Friday, October 26, 2012

Edgar Allan Poe

A fascinating, intelligent, tragic guy. Its as though he were writing the original scripts for 'Criminal Minds.'

 
 The Writings of Edgar Allan Poe: The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore

Also other images.

http://www.eapoe.org/ 

Edgar Allan Poe
Lesson plans, biography, and teaching resources

http://www.webenglishteacher.com/poe.html

Edgar Allan Poe, short stories, tales, and poems 

poestories.com/

Contains Poe's works, story summaries, quotes, Poe wordlist with definitions, photos and paintings.
The Raven illustrated by Manet.

The Poetry Foundation has a biography about Poe worth reading, as well as articles and poems. Thanks again, Poetry Foundation.

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/edgar-allan-poe?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Poetryfoundationorg+Newsletter&utm_content=Poetryfoundationorg+Newsletter+CID_361b8d5dd6a63ad29a2e2e410b8a0ead&utm_source=Campaign%20Monitor&utm_term=Poetry%20of%20Edgar%20Allan%20Poe#about
 
Here is a lesser known poem by Poe; what a cry for help.

A Dream Within a Dream

By Edgar Allan Poe
 

Edgar Allan Poe

1809–1849
Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow —
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand —
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep — while I weep!
O God! Can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?
 

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