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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe

by Edgar Allan Poe

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Year Published: 1903
Language: English
Country of Origin: United States of America
Source: Poe, E.A. (1903). The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition, Volume 5. New York: P. F. Collier and Son.

Readability:
- Flesch–Kincaid Level: 2.4
Word Count: 154

Genre: Poetry
Keywords: memory, nature, peace
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Beloved! amid the earnest woes
         That crowd around my earthly path—
     (Drear path, alas! where grows
     Not even one lonely rose)—
         My soul at least a solace hath
     In dreams of thee, and therein knows
     An Eden of bland repose.

     And thus thy memory is to me
         Like some enchanted far-off isle
     In some tumultuos sea—
     Some ocean throbbing far and free
         With storms—but where meanwhile
     Serenest skies continually
         Just o're that one bright island smile.