Poem by Edgar Allan Poe

M

MichMorgan

New member
"The Happiest Day"

The happiest day -- the happiest hour

My sear'd and blighted heart hath known,

The highest hope of pride and power,

I feel hath flown.

Of power! said I? yes! such I ween;

But they have vanish'd long, alas!

The visions of my youth have been-

But let them pass.

And, pride, what have I now with thee?

Another brow may even inherit

The venom thou hast pour'd on me

Be still, my spirit!

The happiest day -- the happiest hour

Mine eyes shall see -- have ever seen,

The brightest glance of pride and power,

I feel- have been:

But were that hope of pride and power

Now offer'd with the pain

Even then I felt -- that brightest hour

I would not live again:

For on its wing was dark alloy,

And, as it flutter'd -- fell

An essence -- powerful to destroy

A soul that knew it well.

by Edgar Allan Poe

--------------------

"If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one."

"We can do no great things, only small things with great love."

Inspirational Quotes by Mother Teresa, 1910-1997, Albanian-born Humanitarian and Missionary

 
Romance

Romance, who loves to nod and sing,

With drowsy head and folded wing,

Among the green leaves as they shake

Far down within some shadowy lake,

To me a painted paroquet

Hath been- a most familiar bird-

Taught me my alphabet to say-

To lisp my very earliest word

While in the wild wood I did lie,

A child- with a most knowing eye.

Of late, eternal Condor years

So shake the very Heaven on high

With tumult as they thunder by,

I have no time for idle cares

Through gazing on the unquiet sky.

And when an hour with calmer wings

Its down upon my spirit flings-

That little time with lyre and rhyme

To while away- forbidden things!

My heart would feel to be a crime

Unless it trembled with the strings.

by Edgar Allan Poe

--------------------

"If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one."

"We can do no great things, only small things with great love."

Inspirational Quotes by Mother Teresa, 1910-1997, Albanian-born Humanitarian and Missionary

 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top