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Thus by some one among those holy spirits Was spoken, and by Beatrice: "Speak, speak Securely, and believe them even as Gods.""Well I perceive how thou dost nest thyself In thine own light, and drawest it from thine eyes, Because they coruscate when thou dost smile,But know not who thou art, nor why tho...
By not enduring on the power that wills Curb for his good, that man who ne'er was born, Damning himself damned all his progeny;Whereby the human species down below Lay sick for many centuries in great error, Till to descend it pleased the Word of GodTo where the nature, which from its own Maker Estr...
Not through Typhoeus, but through nascent sulphur, Would have awaited her own monarchs still, Through me from Charles descended and from Rudolph,If evil lordship, that exasperates ever The subject populations, had not moved Palermo to the outcry of 'Death! death!'And if my brother could but this foresee...
Here we behold the art that doth adorn With such affection, and the good discover Whereby the world above turns that below.But that thou wholly satisfied mayst bear Thy wishes hence which in this sphere are born, Still farther to proceed behoveth me.Thou fain wouldst know who is within this light Th...
And one in theft, and one in state affairs, One in the pleasures of the flesh involved Wearied himself, one gave himself to ease;When I, from all these things emancipate, With Beatrice above there in the Heavens With such exceeding glory was received!When each one had returned unto that point Within...
Therein was born the amorous paramour Of Christian Faith, the athlete consecrate, Kind to his own and cruel to his foes;And when it was created was his mind Replete with such a living energy, That in his mother her it made prophetic.As soon as the espousals were complete Between him and the Faith at...
'Non si est dare primum motum esse,' Or if in semicircle can be made Triangle so that it have no right angle.Whence, if thou notest this and what I said, A regal prudence is that peerless seeing In which the shaft of my intention strikes.And if on 'rose' thou turnest thy clear eyes, Thou'lt see that...
'Tis well that without end he should lament, Who for the love of thing that doth not last Eternally despoils him of that love!As through the pure and tranquil evening air There shoots from time to time a sudden fire, Moving the eyes that steadfast were before,And seems to be a star that changeth place, ...
All those who at that time were there between Mars and the Baptist, fit for bearing arms, Were a fifth part of those who now are living;But the community, that now is mixed With Campi and Certaldo and Figghine, Pure in the lowest artisan was seen.O how much better 'twere to have as neighbours The fo...
Not yet the people are aware of him Through his young age, since only nine years yet Around about him have these wheels revolved.But ere the Gascon cheat the noble Henry, Some sparkles of his virtue shall appear In caring not for silver nor for toil.So recognized shall his magnificence Become hereaf...
Once 'twas the custom to make war with swords; But now 'tis made by taking here and there The bread the pitying Father shuts from none.Yet thou, who writest but to cancel, think That Peter and that Paul, who for this vineyard Which thou art spoiling died, are still alive!Well canst thou say: "So steadfa...
There it became a voice, and issued thence From out its beak, in such a form of words As the heart waited for wherein I wrote them."The part in me which sees and bears the sun In mortal eagles," it began to me, "Now fixedly must needs be looked upon;For of the fires of which I make my figure, Those ...
Nor did more love cause me to be more ready, For love as much and more up there is burning, As doth the flaming manifest to thee.But the high charity, that makes us servants Prompt to the counsel which controls the world, Allotteth here, even as thou dost observe.""I see full well," said I, "O sacred la...
O glorious stars, O light impregnated With mighty virtue, from which I acknowledge All of my genius, whatsoe'er it be,With you was born, and hid himself with you, He who is father of all mortal life, When first I tasted of the Tuscan air;And then when grace was freely given to me To enter the high w...
If by the grace of God this man foretaste Something of that which falleth from your table, Or ever death prescribe to him the time,Direct your mind to his immense desire, And him somewhat bedew; ye drinking are For ever at the fount whence comes his thought."Thus Beatrice; and those souls beatified ...
"Lift up thy head, and make thyself assured; For what comes hither from the mortal world Must needs be ripened in our radiance."This comfort came to me from the second fire; Wherefore mine eyes I lifted to the hills, Which bent them down before with too great weight."Since, through his grace, our Empero...
And said my Lady: "There within those rays Gazes upon its Maker the first soul That ever the first virtue did create."Even as the bough that downward bends its top At transit of the wind, and then is lifted By its own virtue, which inclines it upward,Likewise did I, the while that she was speaking, ...
Fidelity and innocence are found Only in children; afterwards they both Take flight or e'er the cheeks with down are covered.One, while he prattles still, observes the fasts, Who, when his tongue is loosed, forthwith devours Whatever food under whatever moon;Another, while he prattles, loves and listens...
Order was con-created and constructed In substances, and summit of the world Were those wherein the pure act was produced.Pure potentiality held the lowest part; Midway bound potentiality with act Such bond that it shall never be unbound.Jerome has written unto you of angels Created a long lapse of ...
And added: "The river and the topazes Going in and out, and the laughing of the herbage, Are of their truth foreshadowing prefaces;Not that these things are difficult in themselves, But the deficiency is on thy side, For yet thou hast not vision so exalted."There is no babe that leaps so suddenly Wi...
I lifted up mine eyes, and as at morn The oriental part of the horizon Surpasses that wherein the sun goes down,Thus, as if going with mine eyes from vale To mount, I saw a part in the remoteness Surpass in splendour all the other front.And even as there where we await the pole That Phaeton drove ba...
In thee compassion is, in thee is pity, In thee magnificence; in thee unites Whate'er of goodness is in any creature.Now doth this man, who from the lowest depth Of the universe as far as here has seen One after one the spiritual lives,Supplicate thee through grace for so much power That with his ey...
I Lift mine eyes, and all the windows blaze With forms of saints and holy men who died, Here martyred and hereafter glorified; And the great Rose upon its leaves displays Christ's Triumph, and the angelic roundelays, With splendor upon splendor multiplied; And Beatrice again at Dante's side No m...
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Having been directed by a superb young clerk, who parted his hair in the middle, to "just stand out of the passage-way and amuse yourself with one of our Schedules for awhile," until the great life-Agent should come in, the Gospeler read a few schedulistic pages, proving, that if a person had his life Insured at the ag...
"I reckon it will, in time," returned the youth, moodily. "I suppose you know that my sister is determined to come here and stay with me?""Yes, MONTGOMERY, I have heard of her noble resolution. May her conversation prove sustaining to you.""There will be enough of it, I reckon, to sustain half a dozen people," was the ...
and give up all personal interest in the homogeneous relations arising from too precipitate a ratiocination of events, urging, at the same time, the positive proportions exercised in the administration of a not over particular dormitory, and the replication of chameleonizing--constantly chameleonizing, odoriferosities....
For reasons which the accompanying view may render obvious, Mr. P. and his men declined the invitation of the picnickers to stop and join them. The boat continued on until it reached the channel between islands No. 87 and No. 88, and there Mr. P. got out his lines and commenced to fish, trolling his bait behind as the ...
Well, it is something to be credited with having decent men about you; perhaps if _The Sun_ would try the experiment it would be found more purifying than even the sermons of O. DYER.* * * * *WHY IT IS SO DRY.We _thought_ it had something to do with a lack of moisture in the air; and now, along ...
When a fat man laffs, his little head sinks down into his shirt collar, and disappears in the fat, like a turtle's head when you tickle his nose with a sharp stick.And then to see them eat clams. I've seen men punish clams by the bushel--by the barrel--but never did I see men shovel clams in by the cart load before."Ge...
It was at first thought that H.S.H. would accede to the Emperor's request, his recent treaty with the Court of the _Grande Duchesse_ and his diplomatic relations with the Viennoise Ballet Troupe having rendered the event far from improbable. It was also considered that the hostility which he has openly displayed toward...
6. Fill your head with classical quotations, and trot them out on all occasions, whether discussing a bill for the diffusion of beans among the Indians, or the Alabama claims.7. Smoke many costly Havana cigars.This rule has been lately discovered.8. Get some one to write a history of CAESAR for you, or an account of a ...
Oh, the going back, after that! in the same loathed costume, inwardly justifying the laughter of the knowing loungers as you ascend among them, and cursing yourself as the chief among ten thousand (ninnies,)--the one altogether idiotic.Except for this enormous swindle, dear P., I should have enjoyed Niagara, and Niagar...
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The Complete Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poeedited byJohn H. IngramPREFACE.In placing before the public this collection of Edgar Poe's poetical works, it is requisite to point out in what respects it differs from, and is superior to, the numerous collections which have preceded it. Until r...
"a swift runner, a wonderful leaper, and, what was more rare, a boxer, with some slight training.... He would allow the strongest boy in the school to strike him with full force in the chest. He taught me the secret, and I imitated him, after my measure. It was to inflate the lungs to the uttermost, and at the ...
When Edgar was unhappy at home, which, says his aunt, Mrs. Clemm, "was very often the case, he went to Mrs. Stannard for sympathy, for consolation, and for advice." Unfortunately, the sad fortune which so frequently thwarted his hopes ended this friendship. The lady was overwhelmed by a terrible calamity, and at the pe...
This appears to have been Poe's last night at the university. He left it never to return, yet, short as was his sojourn there, he left behind him such honorable memories that his 'alma mater' is now only too proud to enrol his name among her most respected sons. Poe's adopted father, however, did not regard his 'protég...
Poe worked hard at the 'Gentleman's' for some time, contributing to its columns much of his best work; ultimately, however, he came to loggerheads with its proprietor, Burton, who disposed of the magazine to a Mr. Graham, a rival publisher. At this period Poe collected into two volumes, and got them published as 'Tales...
During his calmer moments Poe exerted all his efforts to proceed with his literary labors. He continued to contribute to 'Graham's Magazine,' the proprietor of which periodical remained his friend to the end of his life, and also to some other leading publications of Philadelphia and New York. A suggestion having been ...
These trifles are collected and republished chiefly with a view to their redemption from the many improvements to which they have been subjected while going at random the "rounds of the press." I am naturally anxious that what I have written should circulate as I wrote it, if it circulate at all. In defence of my own t...
Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden bells! What a world of happiness their harmony foretells! Through the balmy air of night How they ring out their delight! From the molten golden-notes, And all in tune, What a liquid ditty floats To the turtle-dove that listens, while she gloats On the moon! Oh,...
I saw thee once--once only--years ago: I must not say _how_ many--but _not_ many. It was a July midnight; and from out A full-orbed moon, that, like thine own soul, soaring, Sought a precipitate pathway up through heaven, There fell a silvery-silken veil of light, With quietude, and sultriness and slumber, ...
And I rest so composedly, Now in my bed, That any beholder Might fancy me dead-- Might start at beholding me Thinking me dead.The moaning and groaning, The sighing and sobbing, Are quieted now, With that horrible throbbing At heart:--ah, that horrible, Horrible throbbing!The sickness--th...
Not long ago, the writer of these lines, In the mad pride of intellectuality, Maintained "the power of words"--denied that ever A thought arose within the human brain Beyond the utterance of the human tongue: And now, as if in mockery of that boast, Two words--two foreign soft dissyllables-- Italian tones...
["The following lines from a correspondent--besides the deep, quaint strain of the sentiment, and the curious introduction of some ludicrous touches amidst the serious and impressive, as was doubtless intended by the author--appears to us one of the most felicitous specimens of unique rhyming which has for some...
"To M----L----S----," addressed to Mrs. Marie Louise Shew, was written in February 1847, and published shortly afterwards. In the first posthumous collection of Poe's poems these lines were, for some reason, included in the "Poems written in Youth," and amongst those poems they have hitherto been included.* * ...
But evil things, in robes of sorrow, Assailed the monarch's high estate. (Ah, let us mourn!--for never morrow Shall dawn upon him desolate !) And round about his home the glory That blushed and bloomed, Is but a dim-remembered story Of the old time entombed.And travellers, now, within that valley,...
The sonnet, "Silence," was originally published in Burton's 'Gentleman's Magazine' for April, 1840.* * * * 26. DREAMLANDThe first known publication of "Dreamland" was in 'Graham's Magazine' for June, 1844. * * * *37. TO ZANTEThe "Sonnet to Zante" is not discoverable...
_Lal_. What didst thou say, Jacinta? Now I bethink me Thou hast not spoken lately of thy wedding. How fares good Ugo?--and when is it to be? Can I do aught?--is there no further aid Thou needest, Jacinta?_Jac_. (_aside_.) Is there no _fu...
_Voice_ (_very faintly_). "And is thy heart so strong [1] As for to leave me thus, That have loved thee so long, In wealth and woe among? And is thy heart so strong As for to leave me thus? Say nay! say nay!"_Bal...
_Lal_. (_after a pause_). And--he--shall--die!--alas! Castiglione die? Who spoke the words? Where am I?--what was it he said?--Politian! Thou _art_ not gone--thou art not _gone_, Politian! I _feel_ thou art not gone--yet dare not look, ...
_Castiglione_. Indeed. I hardly know myself. Stay! Was it not On yesterday we were speaking of the Earl? Of the Earl Politian? Yes! it was yesterday. Alessandra, you and I, you must remember! We were walking in the garden._Duke...
"I mentioned just now a vulgar error as regards criticism. I think the notion that no poet can form a correct estimate of his own writings is another. I remarked before that in proportion to the poetical talent would be the justice of a critique upon poetry. Therefore a bad poet would, I grant, make a false critique, a...
"Now, we have no doubt this is all true: we _will_ believe it, indeed we will, Mr, W. Is it sympathy for the sheep you wish to excite? I love a sheep from the bottom of my heart."But there are occasions, dear B----, there are occasions when even Wordsworth is reasonable. Even Stamboul, it is said, shall have an end, an...
All hurriedly she knelt upon a bed Of flowers: of lilies such as rear'd the head On the fair Capo Deucato [2], and sprang So eagerly around about to hang Upon the flying footsteps of--deep pride-- Of her who lov'd a mortal--and so died [3]. The Sephalica, budding with young bees, Uprear'd its purple stem ...
Young flowers were whispering in melody [21] To happy flowers that night--and tree to tree; Fountains were gushing music as they fell In many a star-lit grove, or moon-light dell; Yet silence came upon material things-- Fair flowers, bright waterfalls and angel wings-- And sound alone that from the spirit s...
Thus in discourse, the lovers whiled away The night that waned and waned and brought no day. They fell: for Heaven to them no hope imparts Who hear not for the beating of their hearts.1839.[Footnote 1: A star was discovered by Tycho Brahe which appeared suddenly in the heavens--attained, in a few days, a brillian...
Know thou the secret of a spirit Bowed from its wild pride into shame O yearning heart! I did inherit Thy withering portion with the fame, The searing glory which hath shone Amid the Jewels of my throne, Halo of Hell! and with a pain Not Hell shall make me fear again-- O craving heart, for the lost flow...
What tho' the moon--tho' the white moon Shed all the splendor of her noon, _Her_ smile is chilly--and _her_ beam, In that time of dreariness, will seem (So like you gather in your breath) A portrait taken after death. And boyhood is a summer sun Whose waning is the dreariest one-- For all we live to kno...
Thy soul shall find itself alone 'Mid dark thoughts of the gray tombstone Not one, of all the crowd, to pry Into thine hour of secrecy. Be silent in that solitude Which is not loneliness--for then The spirits of the dead who stood In life before thee are again In death around thee--and their will ...
Oh! that my young life were a lasting dream! My spirit not awakening, till the beam Of an Eternity should bring the morrow. Yes! though that long dream were of hopeless sorrow, 'Twere better than the cold reality Of waking life, to him whose heart must be, And hath been still, upon the lovely earth, A cha...
For being an idle boy lang syne, Who read Anacreon and drank wine, I early found Anacreon rhymes Were almost passionate sometimes-- And by strange alchemy of brain His pleasures always turned to pain-- His naïveté to wild desire-- His wit to love--his wine to fire-- And so, being young and dipt in folly...
Of the many verses from time to time ascribed to the pen of Edgar Poe, and not included among his known writings, the lines entitled "Alone" have the chief claim to our notice. 'Fac-simile' copies of this piece had been in possession of the present editor some time previous to its publication in 'Scribner's Magazine' f...
So blended bank and shadow there, That each seemed pendulous in air--so mirror-like was the glassy water, that it was scarcely possible to say at what point upon the slope of the emerald turf its crystal dominion began. My position enabled me to include in a single view both the eastern and western extremities of the...
I can comprehend you thus far--that certain operations of what we term Nature, or the natural laws, will, under certain conditions, give rise to that which has all the _appearance_ of creation. Shortly before the final overthrow of the earth, there were, I well remember, many very successful experiments in what...
One word first, my Una, in regard to man's general condition at this epoch. You will remember that one or two of the wise among our forefathers--wise in fact, although not in the world's esteem--had ventured to doubt the propriety of the term "improvement," as applied to the progress of our civilization. There ...
I breathed no longer. The pulses were still. The heart had ceased to beat. Volition had not departed, but was powerless. The senses were unusually active, although eccentrically so--assuming often each other's functions at random. The taste and the smell were inextricably confounded, and became one sentiment, a...
A year passed. The consciousness of _being_ had grown hourly more indistinct, and that of mere _locality_ had in great measure usurped its position. The idea of entity was becoming merged in that of _place_. The narrow space immediately surrounding what had been the body was now growing to be the body itself. A...
The elements of the strange orb were immediately calculated, and it was at once conceded by all observers that its path, at perihelion would bring it into very close proximity with the earth. There were two or three astronomers of secondary note who resolutely maintained that a contact was inevitable. I cannot ...
The year had been a year of terror, and of feeling more intense than terror for which there is no name upon the earth. For many prodigies and signs had taken place, and far and wide, over sea and land, the black wings of the Pestilence were spread abroad. To those, nevertheless, cunning in the stars, it was not unknown...
"And I looked upwards, and there stood a man upon the summit of the rock; and I hid myself among the water-lilies that I might discover the action of the man. And the man was tall and stately in form, and wrapped up from his shoulders to his feet in the toga of old Rome. And the outlines of his figure were indistinct--...
That the extent of a poetical work is _ceteris paribus_, the measure of its merit, seems undoubtedly, when we thus state it, a proposition sufficiently absurd--yet we are indebted for it to the Quarterly Reviews. Surely there can be nothing in mere _size_, abstractly considered--there can be nothing in mere _bulk_, so ...
Dividing the world of mind into its three most immediately obvious distinctions, we have the Pure Intellect, Taste, and the Moral Sense. I place Taste in the middle because it is just this position which in the mind it occupies. It holds intimate relations with either extreme; but from the Moral Sense is separated by s...
The idea of the last quatrain is also very effective. The poem on the whole, however, is chiefly to be admired for the graceful _insouciance_ of its metre, so well in accordance with the character of the sentiments, and especially for the _ease_ of the general manner. This "ease" or naturalness, in a literary style, it...
One of the noblest--and, speaking of Fancy--one of the most singularly fanciful of modern poets, was Thomas Hood. His "Fair Ines" had always for me an inexpressible charm:O saw ye not fair Ines? She's gone into the West, To dazzle when the sun is down And rob the world of rest She took our daylight with her...
From Alfred Tennyson, although in perfect sincerity I regard him as the noblest poet that ever lived, I have left myself time to cite only a very brief specimen. I call him, and _think_ him the noblest of poets, _not_ because the impressions he produces are at _all_ times the most profound--_not_ because the poetical e...
I have often thought how interesting a magazine paper might be written by any author who would--that is to say, who could--detail, step by step, the processes by which any one of his compositions attained its ultimate point of completion. Why such a paper has never been given to the world, I am much at a loss to say--b...
The length, the province, and the tone being thus determined, I betook myself to ordinary induction, with the view of obtaining some artistic piquancy which might serve me as a key-note in the construction of the poem--some pivot upon which the whole structure might turn. In carefully thinking over all the usual artist...
Of course I pretend to no originality in either the rhythm or metre of the "Raven." The former is trochaic--the latter is octametre acatalectic, alternating with heptametre catalectic repeated in the _refrain_ of the fifth verse, and terminating with tetrametre catalectic. Less pedantically, the feet employed throughou...
And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamplight o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor; And my soul _from out that shadow_ that lies floating o...
How truthful an air of lamentations hangs here upon every syllable! It pervades all. It comes over the sweet melody of the words--over the gentleness and grace which we fancy in the little maiden herself--even over the half-playful, half-petulant air with which she lingers on the beauties and good qualities of her favo...
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The latest transient guest at the Roach House--a hotel kept on the entomological plan in Bumsteadville--was a gentleman of such lurid aspect as made every beholder burn to know whom he could possibly be. His enormous head of curled red hair not only presented a central parting on top and a very much one-sided parting a...
"I am referred to your Honor for further particulars," observed Mr. TRACEY CLEWS, bowing again to Judge SWEENEY. "Not to wound our friend further by discussion of the fair sex, may I ask if Bumsteadville contains many objects of interest for a stranger, like myself?""One, at least, sir," answered the Judge. "I think I ...
_Invalid._--To regain strength you should take means to increase the amount of iron in your blood. Bark will do it, which accounts for the fact that the blood of dogs has a large per centage of iron. Here in New York, the ordinary way of getting iron in the blood is to have a knife run into you by the hand of an assass...
Now it happened that one HO RACE GREL HE, being a Prussian, did fall upon PHYSKE and did berate him in a paper, which is called the _Try Buin_. And PHYSKE became very wroth and did stop the sale of the paper, which is called the _Try Buin_, upon his roads. And HO RACE GREL HE, being a Prussian, was sore afraid, and did...
Could anything more melancholy have befallen our poet? He could remember in childhood's merry days the old candy-woman, with her plentiful store of brown sweetness long drawn out; and how himself and companions spent many a pleasant hour teasing their little teeth with the delicate morsels. Now his childhood's dreams v...
[Illustration: AT THE SARATOGA CONVENTION._Horace Greeley, (to Roscoe Conkling.)_ "DON'T BE RASH, NOW REMEMBER THAT A SOFT ANSWER TURNETH AWAY WRATH."_Roscoe Conkling_. "LET US HAVE PEACE, BY ALL MEANS: BUT IF THAT FELLOW REUBE FENTON INTERFERES WITH ME, HE HAD BETTER LOOK OUT THAT I DON'T SMASH HIS SLATE."]* * ...
Hopin' that in the futer, as you grow older, you may lern wisdom by cultivatin' my acquaintance--and with kind regards to UGEEN and bub BONYPART, in your native tung I will say:_Barn-sure, noblesse Pea-cracker._Ewer'n, one and onseperable,HIRAM GREEN, Esq.,_Lait Gustise of the Peece._* * * * *Bu...
"My name, sir, is the Hon. CHARLES AUGUSTUS DANA, Ex-Assistant Secretary of War, Ex-Proprietor of the ablest paper in the West, and at present Chief Editor of the New York _Sun_, price two cents. There is no individual here, sir, answering to the appellation of "Old Hunk," and, as I perceive, sir, that there is a most ...
That Brooklyn is a City of Churches has long been known to people of average intelligence. The following item, however, taken from a daily paper, is very suggestive of the old saying, "The nearer the church," etc."JOHN BEATY bit off WM. HARPER'S face in April last, at a church fight in Brooklyn, and then went to sea. L...
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The exquisitely sweet month of the perfectly delicious summer-vacation having come, Miss CAROWTHERS' Young Ladies have returned again, for a time, to their respective homes, MAGNOLIA PENDRAGON has gone to the city and her brother, and FLORA POTTS is ridiculously and absurdly alone.Under the ardent sun of August, Bumste...

Thus by some one among those holy spirits Was spoken, and by Beatrice: "Speak, speak Securely, and believe them even as Gods.""Well I perceive how thou dost nest thyself In thine own light, and drawest it from thine eyes, Because they coruscate when thou dost smile,But know not who thou art, nor why tho...

By not enduring on the power that wills Curb for his good, that man who ne'er was born, Damning himself damned all his progeny;Whereby the human species down below Lay sick for many centuries in great error, Till to descend it pleased the Word of GodTo where the nature, which from its own Maker Estr...

Not through Typhoeus, but through nascent sulphur, Would have awaited her own monarchs still, Through me from Charles descended and from Rudolph,If evil lordship, that exasperates ever The subject populations, had not moved Palermo to the outcry of 'Death! death!'And if my brother could but this foresee...

Here we behold the art that doth adorn With such affection, and the good discover Whereby the world above turns that below.But that thou wholly satisfied mayst bear Thy wishes hence which in this sphere are born, Still farther to proceed behoveth me.Thou fain wouldst know who is within this light Th...

And one in theft, and one in state affairs, One in the pleasures of the flesh involved Wearied himself, one gave himself to ease;When I, from all these things emancipate, With Beatrice above there in the Heavens With such exceeding glory was received!When each one had returned unto that point Within...

Therein was born the amorous paramour Of Christian Faith, the athlete consecrate, Kind to his own and cruel to his foes;And when it was created was his mind Replete with such a living energy, That in his mother her it made prophetic.As soon as the espousals were complete Between him and the Faith at...

'Non si est dare primum motum esse,' Or if in semicircle can be made Triangle so that it have no right angle.Whence, if thou notest this and what I said, A regal prudence is that peerless seeing In which the shaft of my intention strikes.And if on 'rose' thou turnest thy clear eyes, Thou'lt see that...

'Tis well that without end he should lament, Who for the love of thing that doth not last Eternally despoils him of that love!As through the pure and tranquil evening air There shoots from time to time a sudden fire, Moving the eyes that steadfast were before,And seems to be a star that changeth place, ...

All those who at that time were there between Mars and the Baptist, fit for bearing arms, Were a fifth part of those who now are living;But the community, that now is mixed With Campi and Certaldo and Figghine, Pure in the lowest artisan was seen.O how much better 'twere to have as neighbours The fo...

Not yet the people are aware of him Through his young age, since only nine years yet Around about him have these wheels revolved.But ere the Gascon cheat the noble Henry, Some sparkles of his virtue shall appear In caring not for silver nor for toil.So recognized shall his magnificence Become hereaf...

Once 'twas the custom to make war with swords; But now 'tis made by taking here and there The bread the pitying Father shuts from none.Yet thou, who writest but to cancel, think That Peter and that Paul, who for this vineyard Which thou art spoiling died, are still alive!Well canst thou say: "So steadfa...

There it became a voice, and issued thence From out its beak, in such a form of words As the heart waited for wherein I wrote them."The part in me which sees and bears the sun In mortal eagles," it began to me, "Now fixedly must needs be looked upon;For of the fires of which I make my figure, Those ...

Nor did more love cause me to be more ready, For love as much and more up there is burning, As doth the flaming manifest to thee.But the high charity, that makes us servants Prompt to the counsel which controls the world, Allotteth here, even as thou dost observe.""I see full well," said I, "O sacred la...

O glorious stars, O light impregnated With mighty virtue, from which I acknowledge All of my genius, whatsoe'er it be,With you was born, and hid himself with you, He who is father of all mortal life, When first I tasted of the Tuscan air;And then when grace was freely given to me To enter the high w...

If by the grace of God this man foretaste Something of that which falleth from your table, Or ever death prescribe to him the time,Direct your mind to his immense desire, And him somewhat bedew; ye drinking are For ever at the fount whence comes his thought."Thus Beatrice; and those souls beatified ...

"Lift up thy head, and make thyself assured; For what comes hither from the mortal world Must needs be ripened in our radiance."This comfort came to me from the second fire; Wherefore mine eyes I lifted to the hills, Which bent them down before with too great weight."Since, through his grace, our Empero...

And said my Lady: "There within those rays Gazes upon its Maker the first soul That ever the first virtue did create."Even as the bough that downward bends its top At transit of the wind, and then is lifted By its own virtue, which inclines it upward,Likewise did I, the while that she was speaking, ...

Fidelity and innocence are found Only in children; afterwards they both Take flight or e'er the cheeks with down are covered.One, while he prattles still, observes the fasts, Who, when his tongue is loosed, forthwith devours Whatever food under whatever moon;Another, while he prattles, loves and listens...

Order was con-created and constructed In substances, and summit of the world Were those wherein the pure act was produced.Pure potentiality held the lowest part; Midway bound potentiality with act Such bond that it shall never be unbound.Jerome has written unto you of angels Created a long lapse of ...

And added: "The river and the topazes Going in and out, and the laughing of the herbage, Are of their truth foreshadowing prefaces;Not that these things are difficult in themselves, But the deficiency is on thy side, For yet thou hast not vision so exalted."There is no babe that leaps so suddenly Wi...

I lifted up mine eyes, and as at morn The oriental part of the horizon Surpasses that wherein the sun goes down,Thus, as if going with mine eyes from vale To mount, I saw a part in the remoteness Surpass in splendour all the other front.And even as there where we await the pole That Phaeton drove ba...

In thee compassion is, in thee is pity, In thee magnificence; in thee unites Whate'er of goodness is in any creature.Now doth this man, who from the lowest depth Of the universe as far as here has seen One after one the spiritual lives,Supplicate thee through grace for so much power That with his ey...

I Lift mine eyes, and all the windows blaze With forms of saints and holy men who died, Here martyred and hereafter glorified; And the great Rose upon its leaves displays Christ's Triumph, and the angelic roundelays, With splendor upon splendor multiplied; And Beatrice again at Dante's side No m...

Having been directed by a superb young clerk, who parted his hair in the middle, to "just stand out of the passage-way and amuse yourself with one of our Schedules for awhile," until the great life-Agent should come in, the Gospeler read a few schedulistic pages, proving, that if a person had his life Insured at the ag...

"I reckon it will, in time," returned the youth, moodily. "I suppose you know that my sister is determined to come here and stay with me?""Yes, MONTGOMERY, I have heard of her noble resolution. May her conversation prove sustaining to you.""There will be enough of it, I reckon, to sustain half a dozen people," was the ...

and give up all personal interest in the homogeneous relations arising from too precipitate a ratiocination of events, urging, at the same time, the positive proportions exercised in the administration of a not over particular dormitory, and the replication of chameleonizing--constantly chameleonizing, odoriferosities....

For reasons which the accompanying view may render obvious, Mr. P. and his men declined the invitation of the picnickers to stop and join them. The boat continued on until it reached the channel between islands No. 87 and No. 88, and there Mr. P. got out his lines and commenced to fish, trolling his bait behind as the ...

Well, it is something to be credited with having decent men about you; perhaps if _The Sun_ would try the experiment it would be found more purifying than even the sermons of O. DYER.* * * * *WHY IT IS SO DRY.We _thought_ it had something to do with a lack of moisture in the air; and now, along ...

When a fat man laffs, his little head sinks down into his shirt collar, and disappears in the fat, like a turtle's head when you tickle his nose with a sharp stick.And then to see them eat clams. I've seen men punish clams by the bushel--by the barrel--but never did I see men shovel clams in by the cart load before."Ge...

It was at first thought that H.S.H. would accede to the Emperor's request, his recent treaty with the Court of the _Grande Duchesse_ and his diplomatic relations with the Viennoise Ballet Troupe having rendered the event far from improbable. It was also considered that the hostility which he has openly displayed toward...

6. Fill your head with classical quotations, and trot them out on all occasions, whether discussing a bill for the diffusion of beans among the Indians, or the Alabama claims.7. Smoke many costly Havana cigars.This rule has been lately discovered.8. Get some one to write a history of CAESAR for you, or an account of a ...

Oh, the going back, after that! in the same loathed costume, inwardly justifying the laughter of the knowing loungers as you ascend among them, and cursing yourself as the chief among ten thousand (ninnies,)--the one altogether idiotic.Except for this enormous swindle, dear P., I should have enjoyed Niagara, and Niagar...

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The Complete Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poeedited byJohn H. IngramPREFACE.In placing before the public this collection of Edgar Poe's poetical works, it is requisite to point out in what respects it differs from, and is superior to, the numerous collections which have preceded it. Until r...

"a swift runner, a wonderful leaper, and, what was more rare, a boxer, with some slight training.... He would allow the strongest boy in the school to strike him with full force in the chest. He taught me the secret, and I imitated him, after my measure. It was to inflate the lungs to the uttermost, and at the ...

When Edgar was unhappy at home, which, says his aunt, Mrs. Clemm, "was very often the case, he went to Mrs. Stannard for sympathy, for consolation, and for advice." Unfortunately, the sad fortune which so frequently thwarted his hopes ended this friendship. The lady was overwhelmed by a terrible calamity, and at the pe...

This appears to have been Poe's last night at the university. He left it never to return, yet, short as was his sojourn there, he left behind him such honorable memories that his 'alma mater' is now only too proud to enrol his name among her most respected sons. Poe's adopted father, however, did not regard his 'protég...

Poe worked hard at the 'Gentleman's' for some time, contributing to its columns much of his best work; ultimately, however, he came to loggerheads with its proprietor, Burton, who disposed of the magazine to a Mr. Graham, a rival publisher. At this period Poe collected into two volumes, and got them published as 'Tales...

During his calmer moments Poe exerted all his efforts to proceed with his literary labors. He continued to contribute to 'Graham's Magazine,' the proprietor of which periodical remained his friend to the end of his life, and also to some other leading publications of Philadelphia and New York. A suggestion having been ...

These trifles are collected and republished chiefly with a view to their redemption from the many improvements to which they have been subjected while going at random the "rounds of the press." I am naturally anxious that what I have written should circulate as I wrote it, if it circulate at all. In defence of my own t...

Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden bells! What a world of happiness their harmony foretells! Through the balmy air of night How they ring out their delight! From the molten golden-notes, And all in tune, What a liquid ditty floats To the turtle-dove that listens, while she gloats On the moon! Oh,...

I saw thee once--once only--years ago: I must not say _how_ many--but _not_ many. It was a July midnight; and from out A full-orbed moon, that, like thine own soul, soaring, Sought a precipitate pathway up through heaven, There fell a silvery-silken veil of light, With quietude, and sultriness and slumber, ...

And I rest so composedly, Now in my bed, That any beholder Might fancy me dead-- Might start at beholding me Thinking me dead.The moaning and groaning, The sighing and sobbing, Are quieted now, With that horrible throbbing At heart:--ah, that horrible, Horrible throbbing!The sickness--th...

Not long ago, the writer of these lines, In the mad pride of intellectuality, Maintained "the power of words"--denied that ever A thought arose within the human brain Beyond the utterance of the human tongue: And now, as if in mockery of that boast, Two words--two foreign soft dissyllables-- Italian tones...

["The following lines from a correspondent--besides the deep, quaint strain of the sentiment, and the curious introduction of some ludicrous touches amidst the serious and impressive, as was doubtless intended by the author--appears to us one of the most felicitous specimens of unique rhyming which has for some...

"To M----L----S----," addressed to Mrs. Marie Louise Shew, was written in February 1847, and published shortly afterwards. In the first posthumous collection of Poe's poems these lines were, for some reason, included in the "Poems written in Youth," and amongst those poems they have hitherto been included.* * ...

But evil things, in robes of sorrow, Assailed the monarch's high estate. (Ah, let us mourn!--for never morrow Shall dawn upon him desolate !) And round about his home the glory That blushed and bloomed, Is but a dim-remembered story Of the old time entombed.And travellers, now, within that valley,...

The sonnet, "Silence," was originally published in Burton's 'Gentleman's Magazine' for April, 1840.* * * * *26. DREAMLANDThe first known publication of "Dreamland" was in 'Graham's Magazine' for June, 1844.* * * * *37. TO ZANTEThe "Sonnet to Zante" is not discoverable...

_Lal_. What didst thou say, Jacinta? Now I bethink me Thou hast not spoken lately of thy wedding. How fares good Ugo?--and when is it to be? Can I do aught?--is there no further aid Thou needest, Jacinta?_Jac_. (_aside_.) Is there no _fu...

_Voice_ (_very faintly_). "And is thy heart so strong [1] As for to leave me thus, That have loved thee so long, In wealth and woe among? And is thy heart so strong As for to leave me thus? Say nay! say nay!"_Bal...

_Lal_. (_after a pause_). And--he--shall--die!--alas! Castiglione die? Who spoke the words? Where am I?--what was it he said?--Politian! Thou _art_ not gone--thou art not _gone_, Politian! I _feel_ thou art not gone--yet dare not look, ...

_Castiglione_. Indeed. I hardly know myself. Stay! Was it not On yesterday we were speaking of the Earl? Of the Earl Politian? Yes! it was yesterday. Alessandra, you and I, you must remember! We were walking in the garden._Duke...

"I mentioned just now a vulgar error as regards criticism. I think the notion that no poet can form a correct estimate of his own writings is another. I remarked before that in proportion to the poetical talent would be the justice of a critique upon poetry. Therefore a bad poet would, I grant, make a false critique, a...

"Now, we have no doubt this is all true: we _will_ believe it, indeed we will, Mr, W. Is it sympathy for the sheep you wish to excite? I love a sheep from the bottom of my heart."But there are occasions, dear B----, there are occasions when even Wordsworth is reasonable. Even Stamboul, it is said, shall have an end, an...

All hurriedly she knelt upon a bed Of flowers: of lilies such as rear'd the head On the fair Capo Deucato [2], and sprang So eagerly around about to hang Upon the flying footsteps of--deep pride-- Of her who lov'd a mortal--and so died [3]. The Sephalica, budding with young bees, Uprear'd its purple stem ...

Young flowers were whispering in melody [21] To happy flowers that night--and tree to tree; Fountains were gushing music as they fell In many a star-lit grove, or moon-light dell; Yet silence came upon material things-- Fair flowers, bright waterfalls and angel wings-- And sound alone that from the spirit s...

Thus in discourse, the lovers whiled away The night that waned and waned and brought no day. They fell: for Heaven to them no hope imparts Who hear not for the beating of their hearts.1839.[Footnote 1: A star was discovered by Tycho Brahe which appeared suddenly in the heavens--attained, in a few days, a brillian...

Know thou the secret of a spirit Bowed from its wild pride into shame O yearning heart! I did inherit Thy withering portion with the fame, The searing glory which hath shone Amid the Jewels of my throne, Halo of Hell! and with a pain Not Hell shall make me fear again-- O craving heart, for the lost flow...

What tho' the moon--tho' the white moon Shed all the splendor of her noon, _Her_ smile is chilly--and _her_ beam, In that time of dreariness, will seem (So like you gather in your breath) A portrait taken after death. And boyhood is a summer sun Whose waning is the dreariest one-- For all we live to kno...

Thy soul shall find itself alone 'Mid dark thoughts of the gray tombstone Not one, of all the crowd, to pry Into thine hour of secrecy. Be silent in that solitude Which is not loneliness--for then The spirits of the dead who stood In life before thee are again In death around thee--and their will ...

Oh! that my young life were a lasting dream! My spirit not awakening, till the beam Of an Eternity should bring the morrow. Yes! though that long dream were of hopeless sorrow, 'Twere better than the cold reality Of waking life, to him whose heart must be, And hath been still, upon the lovely earth, A cha...

For being an idle boy lang syne, Who read Anacreon and drank wine, I early found Anacreon rhymes Were almost passionate sometimes-- And by strange alchemy of brain His pleasures always turned to pain-- His naïveté to wild desire-- His wit to love--his wine to fire-- And so, being young and dipt in folly...

Of the many verses from time to time ascribed to the pen of Edgar Poe, and not included among his known writings, the lines entitled "Alone" have the chief claim to our notice. 'Fac-simile' copies of this piece had been in possession of the present editor some time previous to its publication in 'Scribner's Magazine' f...

So blended bank and shadow there, That each seemed pendulous in air--so mirror-like was the glassy water, that it was scarcely possible to say at what point upon the slope of the emerald turf its crystal dominion began. My position enabled me to include in a single view both the eastern and western extremities of the...

I can comprehend you thus far--that certain operations of what we term Nature, or the natural laws, will, under certain conditions, give rise to that which has all the _appearance_ of creation. Shortly before the final overthrow of the earth, there were, I well remember, many very successful experiments in what...

One word first, my Una, in regard to man's general condition at this epoch. You will remember that one or two of the wise among our forefathers--wise in fact, although not in the world's esteem--had ventured to doubt the propriety of the term "improvement," as applied to the progress of our civilization. There ...

I breathed no longer. The pulses were still. The heart had ceased to beat. Volition had not departed, but was powerless. The senses were unusually active, although eccentrically so--assuming often each other's functions at random. The taste and the smell were inextricably confounded, and became one sentiment, a...

A year passed. The consciousness of _being_ had grown hourly more indistinct, and that of mere _locality_ had in great measure usurped its position. The idea of entity was becoming merged in that of _place_. The narrow space immediately surrounding what had been the body was now growing to be the body itself. A...

The elements of the strange orb were immediately calculated, and it was at once conceded by all observers that its path, at perihelion would bring it into very close proximity with the earth. There were two or three astronomers of secondary note who resolutely maintained that a contact was inevitable. I cannot ...

The year had been a year of terror, and of feeling more intense than terror for which there is no name upon the earth. For many prodigies and signs had taken place, and far and wide, over sea and land, the black wings of the Pestilence were spread abroad. To those, nevertheless, cunning in the stars, it was not unknown...

"And I looked upwards, and there stood a man upon the summit of the rock; and I hid myself among the water-lilies that I might discover the action of the man. And the man was tall and stately in form, and wrapped up from his shoulders to his feet in the toga of old Rome. And the outlines of his figure were indistinct--...

That the extent of a poetical work is _ceteris paribus_, the measure of its merit, seems undoubtedly, when we thus state it, a proposition sufficiently absurd--yet we are indebted for it to the Quarterly Reviews. Surely there can be nothing in mere _size_, abstractly considered--there can be nothing in mere _bulk_, so ...

Dividing the world of mind into its three most immediately obvious distinctions, we have the Pure Intellect, Taste, and the Moral Sense. I place Taste in the middle because it is just this position which in the mind it occupies. It holds intimate relations with either extreme; but from the Moral Sense is separated by s...

The idea of the last quatrain is also very effective. The poem on the whole, however, is chiefly to be admired for the graceful _insouciance_ of its metre, so well in accordance with the character of the sentiments, and especially for the _ease_ of the general manner. This "ease" or naturalness, in a literary style, it...

One of the noblest--and, speaking of Fancy--one of the most singularly fanciful of modern poets, was Thomas Hood. His "Fair Ines" had always for me an inexpressible charm:O saw ye not fair Ines? She's gone into the West, To dazzle when the sun is down And rob the world of rest She took our daylight with her...

From Alfred Tennyson, although in perfect sincerity I regard him as the noblest poet that ever lived, I have left myself time to cite only a very brief specimen. I call him, and _think_ him the noblest of poets, _not_ because the impressions he produces are at _all_ times the most profound--_not_ because the poetical e...

I have often thought how interesting a magazine paper might be written by any author who would--that is to say, who could--detail, step by step, the processes by which any one of his compositions attained its ultimate point of completion. Why such a paper has never been given to the world, I am much at a loss to say--b...

The length, the province, and the tone being thus determined, I betook myself to ordinary induction, with the view of obtaining some artistic piquancy which might serve me as a key-note in the construction of the poem--some pivot upon which the whole structure might turn. In carefully thinking over all the usual artist...

Of course I pretend to no originality in either the rhythm or metre of the "Raven." The former is trochaic--the latter is octametre acatalectic, alternating with heptametre catalectic repeated in the _refrain_ of the fifth verse, and terminating with tetrametre catalectic. Less pedantically, the feet employed throughou...

And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamplight o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor; And my soul _from out that shadow_ that lies floating o...

How truthful an air of lamentations hangs here upon every syllable! It pervades all. It comes over the sweet melody of the words--over the gentleness and grace which we fancy in the little maiden herself--even over the half-playful, half-petulant air with which she lingers on the beauties and good qualities of her favo...

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The latest transient guest at the Roach House--a hotel kept on the entomological plan in Bumsteadville--was a gentleman of such lurid aspect as made every beholder burn to know whom he could possibly be. His enormous head of curled red hair not only presented a central parting on top and a very much one-sided parting a...

"I am referred to your Honor for further particulars," observed Mr. TRACEY CLEWS, bowing again to Judge SWEENEY. "Not to wound our friend further by discussion of the fair sex, may I ask if Bumsteadville contains many objects of interest for a stranger, like myself?""One, at least, sir," answered the Judge. "I think I ...

_Invalid._--To regain strength you should take means to increase the amount of iron in your blood. Bark will do it, which accounts for the fact that the blood of dogs has a large per centage of iron. Here in New York, the ordinary way of getting iron in the blood is to have a knife run into you by the hand of an assass...

Now it happened that one HO RACE GREL HE, being a Prussian, did fall upon PHYSKE and did berate him in a paper, which is called the _Try Buin_. And PHYSKE became very wroth and did stop the sale of the paper, which is called the _Try Buin_, upon his roads. And HO RACE GREL HE, being a Prussian, was sore afraid, and did...

Could anything more melancholy have befallen our poet? He could remember in childhood's merry days the old candy-woman, with her plentiful store of brown sweetness long drawn out; and how himself and companions spent many a pleasant hour teasing their little teeth with the delicate morsels. Now his childhood's dreams v...

[Illustration: AT THE SARATOGA CONVENTION._Horace Greeley, (to Roscoe Conkling.)_ "DON'T BE RASH, NOW REMEMBER THAT A SOFT ANSWER TURNETH AWAY WRATH."_Roscoe Conkling_. "LET US HAVE PEACE, BY ALL MEANS: BUT IF THAT FELLOW REUBE FENTON INTERFERES WITH ME, HE HAD BETTER LOOK OUT THAT I DON'T SMASH HIS SLATE."]* * ...

Hopin' that in the futer, as you grow older, you may lern wisdom by cultivatin' my acquaintance--and with kind regards to UGEEN and bub BONYPART, in your native tung I will say:_Barn-sure, noblesse Pea-cracker._Ewer'n, one and onseperable,HIRAM GREEN, Esq.,_Lait Gustise of the Peece._* * * * *Bu...

"My name, sir, is the Hon. CHARLES AUGUSTUS DANA, Ex-Assistant Secretary of War, Ex-Proprietor of the ablest paper in the West, and at present Chief Editor of the New York _Sun_, price two cents. There is no individual here, sir, answering to the appellation of "Old Hunk," and, as I perceive, sir, that there is a most ...

That Brooklyn is a City of Churches has long been known to people of average intelligence. The following item, however, taken from a daily paper, is very suggestive of the old saying, "The nearer the church," etc."JOHN BEATY bit off WM. HARPER'S face in April last, at a church fight in Brooklyn, and then went to sea. L...

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The exquisitely sweet month of the perfectly delicious summer-vacation having come, Miss CAROWTHERS' Young Ladies have returned again, for a time, to their respective homes, MAGNOLIA PENDRAGON has gone to the city and her brother, and FLORA POTTS is ridiculously and absurdly alone.Under the ardent sun of August, Bumste...