The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (The Authoritative Edition - Wisehouse Classics). Эдгар Аллан По

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СКАЧАТЬ Tamerlane and Other Poems. The title was changed for the 1829 collection Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems. The poem follows a dialogue between a dead speaker and a person visiting his grave. The spirit tells the person that those who one knows in life surround a person in death as well.

      Thy soul shall find itself alone

      ‘Mid dark thoughts of the grey tomb-stone;

      Not one, of all the crowd, to pry

      Into thine hour of secrecy.

      Be silent in that solitude,

      Which is not loneliness—for then

      The spirits of the dead, who stood

      In life before thee, are again

      In death around thee, and their will

      Shall overshadow thee; be still.

      The night, though clear, shall frown,

      And the stars shall not look down

      From their high thrones in the Heaven

      With light like hope to mortals given,

      But their red orbs, without beam,

      To thy weariness shall seem

      As a burning and a fever

      Which would cling to thee for ever.

      Now are thoughts thou shalt not banish,

      Now are visions ne’er to vanish;

      From thy spirit shall they pass

      No more, like dew-drop from the grass.

      The breeze, the breath of God, is still,

      And the mist upon the hill

      Shadowy, shadowy, yet unbroken,

      Is a symbol and a token.

      How it hangs upon the trees,

      A mystery of mysteries!

       R

Stanzas (1827)

      The title “Stanzas” was assigned to this untitled poem originally printed in Tamerlane and Other Poems in 1827. Another poem with the title “Stanzas” was published in the Graham’s Magazine in December of 1845 and signed “P.” It was attributed to Poe based on a copy owned by Frances Osgood, on which she had pencilled notes.

       How often we forget all time, when lone

       Admiring Nature’s universal throne;

       Her woods—her wilds—her mountains—the intense

      Reply of HERS to OUR intelligence!

      — BYRON, The Island.

       I

      In youth have I known one with whom the Earth

      In secret communing held—as he with it,

      In daylight, and in beauty from his birth:

      Whose fervid, flickering torch of life was lit

      From the sun and stars, whence he had drawn forth

      A passionate light—such for his spirit was fit—

      And yet that spirit knew not, in the hour

      Of its own fervor what had o’er it power.

       II

      Perhaps it may be that my mind is wrought

      To a fever by the moonbeam that hangs o’er,

      But I will half believe that wild light fraught

      With more of sovereignty than ancient lore

      Hath ever told—or is it of a thought

      The unembodied essence, and no more,

      That with a quickening spell doth o’er us pass

      As dew of the night-time o’er the summer grass?

       III

      Doth o’er us pass, when, as th’ expanding eye

      To the loved object—so the tear to the lid

      Will start, which lately slept in apathy?

      And yet it need not be—(that object) hid

      From us in life—but common—which doth lie

      Each hour before us—but then only, bid

      With a strange sound, as of a harp-string broken,

      To awake us—’Tis a symbol and a token

       IV

      Of what in other worlds shall be—and given

      In beauty by our God, to those alone

      Who otherwise would fall from life and Heaven

      Drawn by their heart’s passion, and that tone,

      That high tone of the spirit which hath striven,

      Tho’ not with Faith—with godliness—whose throne

      With desperate energy ‘t hath beaten down;

      Wearing its own deep feeling as a crown.

       R

Tamerlane (1827)

      Kind solace in a dying hour!

      Such, father, is not (now) my theme—

      I will not madly deem that power

      Of Earth may shrive me of the sin

      Unearthly pride hath revell’d in-

      I have no time to dote or dream:

      You call it hope—that fire of fire!

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