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  • Poe's Cottage at Fordham

    Here lived the soul enchanted
      By melody of song;
    Here dwelt the spirit haunted
      By a demoniac throng;
    Here sang the lips elated;
    Here grief and death were sated;
    Here loved and here unmated
      Was he, so frail, so strong.

    Here wintry winds and cheerless
      The dying firelight blew,
    While he whose song was...

    John Henry Boner

  • Poe’s Cottage at Fordham

    Here lived the soul enchanted
      By melody of song;
    Here dwelt the spirit haunted
      By a demoniac throng;
    Here sang the lips elated;
    Here grief and death were sated;
    Here loved and here unmated
      Was he, so frail, so strong.

    Here wintry winds and cheerless
      The dying firelight blew,
    While he whose song was...

    John Henry Boner

  • The grave my little cottage is,

    The grave my little cottage is,

    Where "Keeping house" for thee

    I make my parlor orderly

    And lay the marble tea.


    For two divided, briefly,

    A cycle, it may be,

    Till everlasting life unite

    In strong society.