Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow:
You are not wrong who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
I stand amid the roar
Of a...
It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.
I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea:
But we loved with a love that was more than love -
I and my Annabel Lee;...
So sweet the hour, so calm the time,
I feel it more than half a crime,
When Nature sleeps and stars are mute,
To mar the silence ev'n with lute.
At rest on ocean's brilliant dyes
An image of Elysium lies:
Seven Pleiades entranced in Heaven,
Form in the deep another seven:
Endymion nodding from above
Sees in the sea a second love.
Within the...
I saw thee once - once only - years ago:
I must not say how many - but not many.
It was a July midnight; and from out
A full-orbed moon, that, like thine own soul, soaring,
Sought a precipitate pathway up through heaven,
There fell a silvery-silken veil of light,
With quietude, and sultriness, and slumber,
Upon the upturned faces of a thousand
...
Thou wast all that to me, love,
For which my soul did pine-
A green isle in the sea, love,
A fountain and a shrine,
All wreathed with fairy fruits and flowers,
And all the flowers were mine.
Ah, dream too bright to last!
Ah, starry Hope! that didst arise
But to be overcast!
A voice from out the Future cries,
"On! on!"- but o'er the Past...
I dwelt alone
In a world of moan,
And my soul was a stagnant tide,
Till the fair and gentle Eulalie became my blushing bride—
Till the yellow-haired young Eulalie became my smiling bride.
Ah, less—less bright
The stars of the night
Than the eyes of the radiant girl!
That the vapor can make
With the moon-tints of purple and pearl,
Can vie with...
[54] An . . . .
In des Verstandes eitler Ueberhebung
Verkündete ich einst die „Macht der Sprache,“
Bestritt, daß ein Gedanke je erwache,
Für den das Wort ohnmächtig zur Belebung.
5 Und gleichsam,...
[45] An Annie.
Dem Himmel sei Dank,
Die Gefahr ist vorüber!
Wohl bin ich noch krank,
Doch das schreckliche Fieber,
5 Das Lebensfieber,
Ist glücklich bekämpft,
Ist endlich gedämpft.
[51] An F . . . S.
Geliebte! In dem Ungemach,
Das sich in meinen Pfad gedrängt,
(Ein rauher Pfad, steinicht und brach,
Von allen Seiten eingeengt), –
5 Kennt meine Seele einen Ort,
Dessen sie...
[21] An Helene.
Ich sah dich einmal, einmal nur – vor Jahren.
Es war in einer Julinacht; vom klaren,
Gestirnten Himmel, wo in sichrer Schwebe
Der volle Mond eilends die Bahn durchlief,
5 Fiel weich und...
