To One In Paradise / Poe, Edgar Allen

Author: Poe, Edgar Allen
Title: To One In Paradise
Publisher: Eris Etext Project
Tag(s): literature; allen; flowers; life; alas; light; paradise; love; edgar; sea; poe; american; american literature
Contributor(s): Eric Lease Morgan (Infomotions, Inc.)
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Rights: GNU General Public License
Size: 154 words (really short) Grade range: 5-7 (grade school) Readability score: 85 (very easy)
Identifier: poe-to-720
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                                      1834
                               TO ONE IN PARADISE
                               by Edgar Allan Poe

       Thou wast all that to me, love,
         For which my soul did pine-
       A green isle in the sea, love,
         A fountain and a shrine,
       All wreathed with fairy fruits and flowers,
         And all the flowers were mine.

       Ah, dream too bright to last!
         Ah, starry Hope! that didst arise
       But to be overcast!
         A voice from out the Future cries,
       "On! on!"- but o'er the Past
         (Dim gulf!) my spirit hovering lies
       Mute, motionless, aghast!

       For, alas! alas! me
         The light of Life is o'er!
         "No more- no more- no more-"
       (Such language holds the solemn sea
         To the sands upon the shore)
       Shall bloom the thunder-blasted tree
         Or the stricken eagle soar!

       And all my days are trances,
         And all my nightly dreams
       Are where thy grey eye glances,
         And where thy footstep gleams-
       In what ethereal dances,
         By what eternal streams.

                 -THE END-
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