To -- / Poe, Edgar Allen

Author: Poe, Edgar Allen
Title: To --
Publisher: Eris Etext Project
Tag(s): heart; american literature
Contributor(s): Eric Lease Morgan (Infomotions, Inc.)
Versions: original; local mirror; HTML (this file); printable
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Rights: GNU General Public License
Size: 76 words (really short) Grade range: 15-18 (college) Readability score: 54 (average)
Identifier: poe-to-711
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                                      1830
                                     TO --
                               by Edgar Allan Poe

      The bowers whereat, in dreams, I see
        The wantonest singing birds,
      Are lips- and all thy melody
        Of lip-begotten words-

      Thine eyes, in Heaven of heart enshrined,
        Then desolately fall,
      O God! on my funereal mind
        Like starlight on a pall-

     Thy heart- thy heart!- I wake and sigh,
        And sleep to dream till day
      Of the truth that gold can never buy-
        Of the baubles that it may.

                   -THE END-
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