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The Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe, With a Prefatory Notice, by J. Skipsey
The Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe With a Prefatory Notice by J Skipsey Author:Edgar Allan Poe General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1885 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: SILENCE. THERE are some qualities -- some incorporate things, That have a double life, which thus is made A type of that twin entity which springs From matter and light, evinc'd in solid and shade. There is a two-fold Silence -- sea and shore -- Body and soul. One dwells in lonely places, Newly with grass o'ergrown ; some solemn graces, Some human memories and tearful lore, Render him terrorless : his name's " No More." He is the corporate Silence : dread him not! No power hath he of evil in himself; But should some urgent fate (untimely lot!) Bring thee to meet his shadow (nameless elf, That haunteth the lone regions where hath trod No foot of man), commend thyself to God ! TO ZANTE. FAIR isle, that from the fairest of all flowers, Thy gentlest of all gentle names dost take ! How many memories of what radiant hours At sight of thee and thine at once awake ! How many scenes of what departed bliss ! How many thoughts of what entombed hopes ! How many visions of a maiden that is No more -- no more upon thy verdant slopes ! A'f more ! alas, that magical sad sound Transforming all ! Thy charms shall please no more, Thy memory no more ! Accursed ground ! Henceforth I hold thy flower-enamelled shore, O hyacinthine isle ! O purple Zante ! " I sola d'oro ! Fior di Levante !" TO F S S. O D. THOU wouldst be loved ? -- then let thy heart From its present pathway part not! Being everything which now thou art, Be nothing which thou art not. So with the world thy gentle ways, Thy grace, thy more than beauty, Shall be an endless theme of praise, And love -- a simp...« less