National Poetry Month: 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 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?