The Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Eldorado
by Edgar Allan Poe
"Gaily bedight,"
"Gaily bedight,"
"On a summer’s day as I sat by a stream,"
Long years ago, within a distant clime,
"Oh, who would be sad tho’ the sky be a–graying,"
This poem relays the feelings of what might have been and mistakes made in the past (in rhyme scheme).
My love is strengthened though more weak in seeming
A poem describing “The Fall of the Year” or Autumn.
"The mist has left the greening plain,"
"Lay me down beneaf de willers in de grass,"
"Oh, wind of the spring–time, oh, free wind of May,"
Longfellow’s poem describing someone troubled confessing to a clergyman
On Mrs. W–––––'s Voyage to England.
"I stand above the city’s rush and din,"
"Good hunting!—aye, good hunting,"
A child plays with furniture and imagination.
"Like the blush upon the rose"
Thy tones are silver melted into sound,
"My neighbor lives on the hill,"
Nature and the movement of clouds at dusk ignite the author's imagination.
SOON as the sun forsook the eastern main
"Thank Heaven! the crisis—"
After telling Mistress Crow how much he admires her, Master Fox is able to trick her into dropping her meal. Master Fox snaps it up and eats it. Mistress Crow learns a hard lesson about insincere compliments.
"Heel and toe, heel and toe,"
"Ther’ ain’t no use in all this strife,"
"If the muse were mine to tempt it"