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THE LAKE —— TO ——
Edgar Allan Poe - 1809-1849

In spring of youth it was my lot

To haunt of the wide earth a spot
The which I could not love the less—
So lovely was the loneliness
Of a wild lake, with black rock bound, Born in 1809, Edgar Allan
And the tall pines that tower’d around. Poe had a profound impact
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But when the Night had thrown her pall an editor, poet, and critic.
Upon that spot, as upon all,
And the mystic wind went by More Edgar Allan Poe >
Murmuring in melody—
Then—ah then I would awake
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To the terror of the lone lake.
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A feeling not the jewelled mine
Could teach or bribe me to define—
Nor Love—although the Love were thine. About This Poem
From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Death was in that poisonous wave, in Five Volumes: The Raven
Edition (P.F. Collier, 1902)
And in its gulf a fitting grave
For him who thence could solace bring  
To his lone imagining—
 Whose solitary soul could make
An Eden of that dim lake.

1827.

This poem is in the public domain. 

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That gently, o'er a one another,

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