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Topic: "Dream-Land" by Edgar Allen Poe
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Valus
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posted August 13, 2010 03:15 AM
 
By a route obscure and lonely,
Haunted by ill angels only,
Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT,
On a black throne reigns upright,
I have reached these lands but newly
From an ultimate dim Thule—
From a wild weird clime that lieth, sublime,
Out of SPACE—Out of TIME.Bottomless vales and boundless floods,
And chasms, and caves, and Titan woods,
With forms that no man can discover
For the tears that drip all over;
Mountains toppling evermore
Into seas without a shore;
Seas that restlessly aspire,
Surging, unto skies of fire;
Lakes that endlessly outspread
Their lone waters—lone and dead,—
Their still waters—still and chilly
With the snows of the lolling lily. By the lakes that thus outspread
Their lone waters, one and dead,—
Their sad waters, sad and chilly
With the snows of the lolling lily,—
By the mountains—near the river
Murmuring lowly, murmuring ever,—
By the gray woods,—by the swamp
Where the toad and the newt encamp,—
By the dismal tarns and pools
Where dwell the Ghouls,—
By each spot the most unholy—
In each nook most melancholy,—
There the traveler meets, aghast,
Sheeted Memories of the Past—
Shrouded forms that start and sigh
As they pass the wanderer by—
White-robed forms of friends long given,
In agony, to the Earth—and Heaven. For the heart whose woes are legion
’T is a peaceful, soothing region—
For the spirit that walks in shadow
’T is—oh, ’t is an Eldorado!
But the traveler, traveling through it,
May not—dare not openly view it;
Never its mysteries are exposed
To the weak human eye unclosed;
So wills its King, who hath forbid
The uplifting of the frigid lid;
And thus the sad Soul that here passes
Beholds it but through darkened glasses. By a route obscure and lonely,
Haunted by ill angels only,
Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT,
On a black throne reigns upright,
I have wandered home but newly
From this ultimate dim Thule.
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LEXX
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posted August 13, 2010 08:03 PM
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juniperb
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posted August 16, 2010 06:56 PM
Lordy but I love Poe... thanks Valus!------------------
What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world is immortal"~ - George Eliot IP: Logged |
Valus
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posted August 17, 2010 12:42 AM
You're welcome.  Sorry I misspelled his middle name (Allan). IP: Logged |
WinkAway
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posted August 18, 2010 07:13 PM
Amazing... thanks for sharing 
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juniperb
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posted August 18, 2010 08:12 PM
I wasn`t going to critique; I`m just happy to read the poem and see a fellow Poe fan.------------------
What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world is immortal"~ - George Eliot IP: Logged |
hippichick
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posted August 19, 2010 04:20 PM
i am a huge poe fan and ashamedly, i missed this one!!thanks!!! gunna go and get out the books again. t~~~ IP: Logged |
hippichick
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posted August 19, 2010 04:22 PM
i am a huge poe fan and ashamedly, i missed this one!!thanks!!! gunna go and get out the books again. t~~~ IP: Logged |
hippichick
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posted August 19, 2010 04:23 PM
shame on me for missin this one...a huge poe fan, am i! thanks t~~~ IP: Logged | |
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