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The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe






This collection of Edgar Allan Poe's poems contains at least one example of every surviving poem of which he is certain or nearly certain to be the author. Variants, noted parenthetically beside the name of the poem, refer to those given in the edition of Poe's poems edited by Thomas Ollive Mabbott (The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume I: Poems, Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1969). Mabbott's is the definitive edition of Poe's poems, including notes on all textual variants from manuscripts and texts published up to the edition edited by Griswold in 1850. For punctuation variants, refer to the very fine collection of Poe's poems by Floyd Stovall (The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia, 1965). In general, Mabbott assigns each variant a one-letter code of "A" through "Z." It should be noted, however, that Mabbott never assigns a text "I" or "O." To a few variants, Mabbott assigns a 2-character value, with a letter and a number, such as "J2." Where we have added our own items to the list of variants, we have adopted a 2-character value comprised of letters only, such as "CB." A number of recognized reprints and translations from Poe's lifetime have been included on the list to reflect public reaction to a tale. This list is not necessarily exhaustive as there were many unauthorized reprints. (Mabbott does not list reprints, so these have been culled from a variety of other sources, especially the Bibliography (1943) by Heartman and Canny.) Generally, the text for reprints is not given here as these can hardly add to our documentation of Poe's intentions or our understanding of its meaning.

Within these selections, all original punctuation, abbreviations and spellings have been retained. Where these spellings differ greatly from modern spellings, the most current form is noted in brackets immediately following the word. A number of obvious variants, such as "colour" for "color," reflect conventions to which we no longer adhere, but which were considered acceptable during Poe's lifetime and are left to stand without additional commentary. For manuscript material, including Poe's own corrections to printed sources, text contained within angle brackets "<...>" shows annotations made by Poe himself for the main text given. Reversed double-angle brackets ">>...<<" show text that Poe has canceled by striking or scratching out. Text contained within square brackets "[...]" is not part of the original. This text is intended as notes or corrections of typographical errors. In the original printings, some text occasionally appears within square brackets "[...]." In such cases, these have been changed to standard parentheses to avoid confusion. (Note: Over times, we will be changing our previously stated policy concerning square brackets to retain Poe's usage and distinguish our own editorial notes by enclosing these in double-square brackets "[[...]]".)

At the end of each selection, beyond the "End of Text" tag, is a code, such as "[S:1]". This code is intended as an internal marker for keeping track of verification of the text.  In general, a value of "[S:0]" or the total absence of the code notes that the text has been entered, but not yet verified. Anyone who has ever tried to proofread a large volume of text will appreciate the inherent difficulties.








The Collections and Books:

During his lifetime, Poe published four collections of his poetry. A posthumous collection, edited by Rufus Wilmot Griswold, incorporates some additional manuscript changes, although Griswold did not have access to a few other important corrections and is therefore less than definitive. These collections are listed chronologically.  Within each of these, there is a list of poems which links to the appropriate text of text.
  • "Wilmer" manuscript collection  (about 1828, several poems in manuscript)
  • "Richmond Examiner" manuscript collection  (late 1849, several poems for which the contents are recorded but the manuscript apparently lost)







The Poems:

These items are arranged alphabetically by the name of the poem. Within each name, the items are listed chronologically. A few poems were published by Poe under more than one name, or under a name assigned by later editors. These poems are listed under the name most commonly used.    

Scroll down, or select letter:  A   B   C   D   E   F   G   H   I   J   K   L   M   N   O   P   Q   R   S   T   U   V   W   X   Y   Z





~~ A ~~

  • An Acrostic   (written about 1829)
    • Manuscripts, Authorized or Significant Printings:
      • "An Acrostic"  (@1829, text "A" — the only text, manuscript)
  • Al Aaraaf   (written before May 1829)
    • Authorized or Significant Printings:
      • "Al Aaraaf"   (May 18, 1829, text "A" — of excerpts only)
      • "Al Aaraaf"   (December 1829, text "B" — of excerpts only)
      • "Al Aaraaf"   (1829, text "C" — the first full text, ATMP)
      • "Al Aaraaf"   (December 29, 1829, text "D" — lines 130-131 only, manuscript letter with extract)
      • "Al Aaraaf"   (1831, text "E" — with substantial revisions, POEMS)
      • "Spirit's Invocation"   (February 25, 1843 — Saturday Museum)  (excerpts only, as part of a biographical article about Poe. No surviving copies located. Reprinted as "F")
      • "Spirit's Invocation"   (March 4, 1843, text "F" — Saturday Museum (excerpts only, as part of a biographical article about Poe. Reprinted from February 25, 1843)
      • "Al Aaraaf"   (February 1845, text "G" — excerpt only, Graham's) (This excerpt appears in Lowell's article on Poe.)
      • "Al Aaraaf"   (May 24, 1845, text "H" — excerpts only, Broadway Journal)
      • "Al Aaraaf"   (1845, text "J" — manuscript changes in ATMP in preparation for RAOP)
      • "Al Aaraaf"   (October, 1845, text "J2" — manuscript changes for reading in Boston)
      • "Al Aaraaf"  (1845, text "K" — essentially a reprint of text "C," with only minor revisions, RAOP)
      • "Al Aaraaf"   (1848, text "L" — extracts in "The Rationale of Verse," manuscript fragments)
      • "Al Aaraaf"   (October 1848, text "M" — extracts in "The Rationale of Verse," Southern Literary Messenger)
      • "Al Aaraaf"   (1849, text "N" — extracts in "A Reviewer Reviewed," manuscript)
      • "Al Aaraaf"   (1850, text "P" — WORKS)
      • "Al Aaraaf"   (1850, text "Q" — extracts in "The Rationale of Verse," WORKS)
    • Reprints:
      • "Al Aaraaf"  (1830 — Baltimore Minerva and Emerald) (excerpts, printed as part of a review of ATMP)
      • "Al Aaraaf"  (November 4, 1845 — Boston Daily Star, p. 4) (reprint noted by K. Ljundquist, Victorian Periodicals Review, Fall 1995, p. 206-208, item 7.)
      • "Al Aaraaf"  (November 5, 1845 — Boston Daily Star, p. 4) (reprint noted by K. Ljundquist, Victorian Periodicals Review, Fall 1995, p. 208, item 8.)
      • "Al Aaraaf"  (November 6, 1845 — Boston Daily Star, p. 4) (reprint noted by K. Ljundquist, Victorian Periodicals Review, Fall 1995, p. 208, item 9.)
      • "Spirit Invocation"  (1850 — Thomas Powell, The Living Writers of America, New York: Stringer and Townsend, 1850, pp. 116-117. These excerpts from "Al Aaraaf" were probably reprinted from the Saturday Museum, which carries the title and essentially the same excerpts used.)
  • Alone  ("From childhood's hour, I have not been . . .") (written about 1829)
    • Manuscripts, Authorized or Significant Printings:
      • "Original [Alone]" (@1829, text "A" — the only text)
      • "Alone" (September 1875 — Scribner's Monthly Magazine) (The poem was printed as a facimile, but with the title and a date added. These adjustments, by Eugene L. Dider, caused some concern about the authenticity of the poem, concerns which have long since been dismissed.)
      • "Alone"  (1876 — Works (Ingram)) (This is the American edition, published by W. J. Widdleton.)
      • "Alone" (1877 — Life and Poems, W. J. Widdleton) (with a new memoir by E. L Didier)
  • Alone  ("O! I care not that my earthly lot . . .") (written about 1828) (see "To M—")
  • Annabel Lee  (written about May 1849)
    • Manuscripts, Authorized or Significant Printings:
      • "Annabel Lee"  (1849, text "A" — "Griswold" manuscript)
      • "Annabel Lee" (1849, text "B" — "Moore" manuscript)
      • "Annabel Lee" (July 1849, text "C" — "Hirst" manuscript)
      • "Annabel Lee" (July 1849, text "D" — "Sartain" manuscript)
      • "Annabel Lee" (October 1849, text "E" — "Thompson" manuscript)
      • "Annabel Lee" (@ August, 1849, text "F" — Richmond Examiner)
      • "Annabel Lee" (October 9, 1849, text "G" — New-York Daily Tribune)  (The "Ludwig" obituary)
      • "Annabel Lee" (November 1849, text "H" — Southern Literary Messenger)
      • "Annabel Lee" (late 1849, text "J" — Poets and Poetry of America, 10th edition)
      • "Annabel Lee" (January 1850, text "K" — Sartain's)
      • "Annabel Lee" (1850, text "L" — WORKS)
    • Reprints: (widely reprinted in October 1849 as part of an obituary for Poe. Both "Annabel Lee" and "The Bells" were alternately given the status of "Poe's last poem.")
      • "Annabel Lee"  (October 13, 1849 — Gazette of the Union, Golden Rule, and Odd Fellow's Family Companion)
      • "Annabel Lee"  (October 13, 1849 — Literary World, New York)
      • "Annabel Lee"  (October 13, 1849 — McMakin's Model American Courier, Philadephia, PA)
      • "Annabel Lee"  (October 13, 1849 — Richmond Enquirer, Richmond, VA)
      • "Annabel Lee"  (October 16, 1849  — New-York Tribune (California edition))
      • "Annabel Lee"  (October 16, 1849 — Troy Post, Troy, NY)
      • "Annabel Lee"  (October 18, 1849 — Boston Emancipator and Republican, Boston, MA)
      • "Annabel Lee"  (October 18, 1849 — Lynchburg Virginian, Lynchburg, VA) (reprinted as part of the "Ludwig" obituary from the Tribune)
      • "Annabel Lee"  (October 19, 1849 — Tri-Weekly American, Lowell, MA)  (Reprinted from NY Tribune)
      • "Annabel Lee"  (October 20, 1849 — Home Journal)  (Reprinted in N. P. Willis's article "The Death of Poe," in quoting from the "Ludwig" obituary from the Tribune)
      • "Annabel Lee"  (October 20, 1849 — Albion, New York, NY)
      • "Annabel Lee"  (October 20, 1849 — Gem of the Prairie, Chicago, IL)
      • "Annabel Lee"  (October 20, 1849  — New-York Weekly Tribune)
      • "Annabel Lee"  (October 22, 1849 — Rochester Democrat, Rochester, NY)
      • "Annabel Lee"  (October 23, 1849 — Evening Mirror (New York))
      • "Annabel Lee"  (October 23, 1849 — New York Republican, Troy, NY)
      • "Annabel Lee"  (October 24, 1849 — Dollar Newspaper (Philadelphia))  (reprinted as part of the "Ludwig" obituary from the Tribune)
      • "Annabel Lee"  (October 27, 1849 — Boston Weekly Museum and Literary Portfolio) (reprinted as part of an obituary from the New York Metropolis)
      • "Annabel Lee"  (October 29, 1849 — New Orleans Weekly Delta, New Orleans, LA)
      • "Annabel Lee"  (October 29, 1849 — Daily Toledo Blade, Toledo, OH)
      • "Annabel Lee"  (October 31, 1849 — Cleveland Plain Dealer, Cleveland, OH)
      • "Annabel Lee"  (October 31, 1849 — Marysville Tribune, Marysville, OH)  (probably reprinted from NY Tribune)
      • "Annabel Lee"  (November 1849 — Western Literary Messenger, Buffalo, NY) (published by Calvin F. S. Thomas)
      • "Annabel Lee"  (November 1, 1849 — Pittsfield Sun, Pittsfield, MA)
      • "Annabel Lee"  (November 2, 1849 — Lebanon Western Star, Lebanon, OH)
      • "Annable [[Annabel]] Lee"  (November 3, 1849 — Portland Transcript (Maine))
      • "Annabel Lee"  (November 3, 1849 — Hartford Weekly Times, Hartford, CT)  (Reprinted from the New York Tribune)
      • "Annabel Lee"  (November 3, 1849 — Pittsburgh Saturday Visiter, Pittsburgh, PA)
      • "Annabel Lee"  (November 3, 1849 — Portland Transcript, Portland, ME)
      • "Annabel Lee"  (November 3, 1849 — Literary Union, Syracuse, NY)  (Reprinted as part of the "Ludwig" obituary)
      • "Annabel Lee"  (November 7, 1849 — Painesville Telegraph, Painesville, OH)
      • "Annabel Lee"  (November 7, 1849 — New Hampshire Gazette and Republican Union, Portsmouth, NH)
      • "[Annabel Lee]"  (November 8, 1849 — Vincennes Gazette, Vincennes, IN)
      • "Annabel Lee"  (November 9, 1849 — Daily Chronicle and Sentinel, Augusta, Georgia)
      • "Annabel Lee"  (November 12, 1849 — Nova Scotian, Halifax, Nova Scotia)
      • "Annabel Lee"  (November 13, 1849 — Weekly Democrat, Chicago, IL)  (by "the late E. A. Poe")
      • "Annabel Lee"  (November 14, 1849 — Rome Citizen, Rome, NY)
      • "Annabel Lee"  (November 16, 1849 — Schenectady Reflector, Schenectady, NY)
      • "Annabel Lee"  (November 23, 1849 — Indiana State Weekly Journal, Indianapolis, IN)
      • "Annabel Lee"  (1850 — The Present or a Gift for the Times, Manchester, New Hampshire, edited by F. A. Moore)
      • "Annabel Lee"  (1850 — Thomas Powell, The Living Writers of America, New York: Stringer and Townsend, 1850, pp. 126-127)
      • "Annabel Lee"  (February 9, 1850 — New England Washingtonian, Boston, MA)
      • "Annabel Lee"  (1853 — Thalatta: A Book for the Sea-Side, Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Field) (This is a collection of poetry by various authors, from Bryant to Wordsworth, all with some kind of sea connection. This poem is the only Poe item in the collection.)
      • "Annabel Lee"  (1853 — An Offering to Beauty, Lowell: Merrill and Straw) (The full title of this ornately bound book is: An Offering to Beauty: Composed of the Choicest Descriptions of Female Loveliness, Virtue, Accomplishments, Attractions, and Chams; Comprising the Poetry of Woman, edited by J. W. Hanson. Poe's poem appears on pp. 226-228.)
      • "Annabel Lee"  (February 1854 — Southern Literary Messenger)
      • "Annabel Lee"  (February 1854 — Graham's)  (reprinted in a biographical notice, pp. 216-225)
      • "Annabel Lee"  (1858 — Achievements of Americans, Cincinnati: Henry Howe)  (along with "The Raven")
      • "Annabel Lee"  (1865 — Golden Leaves from the American Poets, collected by John W. S. Hows, New York: Bunce and Huntington) (This common collection of popular poems includes works by Poe, Emerson, Longfellow, J. R. Lowell, F. S. Key, Whittier, and others.)
      • "Annabel Lee"  (October 8, 1864  — Home Journal)
      • "Annabel Lee"  (1867 — Roses and Holly, a Gift-Book for all the Year, published by J. B. Lippincott)
      • and many others
    • Translations:
      • "[Annabel Lee]" (1857 — "Edgar Allan Poe," Magazin für die Literatur des Auslandes, 130:519-520.)  (German translation by Luise von Ploennis.)




~~ B ~~

  •  The Bells  (written about May 1848)
    • Authorized or Significant Printings:
      • "The Bells"   (1848, text "A" — manuscript of short text, lost and not recorded)
      • "The Bells"   (May 1848, text "B" — manuscript)
      • "The Bells"   (@ December 1848, text "C" — manuscript, lost but printed in Sartain's for December 1849)
      • "The Bells"   (February 6, 1849, text "D" — manuscript of long text, lost and not recorded)
      • "The Bells" (1849, text "E" — manuscript, missing stanza 3)
      • "The Bells"   (@ August 1849, text "F" — Richmond Examiner proofsheets)
      • "The Bells" (November 1849, text "G" — printed form of text "E," Sartain's)
      • "The Bells"   (October 27, 1849, text "H" — Home Journal)
      • "The Bells"   (1850, text "J" — WORKS)
    • Reprints: (Both "Annabel Lee" and "The Bells" were alternately given the status of "Poe's last poem.")
      • "The Bells"  (October 18, 1849 — Evening Mirror (New York))
      • "The Bells"  (October 17, 1849 — New York Daily Tribune) (reprinted from "G")
      • "The Bells"  (October 20, 1849 — New York Weekly Tribune) (reprinted from "G")
      • "The Bells"  (October 20, 1849 — Daily Mercury, New Bedford, MA) (Reprinted from Sartain's)
      • "The Bells"  (October 20, 1849 — Neale's Saturday Gazette, Philadelphia, PA) (Reprinted from Sartain's)
      • "The Bells"  (October 21, 1849 — Nantucket Inquirer, Nantucket, MA) (Reprinted from Sartain's)
      • "The Bells"  (October 24, 1849 — The National Aegis, Worcester, MA) (Reprinted from Sartain's)
      • "The Bells"  (October 26, 1849 — Weekly Mercury, New Bedford, MA) (Reprinted from Sartain's, and repeated from the Daily Mercury)
      • "The Bells"  (October 27, 1849 — M'Makin's Model American Courier, formerly called the Saturday Courier)  (Apparently reprinted from "G") (Not in H&C. Noted for sale by a dealer in 1995.)
      • "The Bells"  (October 27, 1849 — Literary World)
      • "The Bells"  (October 27, 1849 — Daily Cincinnati Gazette, Cincinnati, OH)
      • "The Bells"  (October 30, 1849 — Savannah Republican, Savannah, GA)
      • "The Bells"  (October 31, 1849 — Dollar Newspaper) (not in H&C. Noted in 1992 "The Poe Catalogue," of the 19th Century Bookshop, p. 92.)
      • "The Bells"  (October 31, 1849 — Massachusetts Spy, Worcester, MA)  (Reprinted from Sartain's)
      • "The Bells"  (November 1849 — Southern Literary Messenger)
      • "The Bells"  (November 1849 — Aurora Borealis (Boston))  (This unauthorized reprint from Sartain's mistakenly prints "alarm" for "alarum" in the third stanza.)
      • "The Bells"  (November 1849 — Wellman's Literary Miscellany, Detroit, MI)
      • "The Bells"  (November 1, 1849 — Massachusetts Cataract, Temperance Standard, and Dew Drop, Worcester, MA) (Reprinted from Sartain's)
      • "The Bells"  (November 1, 1849 — Cambridge Chronicle, Cambridge, MA) (Reprinted from Sartain's)
      • "The Bells"  (November 2, 1849 — Jamestown Journal, Jamestown, NY)  (Reprinted from the Home Journal)
      • "The Bells"  (November 2, 1849 — Richmond Enquirer, Richmond, VA)
      • "The Bells"  (November 3, 1849 — Gem of the Prairie, Chicago, IL)
      • "The Bells"  (November 3, 1849 — Gazette of the Union, Golden Rule)
      • "The Bells"  (November 3, 1849 — Christian Register (Unitarian), Boston, MA)
      • "The Bells"  (November 3, 1849 — Kennebec Journal, Augusta, ME)  (Reprinted from Sartain's)
      • "The Bells"  (November 3, 1849 — Boston Cultivator, Boston, MA)  (Reprinted from Sartain's)
      • "The Bells"  (November 3, 1849 — Hartford Weekly Times, Hartford, CT)  (Reprinted from the Home Journal)
      • "The Bells"  (November 3, 1849 — Providence Journal, Providence, RI)  (Reprinted from Sartain's)
      • "The Bells"  (November 3, 1849 — Boston Cultivator, Boston, MA)  (probably reprinted from Sartain's) (printed as "BY EDGAR A. POE. -- HIS LAST POEM.")
      • "The Bells"  (November 7, 1849 — Cist's Weekly Advertiser, Cincinnati, OH) (owned by L. J. Cist, who briefly corresponded with Poe)
      • "The Bells"  (November 8, 1849 — Independent, New York, NY)  (Reprinted from Sartain's)
      • "The Bells"  (November 8, 1849 — Pennsylvania Freeman, Philadelphia, PA)  (Reprinted from Sartain's)
      • "The Bells"  (November 10, 1849 — Pittsburgh Saturday Visiter, Pittsburgh, PA)
      • "The Bells"  (November 11, 1849 — The Weekly Independent, Aberdeen, MS)
      • "The Bells"  (November 12, 1849 — Brooklyn Daily Eagle, New York, NY)  (Reprinted from Sartain's)
      • "The Bells"  (November 14, 1849 — Oquawka Spectator, Oquawka, IL)
      • "The Bells"  (November 14, 1849 — Peoria Democratic Press, Peoria, IL)  (Reprinted from the Home Journal)
      • "The Bells"  (November 17, 1849 — Flag of Our Union, Boston, MA) (Reprinted from Sartain's)
      • "The Bells"  (November 17, 1849 — Warsaw Signal, Warsaw, IL) (Reprinted from Sartain's)
      • "The Bells"  (November 24, 1849 — Littel's Living Age)
      • "The Bells"  (November 26, 1849 — Indiana State Weekly Journal, Indianapolis, IN)  (Reprinted from Sartain's)
      • "The Bells"  (November 28, 1849 — Scioto Journal, Chillicothe, OH)  (Reprinted from Sartain's)
      • "The Bells"  (December 1, 1849 — Boston Weekly Museum and Literary Portfolio, Boston, MA)
      • "The Bells"  (December 7, 1849 — Mobile Daily Advertiser, Mobile, AL)  (Reprinted from Sartain's)
      • "The Bells"  (January 26, 1850 — New England Washingtonian, Boston, MA)  (Reprints the long and short versions, both from Sartain's)
      • "The Bells" (November 3, 1850 — The Gem of the Prairie, Chicago, IL)
      • "The Bells"  (1851 — The Literary Reader, For Academics and High Schools)  (one of the earliest school books to include Poe.)
      • "The Bells" (1852 — The String of Diamonds, Gathered from Many Mines, by "A Gem Fancier." )  (copyright is 1851. It also includes "The Raven," and many poems by other poets.)
      • "The Bells"  (January 1853 — The National Magazine)  (illustrated, pp. 73-74)
      • "The Bells"  (April 16, 1853 — Littel's Living Age) (also with a reprint of "The Haunted Palace")
      • "The Bells"  (1859 — The Poets of the West, London: Sampson Low, Son & Co.)  (The subtitle reads: "A Selection of Favorite American Poems with memoirs of their authors." This poem is the only one by Poe included, on pp. 103-104.)
      • "The Bells"  (1859 — Lovell's Progressive Readers, No. 5, New Haven: Peck, White and Peck)  (The subtitle reads: "A Class Book for the use of Advanced Pupils in Public and Private Schools. It is edited by John E. Lovell. The copyright date is also 1859, suggesting that this was the first edition.)
      • "The Bells"  (1865 — Golden Leaves from the American Poets, collected by John W. S. Hows, New York: Bunce and Huntington) (This a common collection of popular poems includes works by Poe, Emerson, Longfellow, J. R. Lowell, F. S. Key, Whittier, and others.)
      • and many others
  • Beloved Physician  (written about April 1847)
    • Authorized or Significant Printings:
      • "Beloved Physician"  (April 1847, text "A" — manuscript, lost and not recorded)
      • "Beloved Physician"  (1847, text "B" — recollection of fragments by Mrs. Shew)
      • "Beloved Physician"  (1847, text "C" — fragments only, published by J. H. Ingram)
  • Bridal Ballad
    • Authorized or Significant Printings:
      • "Ballad"   (January 1837, text "A" — Southern Literary Messenger)
      • "Ballad"   (July 31, 1841, text "B" — Saturday Evening Post)
      • "Song of the Newly-Wedded"   (March 4, 1843, text "C" — Saturday Museum)
      • "Bridal Ballad"   (August 2, 1845, text "D" — Broadway Journal)
      • "Bridal Ballad" (1845, text "E" — RAOP)
      • "Bridal Ballad"   (1849, text "F" — manuscript revisions in J. Lorimer Graham copy of RAOP)
      • "Bridal Ballad"   (1850, text "G" — WORKS)
    • Reprints:
      • "Bridal Ballad"  (August 15, 1845 — Boston Post, p. 1, reprinted with Poe's name from the Broadway Journal)  (This reprint noted by K. Ljungquist, from a paper printed in Emersonian Circles, 1997, p. 195n24.)




~~ C ~~

  • A Campaign Song
    • Authorized or Significant Printings:

  • Catholic Hymn (See "Hymn")
  • The City in the Sea
    • Authorized or Significant Printings:
      • "The Doomed City" (1831, text "A" — POEMS)
      • "The City of Sin"  (August 1836, text "B" — Southern Literary Messenger)
      • "The City in the Sea"  (April 1845, text "C" — American Review)
      • "The City in the Sea"  (August 30, 1845, text "D" — Broadway Journal)
      • "The City in the Sea"  (1845, text "E" — RAOP)
      • "The City in the Sea"  (1845-1849, text "F" — manuscript revisions in J. Lorimer Graham copy of RAOP)
      • "The City in the Sea"  (late 1849, text "G" — Poets and Poetry of America, 10th edition, dated 1850)
      • "The City in the Sea"  (1850, text "H" — WORKS)
    • Reprints:
      • "[The Doomed City]"  (May 7, 1831 — New York Mirror)  (reprint of excerpts from Poems in a short review)
  • The Coliseum
    • Authorized or Significant Printings:
      • "The Coliseum" (October 26, 1833, text "A" — Baltimore Saturday Visiter)
      • "The Coliseum" (1835, text "B" — in "Politian" manuscript)
      • "The Coliseum" (August 1835, text "C" — Southern Literary Messenger)
      • "The Coliseum" (@1841, text "D" — "Herring" manuscript)
      • "The Coliseum" (June 12, 1841, text "E" — Saturday Evening Post)
      • "The Coliseum" (1842, text "F" — Poets and Poetry of America) (The poem continued to appear in later editions.)
      • "The Coliseum" (February 25, 1843 — Saturday Museum)  (no surviving copies located, but reprinted on March 4, 1843)
      • "The Coliseum" (March 4, 1843, text "G" — Saturday Museum) (from February 25, 1843)
      • "The Coliseum" (July 12, 1845, text "H" — Broadway Journal)
      • "The Coliseum" (1845, text "J" — RAOP)
      • "The Coliseum" (1845, text "K" — The Poetry of the Sentiments)
      • "The Coliseum" (1845-1849, text "L" — manuscript revisions in J. Lorimer Graham copy of RAOP)
      • "The Coliseum" (1850, text "M" — WORKS)
    • Reprints: (excertps)
      • "Ruins" (1849 — The Poets Offering for 1850) (Noted by H&C, p. 129. This excerpt reprints 8 lines from the poem.)
  • The Conqueror Worm
    • Authorized or Significant Printings:
      • "The Conqueror Worm" (January 1843, text "A" — Graham's)
      • "The Conqueror Worm"  (February 25, 1843 — Saturday Museum)  (no surviving copies located)
      • "The Conqueror Worm" (March 4, 1843, text "B" — Saturday Museum)  (from February 25, 1843)
      • "The Conqueror Worm" (February 15, 1845, text "C" — in "Ligeia," New World)
      • "The Conqueror Worm" (May 24, 1845, text "D" — Broadway Journal)
      • "The Conqueror Worm" (September 27, 1845, text "E" — in "Ligeia," Broadway Journal)
      • "The Conqueror Worm" (1845, text "F" — RAOP, with minor changes from "J")
      • "The Conqueror Worm" (@1847, text "G" — "Griswold" manuscript, lost)
      • "The Conqueror Worm" (1847, text "H" — Poets and Poetry of America, 8th edition)
      • "The Conqueror Worm" (1850, text "K" — in "Ligeia" WORKS)
      • "The Conqueror Worm" (1850, text "L" — WORKS)




~~ D ~~

  • [Deep in Earth]
    • Authorized or Significant Printings:
    • Reprints:
      • "[Deep in Earth]"  (December 1914 — Bulletin of the New York Public Library, 18:1462)
      • "Couplet"  (1917 — The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, edited by J. H. Whitty)
  • The Divine Right of Kings
  • A Dream
    • Authorized or Significant Printings:
      • "[Untitled]"   (1827, text "A" — TAOP)
      • "A Dream"   (1829, text "B" — ATMP)
      • "A Dream"   (1845, text "C" — manuscript changes in ATMP in preparation for RAOP)
      • "A Dream"   (August 16, 1845, text "D" — Broadway Journal)
      • "A Dream"   (1845, text "E" — RAOP)
      • "A Dream"   (1850, text "F" — WORKS)

  • Dream-Land
    • Authorized or Significant Printings:
      • "Dream-Land" (June 1844, text "A" — Graham's)
      • "Dream-Land" (June 28, 1845, text "B" — Broadway Journal)
      • "Dream-Land" (1845, text "C" — RAOP, with two minor modifications from "E")
      • "Dream-Land" (late 1849, text "D" — Poets and Poetry of America, 10th edition, dated 1850)
      • "Dream-Land" (October 23, 1849, text "F" — Richmond Examiner)
      • "Dream-Land" (1850, text "G" — WORKS)
    • Reprints:
      • "Dreamland"  (April 18, 1846 — Littel's Living Age)
      • "Dream-Land"  (March, 1850 — American Whig Review) (reprinted in a review)
  • Dreams
    • Authorized or Significant Printings:





~~ E ~~

  • Eldorado
    • Authorized or Significant Printings:
    • Reprints:
      • "Eldorado"  (February 23, 1850 — Hartford Times, Hartford, CT)
  • Elizabeth
    • Authorized or Significant Printings:
      • "Elizabeth"  (@1829, text "A," the only text — manuscript)
  • Enigma [On Shakespeare]
    • Authorized or Significant Printings:
      • "Enigma" (February 2, 1833, text "A," the only text — Baltimore Saturday Visiter)
  • An Enigma  (Sarah Anna Lewis)  (written about November 1847)
    • Authorized or Significant Printings:
      • "Sonnet"   (March 1848, text "A" — Union Magazine)
      • "An Enigma" (1850, text "B"  — WORKS)
    • Reprints:
      • "Sonnet"  (March 3, 1849 — Portland Transcript)  (reprinted from Sartain's)
  • Epigram for Wall Street  (written in 1845)
    • Authorized or Significant Printings:

  • Evangeline
    • Authorized or Significant Printings:
      • "[Evangeline]" (1848, text "A," in "The Rationale of Verse" — manuscript)
      • "[Evangeline]" (November 1848, text "B," in "The Rationale of Verse" — Southern Literary Messenger)
      • "Evangeline" (summer 1849, text "C," in "Mem. for Philadelphia — manuscript)
  • Evening Star
    • Authorized or Significant Printings:

  • Eulalie
    • Authorized or Significant Printings:
      • "Eulalie" (February 1843, text "Y"  — questionable "Carter" manuscript)
      • "Eulalie" (1844, text "A"  — "Hirst" manuscript)
      • "Eulalie" (@1844, text "Z" — "Hearst" manuscript)
      • "Eulalie" (July 1845, text "B" — American Review)
      • "Eulalie" (August 9, 1845, text "C" — Broadway Journal)
      • "Eulalie" (@1845, text "D" — "Yale" manuscript)
      • "Eulalie" (1845, text "E" — RAOP, with one manuscript revision from "G")
      • "Eulalie" (1846, text "F" — manuscript)
      • "Eulalie" (1849, text "G" — one manuscript revision in Graham copy of RAOP)
      • "Eulalie" (1850, text "H" — WORKS)




~~ F ~~

  • Fairyland
    • Authorized or Significant Printings:
      • "[Heaven]"   (September 1829, text "A" — of excerpts only, Yankee)
      • "[Untitled]"   (November 1829, text "B" — of excerpts only, American Monthly)
      • "Fairyland"   (1829, text "C" — ATMP)
      • "Fairy-Land"   (1829 or 1830, text "D" — of excerpts only)
      • "Fairy Land"   (1831, text "E" — POEMS)
      • "Fairyland"   (August 1839, text "F" — Burton's)
      • "Fairy-Land"   (1845, text "G" — manuscript revisions in ATMP in prepartion for RAOP)
      • "Fairy-Land"   (1845, text "H" — RAOP)
      • "Fairyland"   (October 4, 1845, text "J" — Broadway Journal)
      • "Fairy-Land"   (1850, text "K" — WORKS)
    • Reprints:
      • "[Fairy Land]"  (May 7, 1831 — New York Mirror)  (reprint of excerpts from Poems in a short review)
  • Fanny
    • Authorized or Significant Printings:
      • "Fanny" (May 18, 1833, text "A," the only text  — Baltimore Saturday Visiter)
  • For Annie
    • Authorized or Significant Printings:
      • "For Annie"  (March 23, 1849, text "A" — "Annie" manuscript)
      • "For Annie"  (April 1, 1849, text "AA"  — "Chester" manuscript)
      • "For Annie"  (April 28, 1849, text "B" — Flag of Our Union)
      • "For Annie"  (April 20, 1849, text "C" — "Willis" manuscript)
      • "For Annie"  (April 28, 1849, text "D" — Home Journal)
      • "For Annie"  (May 16, 1849, text "E" — Oquawka Spectator)
      • "For Annie"  (late 1849, text "F" — Poets and Poetry of America, 10th edition, dated 1850)
      • "For Annie" (1850, text "G" — WORKS)
      • "For Annie"  (September 26, 1849, text "H" — "Talley" manuscript, lost and not recorded)
      • "For Annie"  (1849, text "Z" — Richmond Examiner proofsheets)
    • Reprints:
      • "For Annie"  (July 31, 1849 — Richmond Daily Republican, from the Home Journal) (see Poe Log, p. 820-821)




~~ H ~~

  • The Happiest Day
    • Authorized or Significant Printings:

  • The Haunted Palace
    • Authorized or Significant Printings:
      • "The Haunted Palace" (April 1839, text "A" — American Museum)
      • "The Haunted Palace" (September 1839, text "B" — in "The Fall of the House of Usher," Burton's)
      • "The Haunted Palace" (1840, text "C" — in "The Fall of the House of Usher," Tales of G & A)
      • "The Haunted Palace" (1842, text "D" — in "The Fall of the House of Usher," manuscript changes in Phantasy Pieces)
      • "The Haunted Palace" (1842, text "E" — Poets and Poetry of America) (The poem continued to appear in later editions.)
      • "The Haunted Palace" (February 25, 1843 — Saturday Museum)  (no surviving copies located)
      • "The Haunted Palace" (March 4, 1843, text "F" — Saturday Museum) (from February 25, 1843)
      • "The Haunted Palace" (February 1845, text "G" — Graham's, printed as part of Lowell's article on Poe.)
      • "The Haunted Palace" (1845, text "H" — in "The Fall of the House of Usher," Tales)
      • "The Haunted Palace" (1845, text "J" — RAOP)
      • "The Haunted Palace" (1847, text "K" — in "The Fall of the House of Usher," Prose Writers of America)
      • "The Haunted Palace" (1850, text "Q" — in "The Fall of the House of Usher," WORKS)
      • "The Haunted Palace" (1850, text "R" — WORKS)
    • Reprints:
      • "The Haunted Palace"  (January 21, 1845 — Evening Mirror (New York))
      • "The Haunted Palace"  (January 24, 1845 — New-York Daily Tribune)
      • "The Haunted Palace"  (February 1, 1845 — New-York Weekly Tribune)
      • "The Haunted Palace"   (February 12, 1845 — reprint in the Yankee Blade (Waterville, ME)) (noted by Ljungquist)
      • "[The Haunted Palace]"  (May 24, 1845, excerpt of begining 12 lines — Broadway Journal)  (This is one of several examples Poe quotes in his review of William Lord's Poems.)
      • "The Haunted Palace"  (August 9, 1845 — Baltimore Saturday Visiter)  (reprinted as part of a letter by Edward H. Docwra)
      • "The Haunted Palace"  (May 23, 1846 — Littel's Living Age)
      • "The Haunted Palace"  (March 5, 1847  — Semi-Weekly Courier and New York Enquirer) (H&C, p. 249)
      • "The Haunted Palace"  (March, 1850 — American Whig Review) (reprinted in a review)
      • "The Haunted Palace"  (September 28, 1850 — Literary World)
      • "The Haunted Palace"  (April 16, 1853 — Littel's Living Age) (also with a reprint of "The Bells")
      • "The Haunted Palace"  (1849 — The Gift-Leaves of American Poetry) (H&C, p. 126.)
      • "The Haunted Palace"  (1856 — Cyclopedia of American Literature, New York: Charles Scribner)
    • Translations:
      • "[The Haunted Palace]" (1857 — "Edgar Allan Poe," Magazin für die Literatur des Auslandes, 131:522-524.)  (German translation by Luise von Ploennis.)
  • Hymn
    • Authorized or Significant Printings:
      • "[Catholic Hymn]"   (@1833, text "A" — in "Morella," manuscript)
      • "[Catholic Hymn]"   (April 1835, text "B" — in "Morella," Southern Literary Messenger)
      • "[Catholic Hymn]"   (November 1839, text "C" — in "Morella," Burton's)
      • "[Catholic Hymn]"   (1840, text "D" — in "Morella," Tales of the G & A)
      • "[Catholic Hymn]"   (1842, text "E" — in "Morella," Phantasy Pieces)
      • "[Catholic Hymn]"   (August 16, 1845, text "F" — Broadway Journal)
      • "Catholic Hymn"   (1845, text "G" — RAOP)
      • "Hymn"   (1845, text "H" — RAOP, with manuscript title change.)
      • "Hymn"   (1850, text "J" — WORKS)




~~ I ~~


  • Impromptu. To Kate Carol  (written about April 26, 1845)
    • Authorized or Significant Printings:


  • Israfel
    • Authorized or Significant Printings:
      • "Israfel"   (1831, text "A" — POEMS)
      • "Israfel"   (August 1836, text "B" — Southern Literary Messenger)
      • "Israfel"   (October 1841, text "C" — Graham's)
      • "Israfel"   (February 25, 1843 — Saturday Museum)  (no surviving copies located)
      • "Israfel"   (March 4, 1843, text "D" — Saturday Museum) (from February 25, 1843)
      • "Israfel"   (July 26, 1845, text "E" — Broadway Journal)
      • "Israfel"   (1845, text "F" — RAOP, with minor punctuational manuscript revision from "G")
      • "Israfel"   (late 1849, text "H" — Poets and Poetry of America, 10th edition, dated 1850)
      • "Israfel"   (1850, text "J" — WORKS)
    • Reprints:
      • "Israfel"   (November 1841 — Lady's Pearl (Lowell))
      • "Israfel"  (November 26, 1845 — New-York Daily Tribune)
      • "Israfel"  (November 29, 1845 — New-York Weekly Tribune)




~~ L ~~

  • The Lake
    • Authorized or Significant Printings:
      • "The Lake"   (1827, text "A" — TAOP)
      • "The Lake"   (1828, text "B" — manuscript)
      • "The Lake — To —"   (1829, text "C" — ATMP)
      • "The Lake"   (1831, text "D" — incorporated into "Tamerlane" in POEMS)
      • "The Lake. To ——"   (1846, text "E" — Missionary Memorial) (H&C note, pp. 124-125, that this book was reprinted, from the same plates, in 1848. It was printed again in 1849 for The Missionary Offering for 1850 and yet again in 1853. In 1851, it was apparently called The Christian Souvenir and Missionary Memorials.)
      • "The Lake —  To —"    (1845, text "F" — RAOP)
      • "The Lake — To ——"   (1850, text "G" — WORKS)
  • Latin Hymn  (written about May 1833)
    • Authorized or Significant Printings:
      • "[Latin Hymn]"  (May 4, 1833, text "A" — in "Epimanes," manuscript)
      • "[Latin Hymn]"  (March 1836, text "B" — in "Epimanes" Southern Literary Messenger)
      • "[Latin Hymn]"  (1840, text "C" — in "Epimanes" Tales of the G & A)
      • "[Latin Hymn]"  (1845, text "D" — in "Four Beasts in One" Broadway Journal)
      • "[Latin Hymn]"  (1850, text "E" — in "Four Beasts in One" WORKS)
  • Lenore
    • Authorized or Significant Printings:
      • "Lenore" (February 1843, text "A" — The Pioneer) (Printed in Boston and also Philadelphia.)
      • "Lenore" (February 25, 1843 — Saturday Museum)  (no surviving copies located)
      • "Lenore" (March 4, 1843, text "B" — Saturday Museum) (from February 25, 1843)
      • "Lenore" (@ October 1844, text "C" — periodical uncertain, possibly the New York Sunday Times. Text reprinted in "C1", "C2" and "C3," see below.)
      • "Lenore" (February 1845, text "D" — Graham's) (Printed as part of Lowell's article on Poe.)
      • "Lenore" (August 16, 1845, text "E" — Broadway Journal)
      • "Lenore"   (May 24, 1845, text "EA" — excerpt only, 2 lines, Broadway Journal)
      • "Lenore" (1845, text "F" — RAOP)
      • "Lenore" (late 1849, text "G" — Poets and Poetry of America, 10th edition, dated 1850)
      • "Lenore" (May (?) 1849, text "H" (lines 20-26) — Letter to R. W. Griswold)
      • "[Lenore]" (@ June 1849 — lines 10-12 only, "Griswold" manuscript)
      • "Lenore" (@ August 1849, text "J" — manuscript revisions in J. Lorimer Graham copy of RAOP)
      • "Lenore" (September 18, 1849, text "K" — Richmond Whig and Public Advertiser)
      • "[Lenore]"  (1850 — lines 10-12 only in article about H. B. Hirst, WORKS)
      • "Lenore" (1850, text "L" — WORKS)
    • Reprints:
      • "[Lenore]"   (October 17, 1849 — Louisville Daily Journal, Louisville, KY)  (only a few stanzas)
      • "[Lenore]" (before November 28, 1844, text "C1" — Jackson Advocate (Tennesee))
      • "[Lenore]" (November 28, 1844, text "C2" — Evening Mirror)
      • "Lenore"  (January 21, 1845 — Evening Mirror (New York)) (Included as part of a reprint of J. R. Lowell's article on Poe from Graham's Magazine.)
      • "Lenore"  (September ? 1845 — Chambersburg Times (Pennsylvania)) (An unathorized reprint criticized by Poe in the Broadway Journal for September 13, 1845)
      • "Dirge [Lenore]" (September 13, 1848, text "C2" — Oquawka Spectator)
      • "Lenore" (November 2, 1850 — Boston Daily Times, Boston, MA)
      • "Lenore"  (1856 — Cyclopedia of American Literature, New York: Charles Scribner)
  • Lines on Ale
    • Authorized or Significant Printings:

  • Lines on Joe Locke  (written about 1830)
    • Authorized or Significant Printings:
      • "[Lines on Joe Locke]"  (March 4, 1843, text "A" — Saturday Museum)  (quoted as part of an article about Poe, attributed to H. B. Hirst)
      • "[Lines on Joe Locke]"  (November 1867, text "C" — second stanza only, Harper's, vol. 35, p. 754)
    • Reprints:
      • "[Lines on Joe Locke]" (July 29, 1843 —  Baltimore Saturday Visiter) (quoted from the Saturday Museum, in an article adapted from the one printed there.)
      • "[Lines on Joe Locke]"  (October 13, 1849 — M'Makin's Model American Courier, Philadephia, PA)
      • "[Lines on Joe Locke]"  (October 20, 1849, text "B" — M'Makin's Model American Courier, formerly called the Saturday Courier)  (quoted as part of an article about Poe by H. B. Hirst.)
      • "[Lines on Joe Locke]"  (1876 — Laurel Leaves, p. 368)  (from an article by William F. Gill)  (reprinted from Saturday Museum)
      • "[Lines on Joe Locke]"  (1878 — Life of Poe, p. 53)  (biography by William F. Gill)  (reprinted from Saturday Museum)




~~ M ~~

  • May Queen Ode
    • Authorized or Significant Printings:





~~ O ~~

  • O, Tempora! O, Mores!
    • Authorized or Significant Printings:
      • "O, Tempora! O, Mores!"  (@1825?, text "A" — Manuscript)
      • "O, Tempora! O, Mores!"  (March 7, 1868 — Southern Opinion, March 7, 1868)
    • Reprints:
      • "O, Tempora! O, Mores!"  (October 1889 — No Name Magazine)




~~ P ~~

  • A Paean
    • Authorized or Significant Printings:
      • "A Paean"  (1831, text "A" — POEMS)
      • "A Pæan"  (January 1836, text "B" — Southern Literary Messenger)
    • Reprints:
      • "A Pæan"  (1911 — Whitty, The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, pp. 209-211)
    • (See also "Lenore")
  • Poetry
    • Manuscripts, Authorized or Significant Printings:
      • "Poetry"  (@1824, text "A"  — the only text, manuscript)
  • Politian (a dramatic stage play in verse)
    • Manuscripts, Authorized or Significant Printings:
      • "Politian"  (1835, text "A"— "Politian" Manuscript)
      • "Scenes from an Unpublished Drama" (text "B")
        • "Scenes from an unpublished Drama" (scenes IV, VI and VII)  (December 1835, text "B"— Southern Literary Messenger)
        • "Scenes from an unpublished Drama"  (scenes III and IX)  (January 1836, text "B"— Southern Literary Messenger)
      • ["Scene from Politian"] (lines from scene IV, quoted in "Imitation — Plagiarism")   (March 29, 1845, text "C"— Broadway Journal)
      • "Scenes from 'Politian' "  (scenes III, IV, VI, VII and IX) (1845, text "D" — RAOP)
      • "Scenes from 'Politian' " (scenes III, IV, VI, VII and IX) (1846-1849, text "E"— manuscript revisions in Graham copy of RAOP)
      • "Scenes from 'Politian' " (scenes III, IV, VI, VII and IX) (1850, text "F" — WORKS)
      • ["Scene from Politian"] (lines from scene IV, quoted in "Mr. Longfellow and Other Plagiarists")  (1856, text "G"— WORKS)
      • ["Scenes from Politian"] in "Poe's 'Politian'" by John H. Ingram, two printings of the same article:
        • ["Scenes from Politian"] (November 1875, text "H" — Southern Magazine, 10:588-594)
        • ["Scenes from Politian"] (November 1875 — London Magazine of Light Literature)
      • "Politian"  (1888, text "J" — The Poetical Works of Edgar A. Poe, London and New York, edited by John H. Ingram)
      • "Politian"  (1911, text "K" — Complete Poems of Edgar A. Poe, Boston, edited by James H. Whitty, pp. 327-328)
      • ["Transcript of a scene from 'Politian'"]  (Nov.-Dec. 1912, text "L" — The Autograph) (features a somewhat innacurate transcript of scene XI)
      • "Politian"  (1917, text "M" — Complete Poems of Edgar A. Poe, Boston, second edition, edited by James H. Whitty)  (This version adds scene XI)
      • "Politian" (1923, text "N" — Politian)  (This version was edited by Thomas Ollive Mabbott)
      • "Politian" (1965, text "P" — The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, pp. 301-340)  (This version was edited by Floyd Stovall, and sequences the scenes somewhat differently than does Mabbott)
      • "Politian" (1968 — The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, pp. 301-298)  (This version was edited by Thomas Ollive Mabbott)




~~ R ~~

  • The Raven
    • Manuscripts, and Authorized or Significant Printings:
      • "The Raven"   (February 1845, text "A" — American Review)
      • "The Raven"   (January 29, 1845, text "B" — Evening Mirror)
      • "The Raven"   (March 1845, text "C" — Southern Literary Messenger)
      • "The Raven"   (February 3, 1845, text "D" — manuscript revision of lines 60-66 in a letter to J. Augustus Shea)
      • "The Raven"   (February 4, 1845, text "E" — New-York Daily Tribune)  (Noted as "From the American Review for February," although Poe is given as the author, first acknowledged in the Evening Mirror.)
      • "The Raven"   (February 8, 1845, text "F" — Broadway Journal)
      • "The Raven"   (May 24, 1845, text "G" — lines 3-4 only, Broadway Journal)
      • "The Raven"   (June 14, 1845, text "H" — Critic)
      • "The Raven"   (1845, text "J" — RAOP)
      • "The Raven"   (late 1845, text "K" — manuscript revision of lines 103-108)
      • "The Raven"   (December 1845, text "L" — Literary Emporium) (The subtitle of this journal is "A Compendium of Religious Literary and Philosophical Knowledge.")
      • "The Raven"   (April 1846, text "M" — lines quoted in "The Philosophy of Composition," Graham's)
      • "The Raven"   (July 25, 1846, text "N" — Saturday Courier)
      • "The Raven"   (May 29, 1847, text "P" — Poets and Poetry of America) (The poem continued to appear in later editions.)
      • "The Raven"   (January 1848, text "Q" — lines quoted in the Southern Literary Messenger, in article by P. P. Cooke)
      • "The Raven"   (September 1848, text "R" — "Whittaker" manuscript)  (Poe sent the MS to Eli Bowen about the end of September 1848, apparently in reply to a request from Bown. Bowen transmitted it to Dr. S. A. Whittaker on September 25, 1848.)
      • "The Raven"   (1846-1849, text "S" — manuscript revisions in J. Lorimer Graham RAOP)
      • "The Raven"   (September 25, 1849, text 'T" — Semi-Weekly Examiner)  (This is generally accepted as the final authorized version of the text.)
      • "The Raven"   (November 3, 1849, text "U" — M'Makin's Model American Courier, formerly called the Saturday Courier)  (Short introductory notice titled "Poe's Great Poem," followed by "The Raven, by the Late Edgar Allan Poe.")  (This is a reprint of of version "N".)
      • "The Raven"   (1850, text 'W" — WORKS)  (Griswold prints the poem from RAOP, with most of Poe's corrections, but the typesetter retains some punctuation and adds two errors.)
    • Reprints:
      • "The Raven"   (February 3, 1845 — New York  Morning News)  (First documented by G. Thomas Tanselle in "An Unknown Early Appearance of 'The Raven'," Studies in Bibliography, XVI, 1963 and noted in Poe Newsletter (Poe Studies), October 1968, p. 30)
      • "The Raven"   (February 8, 1845 — Weekly Mirror)
      • "The Raven"   (February 8, 1845 — New-York Weekly Tribune)
      • "The Raven"   (February 15, 1845 — Howard District Press (Maryland))
      • "The Raven"   (February 15, 1845 — Pennsylvania Inquirer and National Gazette (Philadelphia)) (not in H&C. Noted in 1992 "The Poe Catalogue," of the 19th Century Bookshop, p. 75. The poem appears there under the heading "A Beautiful Poem.")
      • "The Raven"   (February 21, 1845  — The Liberator, p. 32)
      • "The Raven"   (February 23, 1845  — Western Literary Messenger, Buffalo, NY)
      • "The Raven"   (1845 (published by April 19, 1845) — A Plain System of Elocution, by G. Vandenhoff, second edition, New York) (Although this was an unauthorized reprint, it is the first appearance of the poem in a book. Later editions do not include the poem. It may have been removed by legal pressure.)
      • "The Raven"   (June 6, 1845 — Massachusetts Temperance Standard)  (not in H&C. Noted for sale by a dealer on Nov. 8, 2000.)
      • "The Raven"  (June 1849 — Lawrence Messenger (MA)) (noted by Ljungquist)  (No copies of this item have been located, but the reprint is noted in the Lawrence Courier for June 16, 1849.)
      • "The Raven"   (July 26, 1845 — Littel's Living Age)
      • "The Raven"   (December 1846 — Ladies Wreath and Literary Gatherer (Boston))
      • "The Raven"   (1848 — Literary Annual) (This item is listed by H&C, p. 116. The subtitle of this journal is "A Compendium of Religious Literary and Philosophical Knowledge." It may be a reprint of the Literary Emporium of 1845 noted above.)
      • "The Raven"   (November 1, 1848 — Dollar Newspaper)
      • "The Raven" (about November 1848 — Hartford Weekly Gazette) (This paper was edited by Rufus White Griswold -- not to be confused with Rufus Wilmot Griswold, the person who edited Poe's works in 1850 and wrote the malicious memoir of Poe. Poe mentions the reprint of the poem in a November 26, 1848 letter to Sarah Helen Whitman.)
      • "The Raven"   (September 12, 1849 — Oquawka Spectator) (Printed with the introductory note: "We publish on our first page, this week, one of the most remarkable poems ever written. Mr. Poe has long held the rank of one of our very best poets, and The Raven is in his best style. We bespeak for it a careful perusal. There will be found running through it, clothed in a robe of euphonious rhymes and remarkably appropriate language, an Idea well worthy of the pen of its author -- the never-dying existence of the memory.")
      • "The Raven"   (October 4, 1849 — Evening Patriot, Baltimore, MD) (part of an obituary to Poe)
      • "The Raven"   (October 9, 1849 — Daily Advertiser, Newark, NJ)
      • "The Raven"   (October 10, 1849 — Gazette, Alexandria, VA)
      • "The Raven"   (October 12, 1849 — Enquirer, Richmond, VA)
      • "The Raven"   (October 12, 1849 — Richmond Whig and Public Examiner, Richmond, VA) (reprinting the obituary from the Evening Patriot)
      • "The Raven"   (October 15, 1849 — Daily Republican, Richmond, VA)
      • "The Raven"   (October 17, 1849 — Scioto Journal, Chillicothe, OH)  (reprinted from some unspecified Eastern paper)
      • "The Raven"   (October 17, 1849 — Louisville Daily Journal, Louisville, KY)  (only a few stanzas)
      • "The Raven"   (October 21, 1849 — Mobile Daily Advertiser, Mobile, AL)
      • "The Raven"   (October 23, 1849 — Daily Chronicle and Sentinel, Augusta, GA)
      • "The Raven"   (October 24, 1849 — Pennsylvania Telegraph, Harrisburg, PA)
      • "The Raven"   (November 2, 1849 — True Whig, Mount Vernon, OH)
      • "The Raven"   (November 4, 1849 — Literary American, NY, only 3 stanzas)
      • "The Raven"   (November 14, 1849 — Corning Journal, Corning, NY)"The Raven"   (November 1849 — Southern Literary Messenger, Richmond, VA)
      • "The Raven"   (November 22, 1849 — Vincennes Gazette, Vincennes, IN)
      • "The Raven"   (November 1849 — Southern Baptist, Charleston, SC)
      • "The Raven"   (December 9, 1849 — Weekly Register, Mobile, AL)
      • "The Raven"   (December 15, 1849 — Boston Weekly Museum and Literary Portfolio)
      • "The Raven"  (1850 — Thomas Powell, The Living Writers of America, New York: Stringer and Townsend, 1850, pp. 128-131, omitting several stanzas)
      • "The Raven"   (1851 — Parker's Fourth Reader) (The poem is lesson CLXXIV)
      • "The Raven" (1852 — The String of Diamonds, Gathered from Many Mines, by "A Gem Fancier." )  (copyright is 1851. It also includes "The Bells," and many poems by other poets.)
      • "The Raven" (1852 — Tales and Sketches: to which is added The Raven: A Poem, London, George Routledge & Co.)
      • "The Raven"  (1856 — Cyclopedia of American Literature, New York: Charles Scribner)
      • "The Raven"   (September 1857 — The Orator)
      • "The Raven"  (1858 — Achievements of Americans, Cincinnati: Henry Howe)  (along with "Annabel Lee")
      • "The Raven"   (1858 — Poets of the Nineteenth Century) (an anthology edited by Poe's friend Evert A. Duyckinck. "The Raven" is one of Poe's most-collected poems, appearing in hundreds of anthologies.)
      • "The Raven"  (1859 — Lovell's Progressive Readers, No. 5, New Haven: Peck, White and Peck)  (The subtitle reads: "A Class Book for the use of Advanced Pupils in Public and Private Schools. It is edited by John E. Lovell. The copyright date is also 1859, suggesting that this was the first edition.)
      • "The Raven"  (1865 — Golden Leaves from the American Poets, collected by John W. S. Hows, New York: Bunce and Huntington) (This a common collection of popular poems includes works by Poe, Emerson, Longfellow, J. R. Lowell, F. S. Key, Whittier, and others.)
      • "The Raven"  (1865 — a new year's greeting in the form of a 7 page booklet, on heavy card stock, printed for the Philadelphia Inquirer. It includes the illustration used in several of the Widdleton editions of the Poems, although the illustration appears slightly different and may be reversed.)
      • "The Raven"  (May 1870 — Deforest's Monthly Magazine) (This printing features 10 pleasant but unremarkable vignette illustrations. Not surprisingly, the narrator looks a great deal like Poe.)
      • and many others
    • Translations:
      • "Le Corbeau"  (French translation by Charles Baudelaire.)
      • "Der Rabe"  (November 6, 1853 — "Literarische Symptome in den Vereiniften Staaten," Magazine für die Literatur des Auslandes)  (German translation in an article by Elise von Hohenhausen, 70:278-280)
      • "[The Raven]" (1857 — "Edgar Allan Poe," Magazin für die Literatur des Auslandes, 129:513-514.)  (German translation by Luise von Ploennis.)
      • "Der Rabe"  (1859 — Amerikanische Gedichte [American Poems]) (German translation by Friederich Spielhagen)
      • "De Raaf" (1861 — Holland)  (Dutch translation by Jacob van Lennep)  (This information was provided by René van Slooten, who also notes that a thorough search of the Royal Library at the Hague produced no other translations of Poe's works before 1900. Apparently, French was widely spoken in the Netherlands and Baudelaire's translations were easily available.)
      • "Le Corbeau"  (1862 — Contes inédits d'Edgard Poe) (French translation by William Hughes, with a few stanzas reprinted by Ingram, The Raven, with Literary and Historical Commentary, London: George Redway, 1885, pp. 41-42.)
      • "Der Rabe"  (1862 — Lieder und Balladenbuch Americanischer und Englischer Dichter, Hamburg) (translation by Adolf Strodtmann, a few verses are reprinted by Ingram, The Raven, with Literary and Historical Commentary, London: George Redway, 1885, pp. 72-73.)
      • ["The Raven, in Latin"]  (1866 — Oxford and London)  (Latin translation by  Ludovicus Gidley and Robinson Thornton, from a volume of translations called Fasciculus. The translation of "The Raven" is reprinted by Ingram, The Raven, with Literary and Historical Commentary, London: George Redway, 1885, pp. 79-83.)
      • "Der Rabe" (1869 — Philadelphia) (German translation by Carl Theodor Eben, reprinted by Ingram, The Raven, with Literary and Historical Commentary, London: George Redway, 1885, pp. 60-65)
      • "A Hollo"  (1870 — Budapest) (Hungarian Translation by Endrody, from Nagy Szellemek [Great Men], edited by Thomas Szana, reprinted by Ingram, The Raven, with Literary and Historical Commentary, London: George Redway, 1885, pp. 74-78.)
      • "Le Corbeau"  (1875 — French translation by Stèphane Mallarmé, reprinted by Ingram, The Raven, with Literary and Historical Commentary, London: George Redway, 1885, pp. 42-48.)
      • "[The Raven"]  (1878 — Vestnik Evropy, III) (Russian translation by Konstantin Balmont)
      • "Der Rabe"  (February 28, 1880 — Magazine für die Literatur des Auslandes)  (German translation by Betty Jacobson, reprinted by Ingram, The Raven, with Literary and Historical Commentary, London: George Redway, 1885, pp. 66-71.)
      • "El Cuervo"  (1887 — New York: "La America" Publishing Co)  (translation by J. A. Perez Bonalde, with many illustrations)
      • "Poe's Raven"  (July 7, 1891 — Pennsylvania Dutch translation by H. L. Fischer, 7 pages, printed in Mapleshade, York, PA)  (copy sold by 19th Century Bookshop, 1992, item 510)
      • and many others
    • Forgeries:
      • T. O. Mabbott notes that "A 'complete manuscript' reproduced in Muse Anthology of Modern Poetry (New York, 1939) is generally regarded as a recent concoction" (Poems, 1969, p. 364). This manuscript is different from the one in the Gimbel collection (version "R" above), which is considered authentic.
  • Romance
    • Authorized or Significant Printings:
      • "Preface"   (1829, text "A" — ATMP)
      • "Preface"   (December 29, 1829, text "B" — lines 11-15 only, manuscript letter)
      • "Introduction"   (1831, text "C" — POEMS)
      • "[Untitled]"   (February 25, 1843 — Saturday Museum)  (no surviving copies located)
      • "[Untitled]"   (March 4, 1843, text "D" — Saturday Museum) (from February 25, 1843)
      • "Romance"   (1845, text "E" — manuscript changes in ATMP in preparation for RAOP)
      • "Romance"   (August 30, 1845, text "F" — Broadway Journal)
      • "Romance"   (1845, text "G" — RAOP)
      • "Romance"   (1850, text "H" — WORKS)
      • "[Untitled]"   (April 26, 1850, text "J" — lines 11-15, printed from text "B," Portland Daily Advertiser)
    • Reprints:
      • "Romance"  (September 3, 1845 — Boston Post, p. 1, reprinted anonymously from the Broadway Journal)  (This reprint noted by K. Ljungquist, from a paper printed in Emersonian Circles, 1997, p. 195n24.)




~~ S ~~

  • Serenade
    • Authorized or Significant Printings:
      • "Serenade" (1833, text "A," the only text — Baltimore Saturday Visiter)
  • The Sleeper
    • Authorized or Significant Printings:
      • "Irene"  (1831, text "A" — POEMS)
      • "Irene"   (May 1836, text "B" — Southern Literary Messenger)
      • "Irene"   (early 1837, text "C" — "McCabe" manuscript)
      • "The Sleeper"   (1842, text "D" — Poets and Poetry of America) (The poem continued to appear in later editions.)
      • "The Sleeper"   (May 22, 1841, text "E" — Saturday Chronical)
      • "The Sleeper"   (February 25, 1843 — Saturday Museum)  (no surviving copies located)
      • "The Sleeper"   (March 4, 1841, text "F" — Saturday Museum) (from February 25, 1843)
      • "The Sleeper"   (May 3, 1845, text "G" — Broadway Journal)
      • "The Sleeper"   (1845, text "H" — RAOP)
      • "The Sleeper"   (1849, text "J" — manuscript revisions in J. Lorimer Graham copy of RAOP)
      • "The Sleeper"   (1850, text "K" — WORKS)
    • Reprints:
      • "Irene"  (May 1831 — Casket)
  • Song
    • Authorized or Significant Printings:
      • "To — —"  (1827, text "A"  — TAOP)
      • "To — —"  (1828, text "B"  — manuscript)
      • "To — —"  (1829, text "C" — ATMP, with one manuscript note from "D")
      • "Song"  (1845, text "E"  — one manuscript change in ATMP in preparation for RAOP)
      • "Song"   (1845, text "F" — RAOP)
      • "Song"  (September 20, 1845, text "G"  — Broadway Journal)
      • "Song"  (1850, text "H"  — WORKS)
  • [Song of Triumph from Epimanes]
    • Manuscripts, Authorized or Significant Printings:
      • "[Song of Triumph]" (1833, text "A" — in "Epimanes," manuscript)
      • "[Song of Triumph]" (1836, text "B" — in "Epimanes" Southern Literary Messenger)
      • "[Song of Triumph]"  (1840, text "C" — in "Epimanes" Tales of the G & A)
      • "[Song of Triumph]"  (1845, text "D" — in "Four Beasts in One" Broadway Journal)
      • "[Song of Triumph]"  (1850, text "E" — in "Four Beasts in One" WORKS)
  • Sonnet — Silence
    • Manuscripts, Authorized or Significant Printings:
      • "Silence, a Sonnet" (December 25, 1839, text "A" — manuscript)
      • "Silence, a Sonnet" (January 4, 1840, text "B" — Saturday Courier)
      • "Silence, a Sonnet" (April 1840, text "C" — Burton's)
      • "Sonnet — Silence"  (February 25, 1843 — Saturday Museum)  (no surviving copies located)
      • "Sonnet — Silence" (March 4, 1843, text "D" — Saturday Museum) (from February 25, 1843)
      • "Sonnet — Silence" (July 26, 1845, text "E" — Broadway Journal)
      • "Sonnet — Silence" (1845, text "F" — RAOP)
      • "Silence" (1850, text "G" — WORKS)

  • Sonnet — To Science
    • Authorized or Significant Printings:
      • "[Untitled]" (1829, text "A" — ATMP)
      • "Sonnet"    (September 11, 1830, text "B" — Saturday Evening Post)
      • "Sonnet"    (October 1830, text "C" — The Casket)
      • "[Untitled]" (1831, text "D" — POEMS)
      • "Sonnet"    (May 1836, text "E" — Southern Literary Messenger)
      • "[Untitled]"    (June 1841, text "F" — Graham's)  (Included in "The Island of the Fay.")
      • "Sonnet — To Science"    (February 25, 1843 — Saturday Museum)  (no surviving copies located)
      • "Sonnet — To Science"    (March 1843, text "G" — Saturday Museum) (from February 25, 1843)
      • "Sonnet — To Science"    (August 2, 1845, text "H" — Broadway Journal)
      • "Sonnet — To Science"    (1845, text "J" — RAOP)
      • "Sonnet — To Science"    (1850, text "K" — WORKS)
    • Reprints:
      • "[Untitled]"   (May 1831, text "CA" — The Casket)  (This poem is quoted, along with two others, from Poe's 1831 volume of Poems.)
      • "Sonnet to Science"  (1850 — Thomas Powell, The Living Writers of America, New York: Stringer and Townsend, 1850, p. 119, apparently reprinted from Saturday Museum.)
  • Sonnet — To Zante
    • Manuscripts, Authorized or Significant Printings:
      • "Sonnet — To Zante" (January 1837, text "A" — Southern Literary Messenger)
      • "To Zante" (November 6, 1840, text "B" — "Stoddard" manuscript)
      • "Sonnet — To Zante" (March 4, 1843 text "C" — Saturday Museum)
      • "Sonnet — To Zante" (July 19, 1845 text "D" — Broadway Journal)
      • "Sonnet — To Zante" (1845, text "E" — RAOP)
      • "Sonnet — To Zante" (1849 text "F" — in "A Reviewer Reviewed" manscript)
      • "To Zante" (1850 text "G" — Poets and Poetry of America)
      • "To Zante" (1850 text "H" — WORKS)

  • Spiritual Song
    • Authorized or Significant Printings:

  • Stanzas
    • Authorized or Significant Printings:

  • Stanzas [To F. S. O.]
    • Authorized or Significant Printings:





~~ T ~~

  • Tamerlane
    • Authorized or Significant Printings:
      • "Tamerlane"   (1827, text "A" — TAOP)
      • "Tamerlane"   (1828, text "B" — fragmentary manuscript)
      • "Tamerlane"   (1829, text "C" — ATMP, with one manuscript variant from text "D")
      • "Tamerlane"   (December 1829, text "E" — excerpts only, Yankee)
      • "Tamerlane"   (1831, text "F" — POEMS)
      • "Tamerlane"   (1845, text "G" — manuscript revisions in ATMP prepared for RAOP)
      • "Tamerlane"   (1845, text "H" — RAOP)
      • "Tamerlane"   (1850, text "J" — WORKS)
  • To — ["Should my early life seem . . ."]
    • Authorized or Significant Printings:
      • "To — —" (1829, text "A" — manuscript, lost but text recorded)
      • "To — —"   (December 1829, text "B," Yankee  — excerpts only)
      • "To — —" (1829, text "C" — ATMP)
      • "To — —" (1831, text "D" — incorporated into "Tamerlane" in POEMS)
    • Reprints:
      • "To —"  (1830 — Baltimore Minerva and Emerald) (printed as part of a review of ATMP)
    • (See also "A Dream Within a Dream" and "Imitation" )
  • To — ["The bowers whereat . . . "]
    • Authorized or Significant Printings:
      • "To — —" (1829, text "A" — ATMP)
      • "To — —" (1845, text "B" — manuscript revisions in ATMP in preparation for ROAP)
      • "To ——" (September 20, 1845, text "C" — Broadway Journal)
      • "To ——" (1845, text "D" — ROAP)
      • "To ——" (1850, text "E" — WORKS)
    • Reprints:
      • "To — —"  (January 1846 — Knickerbocker) (printed as part of a review of The Raven and Other Poems)
  • To —— ["Sleep on, sleep on, another hour . . ."]
    • Authorized or Significant Printings:
      • "To ———" (May 11, 1833, text "A," the only text  — Baltimore Saturday Visiter)
  • To —— [Violet Vane]
    • Authorized or Significant Printings:


  • To F——s S. O——d [Frances Sargent Osgood]
    • Authorized or Significant Printings:
      • "To Elizabeth"  (@1833, text "A" — manuscript)
      • "Lines Written in an Album"   (1835, text "B" — Southern Literary Messenger)
      • "To —"  (August 1839, text "C" — Burton's)
      • "To —"  (@1841, text "D" — "Herring" manuscript, written by Virginia Poe)
      • "To F—"  (September 13, 1845, text "E" — lines 1-4 only, Broadway Journal)
      • "To F——s S. O——d" (1845, text "F" — RAOP)
      • "To ——"  (1848, text "G" — The Lover's Gift, for 1849)
      • "To F——s S. O——d"  (1850, text "H" — WORKS)
      • "To F——s S. O——d"  (date uncertain, text "J" — "Chapin" manuscript)
    • Reprints:
      • "To F——s S. O——d"  (January 1846 — Knickerbocker) (printed as part of a review of The Raven and Other Poems)
  • To Frances
    • Authorized or Significant Printings:
      • "To Mary"  (July 1835, text "A" — Southern Literary Messenger)
      • "To One Departed"   (March 1842, text "B" — Graham's)
      • "To One Departed"   (February 25, 1843 — Saturday Museum)  (no surviving copies located)
      • "To One Departed"   (March 4, 1843, text "C" — Saturday Museum) (from February 25, 1843)
      • "To F— [Frances]"   (April 26, 1845, text "D" — Broadway Journal)
      • "To F —— " (1845, text "E" — RAOP)
      • "To F —— " (1850, text "F" — WORKS)
    • Reprints:
      • "To One Departed"   (March 5, 1842, reprinted from "B" — The New World, p. 2, col. 4, towards the bottom)
  • To Helen ["Helen, thy beauty is to me. . ."]
    • Authorized or Significant Printings:
      • "To Helen"   (1831, text "A" — POEMS)
      • "To Helen"   (March 1836, text "B" — Southern Literary Messenger)
      • "To Helen"   (September 1841, text "C" — Graham's)
      • "To Helen"   (February 25, 1843 — Saturday Museum)  (no surviving copies located, but reprinted in issue of March 4, 1843))
      • "To Helen"   (March 4, 1843, text "D" — Saturday Museum) (from February 25, 1843)
      • "To Helen"   (February 1845, text "E" — Graham's) (Printed as part of Lowell's article on Poe.)
      • "To Helen"   (1845, text "F" — RAOP, with manuscript title change from "H")
      • "To Helen"   (1848, text "G" — The Lover's Gift, for 1849)
      • "To Helen"   (1850, text "J" — WORKS)  (Printed along with Lowell's article on Poe)
    • Reprints:
      • "To Helen"  (May 1831 — Casket)
      • "To Helen"  (April 11, 1836 — The Metropolitan (Georgetown))
      • "To Helen"  (May 21, 1841 — Saturday Evening Post)
      • "To Helen"  (January 24, 1845 — New-York Daily Tribune)
      • "To Helen"  (February 1, 1845 — New-York Weekly Tribune)
      • "To Helen"  (1850 — Thomas Powell, The Living Writers of America, New York: Stringer and Townsend, 1850, pp. 114-115)
      • "To Helen"  (1864 — The Wreath of Beauty)
  • To Helen [Sarah Helen Whitman]
    • Authorized or Significant Printings:
      • "[To Helen]"   (June 1, 1848, text "A" — "Whitman" manuscript) (Mrs. Whitman sent this manuscript to Dr. J. R. Buchanan of Louisville, Kentucky for a "psychometric reading." Dr. Buchanan appears not to have returned the mansucript, and it is now presumed lost. Mrs. Whitman mentions in a letter of March 6, 1874 to J. H. Ingram, "There was no signature to the poem, nor any title," although she recognized the handwriting. She says that it was sent to her by Poe "in the early summer of 1848.")
      • "To — — —"   (November 1848, text "B" — Union Magazine) (issued in October)
      • "To Helen"   (October 10, 1849, text "C" — New-York Daily Tribune)
      • "To Helen"   (late 1849, text "D" — Poets and Poetry of America, 10th edition, dated 1850)
      • "To Helen"   (1850, text "E" — WORKS)
    • Reprints:
  • To Isaac Lea
    • Authorized or Significant Printings:

  • To M—  ["I heed not that my . . . "]
    • Manuscripts, Authorized or Significant Printings:
      • "Alone"  (1828, text "A" — manuscript)
      • "To M—"  (1829, text "B" — ATMP)
      • "To M—"  (1845, text "C" — manuscript revisions in ATMP in preparation for RAOP)
      • "To ——"  (1845-1849, text "D" — manuscript)
      • "To ——"  (1850, text "E" — WORKS)
    • Reprints:
      • "To M—"  (1830 — Baltimore Minerva and Emerald) (excerpt, printed as part of a review of ATMP)
  • To M. L. S——— [Marie Lousie Shew] (written February 14, 1847)
  • To Margaret
    • Authorized or Significant Printings:

  • To Marie Louise [Shew]
    • Authorized or Significant Printings:

  • To Miss Louise Olivia Hunter
  • To My Mother
    • Authorized or Significant Printings:
      • "Sonnet -- To My Mother"  (July 7, 1849, text "B" — Flag of Our Union)
      • "To My Mother"  (1850, text "B" — WORKS)
      • "Sonnet to My Mother"   (1849, text "C" — Leaflets of Memory for 1850) (an "annual" for 1850 would have been printed and sold in 1849, and is reviewed in the Literary World for November 17, 1849, see below.) (Although issued before WORKS, this appears to be a more fully revised version, probably arranged by Poe before his death but unknown to Griswold.)
    • Reprints:
      • "Sonnet -- To My Mother"   (August 8, 1849, text "BA" — reprint, Oquawka Spectator)  (noted as copied from the Flag of Our Union)
      • "To My Mother"   (October 29, 1849, text "CB" — reprint, Richmond Examiner)
      • "To My Mother"  (November 17, 1849 — reprint, Literary World)  (reprinted from "C")
      • "To My Mother"  (December 7, 1849 — reprint, Herald, New York)
      • "To My Mother"  (December 8, 1849 — reprint, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, New York)  (Reprinted from Herald)
      • "To My Mother"   (December 1849, text "CC" — reprint with minor prefatory material, Sartain's)
      • "To My Mother"   (December 1849, text "CD" — reprint, Southern Literary Messenger)
      • "To My Mother"   (November 24, 1849, text "CE" — reprint, Home Journal)
      • "To My Mother"  (April 1850 — reprint, Sartain's, p. 312)
      • "[To My Mother]"   (October 30, 1858, text "CF" — reprint, Home Journal, included in a "letter" about Poe by N. P. Willis.)
  • To Octavia
    • Manuscripts, Authorized or Significant Printings:


  • To One in Paradise
    • Manuscripts, Authorized or Significant Printings:
      • "[Untitled]"  (@1833, text "A" — manuscript, now lost but text recorded)
      • "[Untitled]"  (January 1834, text "B" — in "The Visionary," The Lady's Book)
      • "[Untitled]"  (July 1835, text "C" — in "The Visionary," Southern Literary Messenger)
      • "Ianthe in Heaven"  (July 1839, text "D" — Burton's)
      • "[Untitled]"  (1840, text "E" — in "The Visionary," Tales of the G & A)
      • "To Ianthe in Heaven"  (1840/1841, text "F" — American Melodies) (This book is dated 1841, but copyrighted as 1840)
      • "To One Beloved"  (January 9, 1841, text "G" — Saturday Evening Post)
      • "To One in Paradise"  (February 25, 1843 — Saturday Museum) (no surviving copies located)
      • "To One in Paradise"  (March 4, 1843, text "H" — Saturday Museum) (from February 25, 1843)
      • "[Untitled]"  (@1841, text "J" — abridged text with first and last stanzas only, "Herring" manuscript)
      • "To One in Paradise"  (May 10, 1845, text "K" — Broadway Journal)
      • "[To One in Paradise]"  (June 7, 1845, text "L" — in "The Assignation," Broadway Journal)
      • "To One in Paradise"  (1845, text "M" — RAOP, with minor manuscript revisions from "N")
      • "To One in Paradise"  (Late 1849, text "P" — Poets and Poetry of America, 10th edition, dated 1850)
      • "[To One in Paradise]"  (1850, text "Q" — in "The Assignation" WORKS)
      • "To One in Paradise"  (1850, text "R" — WORKS)
      • "To One Departed"  (@1844, text "Z" — doubted "Huntington" manuscript)
    • Reprints:
      • "To One in Paradise"  (November 26, 1845 — New-York Daily Tribune)
      • "To One in Paradise"  (November 29, 1845 — New-York Weekly Tribune)
      • "To One in Paradise"  (January 10, 1846  — Western Literary Messenger, Buffalo, NY) (Reprinted from RAOP)
      • "To One in Paradise"  (November 10, 1849 — Home Journal) (prints only the 3rd stanza)
      • "To One in Paradise"  (May 1850 — Boston Ladies' Repository, Boston, MA) (prints only the 1st stanza)
      • "To One in Paradise"  (October 9, 1850 — Journal of Commerce, New York) (prints only the 1st stanza)
      • "To One in Paradise"  (October 11, 1850 — Boston Daily Evening Transcript, Boston, MA) (prints only the 1st stanza, reprinted from Journal of Commerce)
      • "To One in Paradise"  (October 15, 1850 — Rochester Democrat, Rochester, NY) (prints only the 1st stanza, reprinted from Journal of Commerce)
      • "To One in Paradise"  (October 19, 1850 — Examiner, Richmond, VA) (prints only the 1st stanza)
      • "To One in Paradise"  (November 9, 1850 — Christian Freeman Family Visitor, Concord, NH) (prints only the 1st stanza)  (reprinted from Journal of Commerce)
  • To The River —
    • Manuscripts, Authorized or Significant Printings:
      • "In an Album. — To the River — —"  (1828, text "A" — manuscript)
      • "To the River ——"  (1829, text "B" — ATMP)
      • "To the River — —"  (August 1839, text "C" — Burton's)
      • "To the River — —"   (February 25, 1843 — Saturday Museum)  (no surviving copies located)
      • "To the River — —"  (March 4, 1843, text "D" — Saturday Museum) (from February 25, 1843)
      • "To the River — —"  (1845, text "E" — manuscript changes in ATMP in preparation for RAOP)
      • "To the River — —"  (September 6, 1845, text "F" — Broadway Journal)
      • "To the River ——"   (1845, text "G" — RAOP)
      • "To the River ——"   (1850, text "H" — WORKS)




~~ U ~~

  • Ulalume
    • Manuscripts, Authorized or Significant Printings:
      • "[Ballad of Ulalume]"  (about October, 1847 — "Bronson" manuscript, now lost and text not recorded) (see Poe Log, pp. 705 and 707)
      • "To — — —. Ulalume: A Ballad"  (December 1847, text "A" — American Review)
      • "Ulalume: A Ballad"  (January 1, 1848, text "B" — Home Journal)
      • "Ulalume — A Ballad"  (November 22, 1848, text "C" — Providence Journal)
      • "Ulalume. A Ballad"  (March 3, 1849, text "D" — Literary World)
      • "Ulalume"  (@ June 1849, text "E" — lines 30-38 only, "Griswold" manuscript)
      • "Ulalume — A Ballad"  (Late 1849, text "F" — Poets and Poetry of America, 10th edition, dated 1850)
      • "Ulalume"   (1850, text "G" — WORKS)
      • "Ulalume"  (1850, text "H" — lines 30-38 only in article about H. B. Hirst, WORKS)
      • "Ulalume — A Ballad"  (@ August 1849, text "J" — Richmond Examiner proofsheets)
      • "Ulalume — A Ballad"  (1849, text "K" — "Ingram" manuscript)
    • Reprints:
      • "Ulalume"  (January 22, 1848 — Saturday Courier)  (reprinted from the Home Journal)
      • "Ulalume"  (September 8, 1849 — Portland Transcript)
      • "Ulalume"   (October 17, 1849 — Oquawka Spectator)
      • "Ulalume"   (October 17, 1849 — Louisville Daily Journal, Louisville, KY)  (only a few stanzas)
    • Translations:
      • "[Ulalume]" (1857 — "Edgar Allan Poe," Magazin für die Literatur des Auslandes, 131:522-524.)  (German translation by Luise von Ploennis.)




~~ V ~~

  • A Valentine
    • Manuscripts, Authorized or Significant Printings:
      • "To — — —"    (February 13, 1846, text "A" — "Poe" manuscript)
      • "To ——"    (February 14, 1846, text "B" — "Griswold/Sergeant" manuscript)
      • "To Her Whose Name is Written Below"   (February 21, 1846, text "C" — Evening Mirror)
      • "A Valentine"  (February 1848, text "D" — revised "Griswold/Sargent" manuscript)
      • "A Valentine"  (March 1849, text "E" — Sartain's)
      • "A Valentine"  (March 3, 1849, text "F" — Flag of Our Union)
      • "A Valentine"   (1850, text "G" — WORKS)
    • Reprints:
      • "A Valentine"  (March 3, 1849 — Portland Transcript)  (reprinted from Sartain's)
      • "A Riddle for Somebody to Unriddle"  (March 20, 1849 — Evening Mirror (New York))
  • The Valley of Unrest
    • Authorized or Significant Printings:








Note:


Details on a number of German translations were graciously provided by Roger Forclaz.




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Bibliography:
  • Campbell, Killis, ed., The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, Boston: Ginn and Company, 1917.
  • Edsall, Thomas, ed., The Poe Catalogue, Baltimore: The 19th Century Shop, 1992. (This catalogue includes a few reprints of material which are not noted elsewhere.)
  • Griswold, Rufus Wilmot, ed., The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe: Volume II - Poems and Miscellanies, New York: J. S. Redfield, 1850.
  • Harrison, James A., ed., The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Volume VII - Poems, New York: T. Y. Crowell, 1902. (Reprinted by New York: AMS Press, 1965.) (This edition includes several poems which are no longer attributed to Poe.)
  • Heartman, Charles F. and James R. Canny, A Bilbiography of First Printings of the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Hattiesburg, MS: The Book Farm, 1943. (The best overall bibliography of Poe, although it does contain errors and is somewhat outdated.)
  • Ljungquist, Kent P., "Poe's 'Al Aaraaf' and the Boston Lyceum: Contributions to Primary and Secondary Bibliography," Victorian Periodicals Review (Fall 1995), 28:199-216.
  • Ljungquist, Kent P., "Some Unrecorded Reprints of Poe's Works," ANQ, Winter 1995, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 20-22.
  • Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Volume 1 - Poems, Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1969. (Second printing 1979.) (This is the definitive edition of Poe's Poems. Many of the more obscure items are available only in this collection, which also contains extensive notes.)
  • Poe, Edgar Allan, Tamerlane and Other Poems, Boston: Calvin F. Thomas, 1827. (Facsimile reprint by T. O. Mabbott, ed., New York: Facsimile Text Society, 1941. There are also other facsimiles of this edition, some of which may be mistaken for an original.)
  • Poe, Edgar Allan, Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane, and Minor Poems, Baltimore: Hatch and Dunning, 1829. (Facsimile reprint by T. O. Mabbott, ed., New York: Facsimile Text Society, 1933.)
  • Poe, Edgar Allan, Poems, New York: Elam Bliss, 1831. (Facsimile reprint by Campbell, Killis, ed., New York: Facsimile Text Society, 1936.)
  • Poe, Edgar Allan, The Raven and Other Poems, New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1845. (Facsimile reprint by T. O. Mabbott, ed., New York: Facsimile Text Society, 1942.)
  • Pollin, Burton R., "A Posthumous Assessment: The 1849-1850 Periodical Press Response to Edgar Allan Poe," American Periodicals, Fall 1992, pp. 6-50.
  • Quinn, Patrick F., ed, Poetry and Tales, New York: The Library of America, 1978. (A good basic collection, although there are errors in some of the texts.)
  • Stovall, Floyd, ed., The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, Charlottesville: The University of Virginia Press, 1965. (A fine collection, second only to Mabbott's.)
  • Whitty, James H., ed., The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911. (Revised and expanded in 1917.) (This edition contains several poems which are no longer attributed to Poe.)



 
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