Lenore

"Wretches! ye loved her for her wealth and hated her for her pride,
"And when she fell in feeble health, ye blessed her-that she died!
"How shall the ritual, then, be read?-the requiem how be sung
"By you-by yours, the evil eye,-by yours, the slanderous tongue
"That did to death the innocent that died, and died so young?"

Peccavimus; but rave not thus! and let a Sabbath song
Go up to God so solemnly the dead may feel so wrong!
The sweet Lenore hath "gone before," with Hope, that flew beside
Leaving thee wild for the dear child that should have been thy bride-
For her, the fair and debonair, that now so lowly lies,
The life upon her yellow hair but not within her eyes-
The life still there, upon her hair-the death upon her eyes.

"Avaunt! to-night my heart is light. No dirge will I upraise,
"But waft the angel on her flight with a Paean of old days!
"Let no bell toll!-lest her sweet soul, amid its hallowed mirth,
"Should catch the note, as it doth float-up from the damned Earth.
"To friends above, from fiends below, the indignant ghost is riven-
"From Hell unto a high estate far up within the Heaven-
"From grief and groan, to a golden throne, beside the King of Heaven."

Lenore.

An ameteur adaptation of the Poe poem.

"Lenore" by Edgar allan Poe.

Tales

Berenice
The Black Cat
The Cask of Amontillado
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Gold-Bug
Hop-Frog
Ligeia
The Man of the Crowd
The Masque of the Red Death
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Purloined Letter
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Oblong Box
The Premature Burial
The Oval Portrait

Poetry

A Dream within a Dream
Annabel Lee
The Bells
The City in the Sea
The Conqueror Worm
Eldorado
The Haunted Palace
Lenore
The Raven
Ulalume