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THE

COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS

OF

EDGAR ALLAN POE

BY JOHN H. INGRAM

PREFACE.

In placing before the public this collection of Edgar Poe's poetical works, it is requisite to point out in what respects it differs from, and is superior to, the numerous collections which have preceded it. Until recently, all editions, whether American or English, of Poe's poems have been 'verbatim' reprints of the first posthumous collection, published at New York in 1850.

In 1874 I began drawing attention to the fact that unknown and unreprinted poetry by Edgar Poe was in existence. Most, if not all, of the specimens issued in my articles have since been reprinted by different editors and publishers, but the present is the first occasion on which all the pieces referred to have been garnered into one sheaf. Besides the poems thus alluded to, this volume will be found to contain many additional pieces and extra stanzas, nowhere else published or included in Poe's works. Such verses have been gathered from printed or manuscript sources during a research extending over many years.

In addition to the new poetical matter included in this volume, attention should, also, be solicited on behalf of the notes, which will be found to contain much matter, interesting both from biographical and bibliographical points of view.

JOHN H. INGRAM.

CONTENTS.

MEMOIR

POEMS OF LATER LIFE:

Dedication

Preface

The Raven

The Bells

Ulalume

To Helen

Annabel Lee

A Valentine

An Enigma

To my Mother

For Annie

To F----

To Frances S. Osgood

Eldorado

Eulalie

A Dream within a Dream

To Marie Louise (Shew)

To the Same

The City in the Sea

The Sleeper,

Bridal Ballad
Notes

POEMS OF MANHOOD:

Lenore

To one in Paradise

The Coliseum

The Haunted Palace

The Conqueror Worm

Silence

Dreamland

To Zante

Hymn
Notes

SCENES FROM "POLITIAN"
Note

POEMS OF YOUTH:

Introduction (1831)

To Science

Al Aaraaf

Tamerlane

To Helen

The Valley of Unrest

Israfel

To----("I heed not that my earthly lot")

		All that is not eternal is eternally out of date. Clive Staples Lewis