poets; Rimbaud, Arthur (1854-1891)


SAMUEL BROWN, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was many and many a year ago
Subject(s): Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)


SAMUEL BROWN, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was many and many a year ago
Last Line: To our house in the street down town
Subject(s): Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)


SONNETS FROM SERIES RELATING TO EDGAR ALLAN POE: 2, by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oft since thine earthly eyes have closed on mine
Last Line: In death the deathless power and divine life of love.
Subject(s): Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)


SONNETS FROM SERIES RELATING TO EDGAR ALLEN POE: 1, by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When first I looked into thy glorious eyes
Last Line: Heaven deepening within heaven, serene and still.
Subject(s): Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)


SONNETS FROM SERIES RELATING TO EDGAR ALLEN POE: 3, by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On our lone pathway bloomed no earthly hopes
Last Line: Sleep on my heart till heaven the flower unfold.
Subject(s): Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)


SONNETS FROM SERIES RELATING TO EDGAR ALLEN POE: 4, by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If thy sad heart, pining for human love
Last Line: Till god's great love, on both, one hope, one heaven bestow.
Subject(s): Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)


STREETS OF BALTIMORE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "woman weak and woman mortal, through the spirit's open portal"
Last Line: "fled, and left my shattered dwelling to the dust of baltimore"
Subject(s): "baltimore, Maryland;history;poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849);" Historians


THE AMATEUR FLUTE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hear the fluter with his flute
Last Line: "and the tootle, tootle, tooting of its toot"
Subject(s): "flutes;poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849);


THE BRIDGE: 7. THE TUNNEL, by HAROLD HART CRANE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Performances, assortments, resumes
Last Line: Gatherest --
Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart
Subject(s): Class Struggle; Imagination; New York City; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Subways; Vision; Fancy; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple


THE POETS AT TEA: 7. POE, WHO GOT EXCITED OVER IT, by BARRY PAIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here's a mellow cup of tea, golden tea!
Last Line: Tea to the n -- th.
Subject(s): Food & Eating; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Tea


THE POETS OF HELL, by KARL SHAPIRO    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Poe, a very sick man in baltimore
Subject(s): Baudelaire, Charles (1821-1867); French Poetry - Symbolism; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Poetry & Poets; Rimbaud, Arthur (1854-1891)


THE PROMISSORY NOTE, by BAYARD TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the lonesome latter years
Last Line: "where the tempest whispers, ""pay him!"" and I answer, ""nevermore!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard
Subject(s): Debt; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)


THE TOMB OF EDGAR POE, by STEPHANE MALLARME    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Just as eternity transforms him at last unto himself
Last Line: To the foul flights of straggling blasphemy in the future.
Subject(s): Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)


THE WILLOWS, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The skies they were ashen and sober
Last Line: And this nightingale, kept by one shear.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret
Subject(s): Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Willow Trees


THE WIZARD IN THE STREET, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who will now praise the wizard in the street
Last Line: Too slowly came the good samaritan.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)


TIME TRAVELER'S POTLATCH, by PHILIP LAMANTIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: For simon rodia: the sudden appearance, at once, of
Last Line: Mutation through a circle of blazing rum
Subject(s): Chaplin, Charlie (1889-1977); Collins, William (1721-1759); Lugosi, Bela (1882-1956); Parker, Charlie ("bird") (1920-1955); Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)


TO A DEAD POET, by HERBERT TRENCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If the meteor mind, swift-ranger
Last Line: Wider than the wave ethereal, murmurs alone. . . .
Subject(s): Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)


TO EDGAR ALLAN POE, by HOWARD ELSMERE FULLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Thou art a thing of death
Last Line: Pay thee homage at thy shrine.
Subject(s): Grief; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Poetry & Poets; Sorrow; Sadness


TO EDGAR ALLAN POE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dead fifty years? Not so
Last Line: And withered them in flame.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)


TO EDGAR, FROM HELEN, by MARY HOLTBY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Edgar, your verses are to me
Last Line: Let both be banned!
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Women's Rights


TO MR. POE, FROM HIS BEAUTIFUL ANNABEL LEE, by GRAY DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: My dear mr. Poe, you silly twit, to sleep so by the sea!
Last Line: Nut I guess I was always a roll in the sepulchre %signed, beautiful annabel lee
Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Women's Rights


TOMB OF EDGAR ALLAN POE, by STEPHANE MALLARME    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Appearing such as eternity has transformed him into real self, the
Last Line: Black flights of blasphemy scattered in the future
Subject(s): Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)


TOMB OF EDGAR POE, by STEPHANE MALLARME    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As to himself at last eternity changes him
Last Line: To the dark flights of blasphemy hurled to the future
Subject(s): Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)


TOMB OF EDGAR POE (VERSION A), by STEPHANE MALLARME    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Even as eternity brings him at last to himself
Last Line: To the black flights that blasphemy may spread thereafter
Subject(s): Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)