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Text: Edgar Allan Poe, "To — —," Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems, 1829, p. 62





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3.
 
TO — —
 
1

The bowers whereat, in dreams, I see
    The wantonest singing birds
Are lips — and all thy melody
    Of lip-begotten words —

2

Thine eyes, in Heaven of heart enshrin'd
    Then desolately fall,
O! God! on my funereal mind
    Like starlight on a pall —

3

Thy heart — thy heart! — I wake and sigh,
    And sleep to dream till day
Of truth that gold can never buy —
    Of the trifles that it may.









Notes:

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