The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 1


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EDGAR ALLAN POE  
AN APPRECIATION  
Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful Disaster  
Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore--  
Till the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore  
Of "never--never more!"  
THIS stanza from "The Raven" was recommended by James Russell Lowell as  
an inscription upon the Baltimore monument which marks the resting place  
of Edgar Allan Poe, the most interesting and original figure in American  
letters. And, to signify that peculiar musical quality of Poe's genius  
which inthralls every reader, Mr. Lowell suggested this additional  
verse, from the "Haunted Palace":  
And all with pearl and ruby glowing  
Was the fair palace door,  
Through which came flowing, flowing, flowing,  
And sparkling ever more,  
A troop of Echoes, whose sweet duty  
Was but to sing,  
In voices of surpassing beauty,  
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