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 "title": "For Annie",
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 "poet": "Edgar Allan Poe",
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 "book": "Poetry",
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  "year": 1849,
  "venue": "Flag of Our Union (28 April 1849)",
  "note": "Sent to the Flag before 23 March 1849. The Home Journal carries the poem on the same day, 28 April 1849, at Poe's request — he had written to N. P. Willis on 20 April complaining of the Flag's misprints. No copy of the Flag printing was located until 1910, so earlier editions printed Griswold's 1850 text.",
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    "text": "Thank Heaven! the crisis⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "The danger is past,",
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    "text": "And the lingering illness",
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    "text": "Is over at last⁠—",
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    "text": "And the fever called “Living”",
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    "text": "Is conquered at last.",
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    "text": "Sadly, I know,",
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   {
    "text": "I am shorn of my strength,",
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    "text": "And no muscle I move",
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   {
    "text": "As I lie at full length⁠—",
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    "text": "But no matter!⁠—I feel",
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    "text": "I am better at length.",
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    "text": "And I rest so composedly,",
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    "text": "Now in my bed,",
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    "text": "That any beholder",
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    "text": "Might fancy me dead⁠—",
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    "text": "Might start at beholding me,",
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    "text": "Thinking me dead.",
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    "text": "The moaning and groaning,",
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    "text": "The sighing and sobbing,",
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    "text": "Are quieted now,",
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    "text": "With that horrible throbbing",
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    "text": "At heart:⁠—ah, that horrible,",
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    "text": "Horrible throbbing!",
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    "text": "The sickness⁠—the nausea⁠—",
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    "text": "The pitiless pain⁠—",
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    "text": "Have ceased, with the fever",
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    "text": "That maddened my brain⁠—",
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    "text": "With the fever called “Living”",
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    "text": "That burned in my brain.",
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    "text": "And oh! of all tortures",
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    "text": "That torture the worst",
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    "text": "Has abated⁠—the terrible",
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    "text": "Torture of thirst,",
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    "text": "For the naphthaline river",
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    "text": "Of Passion accurst:⁠—",
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    "text": "I have drank of a water",
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    "text": "That quenches all thirst:⁠—",
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    "text": "Of a water that flows,",
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    "text": "With a lullaby sound,",
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    "text": "From a spring but a very few",
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    "text": "Feet under ground⁠—",
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    "text": "From a cavern not very far",
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    "text": "Down under ground.",
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    "text": "And ah! let it never",
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    "text": "Be foolishly said",
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    "text": "That my room it is gloomy",
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    "text": "And narrow my bed⁠—",
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    "text": "For man never slept",
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    "text": "In a different bed;",
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    "text": "And, to sleep, you must slumber",
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    "text": "In just such a bed.",
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    "text": "My tantalized spirit",
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    "text": "Here blandly reposes,",
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    "text": "Forgetting, or never",
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    "text": "Regretting its roses⁠—",
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    "text": "Its old agitations",
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    "text": "Of myrtles and roses:",
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    "text": "For now, while so quietly",
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    "text": "Lying, it fancies",
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    "text": "A holier odor",
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    "text": "About it, of pansies⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "A rosemary odor,",
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    "text": "Commingled with pansies⁠—",
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    "text": "With rue and the beautiful",
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    "text": "Puritan pansies.",
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    "text": "And so it lies happily,",
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   {
    "text": "Bathing in many",
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    "text": "A dream of the truth",
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    "text": "And the beauty of Annie⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Drowned in a bath",
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   {
    "text": "Of the tresses of Annie.",
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   {
    "text": "She tenderly kissed me,",
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   {
    "text": "She fondly caressed,",
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   {
    "text": "And then I fell gently",
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    "text": "To sleep on her breast⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "Deeply to sleep",
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   {
    "text": "From the heaven of her breast.",
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    "text": "When the light was extinguished,",
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   {
    "text": "She covered me warm,",
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   {
    "text": "And she prayed to the angels",
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   {
    "text": "To keep me from harm⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "To the queen of the angels",
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   {
    "text": "To shield me from harm.",
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    "text": "And I lie so composedly,",
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   {
    "text": "Now in my bed,",
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    "text": "(Knowing her love)",
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   {
    "text": "That you fancy me dead⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "And I rest so contentedly,",
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   {
    "text": "Now in my bed,",
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   {
    "text": "(With her love at my breast)",
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    "text": "That you fancy me dead⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "That you shudder to look at me,",
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    "text": "Thinking me dead.",
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    "text": "But my heart it is brighter",
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   {
    "text": "Than all of the many",
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   {
    "text": "Stars in the sky,",
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   {
    "text": "For it sparkles with Annie⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "It glows with the light",
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   {
    "text": "Of the love of my Annie⁠—",
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   {
    "text": "With the thought of the light",
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   {
    "text": "Of the eyes of my Annie.",
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