First linesEdgar Allan Poe

  1. A dark unfathomed tide Imitation
  2. Ah, broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever! Lenore
  3. At midnight in the month of June, The Sleeper
  4. At morn⁠—at noon⁠—at twilight dim⁠— Hymn
  5. Because I feel that, in the Heavens above, To My Mother
  6. Beloved! amid the earnest woes To F⁠⸺⁠
  7. By a route obscure and lonely, Dreamland
  8. Dim vales⁠—and shadowy floods⁠— Fairyland
  9. Elizabeth it is in vain you say An Acrostic
  10. Elizabeth⁠—it surely is most fit Elizabeth
  11. Fair isle, that from the fairest of all flowers, To Zante
  12. Fair river! in thy bright, clear flow To the River ⸻
  13. For her this rhyme is penned, whose luminous eyes, A Valentine
  14. From childhood’s hour I have not been Alone
  15. Gayly bedight, Eldorado
  16. Hear the sledges with the bells⁠— The Bells
  17. Helen, thy beauty is to me To Helen
  18. How shall the burial rite be read? A Paean
  19. I dwelt alone Eulalie
  20. I heed not that my earthly lot To ⸻
  21. I saw thee on thy bridal day⁠— Song
  22. I saw thee once⁠—once only⁠—years ago: To Helen
  23. In Heaven a spirit doth dwell Israfel
  24. In spring of youth it was my lot The Lake
  25. In the greenest of our valleys The Haunted Palace
  26. In visions of the dark night A Dream
  27. In youth I have known one with whom the Earth Stanzas
  28. It was many and many a year ago, Annabel Lee
  29. Kind solace in a dying hour! Tamerlane
  30. Lo! ’tis a gala night The Conqueror Worm
  31. Lo! Death has reared himself a throne The City in the Sea
  32. Not long ago, the writer of these lines, To Marie Louise
  33. O! nothing earthly save the ray Al Aaraaf
  34. Of all who hail thy presence as the morning⁠— To Marie Louise (Shew)
  35. Oh! that my young life were a lasting dream! Dreams
  36. Once it smiled a silent dell The Valley of Unrest
  37. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, The Raven
  38. Romance, who loves to nod and sing, Romance
  39. Science! true daughter of Old Time thou art! Sonnet⁠—To Science
  40. “Seldom we find,” says Solomon Don Dunce, An Enigma
  41. So sweet the hour⁠—so calm the time, Serenade
  42. Take this kiss upon the brow! A Dream Within a Dream
  43. Thank Heaven! the crisis⁠— For Annie
  44. The bowers whereat, in dreams, I see To ⸻
  45. The happiest day⁠—the happiest hour “The Happiest Day”
  46. The ring is on my hand, The Bridal Ballad
  47. The skies they were ashen and sober; Ulalume
  48. There are some qualities⁠—some incorporate things, Silence
  49. Thou wast all that to me, love, To One in Paradise
  50. Thou wouldst be loved?⁠—then let thy heart To Frances S. Osgood
  51. Thy soul shall find itself alone Spirits of the Dead
  52. ’Twas noontide of summer, Evening Star
  53. Type of the antique Rome! Rich reliquary The Coliseum

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