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 "id": "edgar-allan-poe/alone",
 "title": "Alone",
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 "poet": "Edgar Allan Poe",
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 "language": "en",
 "book": "Poetry",
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 "first_published": {
  "year": 1875,
  "venue": "Scribner's Monthly (September 1875)",
  "note": "Written about 1829 in the autograph album of Lucy Holmes, later Lucy Holmes Balderston, and never printed in Poe's lifetime. E. L. Didier published it as a facsimile with the title and a date added; the issue was in circulation by mid-August 1875, and reprints from it begin on 17 August. Those additions raised doubts about the poem's authenticity which are no longer current.",
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   "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An_Acrostic",
   "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Elizabeth_(Poe)",
   "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Serenade_(Poe)",
   "https://archive.org/details/worksedgarallan00unkngoog",
   "https://archive.org/details/cu31924019520810",
   "https://archive.org/details/jstor-2915307"
  ],
  "rights": "public domain (SE dedication; underlying text pre-1931)"
 },
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  "last_checked": "2026-08-12"
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   {
    "text": "From childhood’s hour I have not been",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As others were⁠—I have not seen",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As others saw⁠—I could not bring",
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   },
   {
    "text": "My passions from a common spring⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "From the same source I have not taken",
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   },
   {
    "text": "My sorrow⁠—I could not awaken",
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   },
   {
    "text": "My heart to joy at the same tone⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And all I loved⁠—I loved alone⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Thou⁠—in my childhood⁠—in the dawn",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of a most stormy life⁠—was drawn",
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   {
    "text": "From every depth of good and ill",
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   },
   {
    "text": "The mystery which binds me still⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "From the torrent, or the fountain⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "From the red cliff of the mountain⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "From the sun that round me roll’d",
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   },
   {
    "text": "In its autumn tint of gold⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "From the lightning in the sky",
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   },
   {
    "text": "As it passed me flying by⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "From the thunder, and the storm⁠—",
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   },
   {
    "text": "And the cloud that took the form",
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   },
   {
    "text": "(When the rest of Heaven was blue)",
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   },
   {
    "text": "Of a demon in my view.",
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