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<\/h2>\n<\/h2>\nThe skies they were ashen and sober;
\nThe leaves they were crisp\u00e9d and sere,
\nThe leaves they were withering and sere;
\nIt was night in the lonesome October
\nOf my most immemorial year; 5
\nIt was hard by the dim lake of Auber,
\nIn the misty mid region of Weir:
\nIt was down by the dank tarn of Auber,
\nIn the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir.<\/p>\n
Here once, through an alley Titanic 10
\nOf cypress, I roamed with my Soul\u2014
\nOf cypress, with Psyche, my Soul.
\nThese were days when my heart was volcanic
\nAs the scoriac rivers that roll,
\nAs the lavas that restlessly roll 15
\nTheir sulphurous currents down Yaanek
\nIn the ultimate climes of the pole,
\nThat groan as they roll down Mount Yaanek
\nIn the realms of the boreal pole.<\/p>\n
Our talk had been serious and sober, 20
\nBut our thoughts they were palsied and sere,
\nOur memories were treacherous and sere,
\nFor we knew not the month was October,
\nAnd we marked not the night of the year,
\n(Ah, night of all nights in the year!) 25
\nWe noted not the dim lake of Auber
\n(Though once we had journeyed down here),
\nRemembered not the dank tarn of Auber
\nNor the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir.<\/p>\n
And now, as the night was senescent 30
\nAnd star-dials pointed to morn,
\nAs the star-dials hinted of morn,
\nAt the end of our path a liquescent
\nAnd nebulous lustre was born,
\nOut of which a miraculous crescent 35
\nArose with a duplicate horn,
\nAstarte’s bediamonded crescent
\nDistinct with its duplicate horn.<\/p>\n
And I said\u2014”She is warmer than Dian:
\nShe rolls through an ether of sighs, 40
\nShe revels in a region of sighs:
\nShe has seen that the tears are not dry on
\nThese cheeks, where the worm never dies,
\nAnd has come past the stars of the Lion
\nTo point us the path to the skies, 45
\nTo the Lethean peace of the skies:
\nCome up, in despite of the Lion,
\nTo shine on us with her bright eyes:
\nCome up through the lair of the Lion,
\nWith love in her luminous eyes.” 50<\/p>\n
But Psyche, uplifting her finger,
\nSaid\u2014”Sadly this star I mistrust:
\nHer pallor I strangely mistrust:
\nOh, hasten!\u2014oh, let us not linger!
\nOh, fly!\u2014let us fly!\u2014for we must.” 55
\nIn terror she spoke, letting sink her
\nWings until they trailed in the dust;
\nIn agony sobbed, letting sink her
\nPlumes till they trailed in the dust,
\nTill they sorrowfully trailed in the dust. 60<\/p>\n
I replied\u2014”This is nothing but dreaming:
\nLet us on by this tremulous light!
\nLet us bathe in this crystalline light!
\nIts sibyllic splendor is beaming
\nWith hope and in beauty to-night: 65
\nSee, it flickers up the sky through the night!
\nAh, we safely may trust to its gleaming,
\nAnd be sure it will lead us aright:
\nWe safely may trust to a gleaming
\nThat cannot but guide us aright, 70
\nSince it flickers up to Heaven through the night.”<\/p>\n
Thus I pacified Psyche and kissed her,
\nAnd tempted her out of her gloom,
\nAnd conquered her scruples and gloom;
\nAnd we passed to the end of the vista, 75
\nBut were stopped by the door of a tomb,
\nBy the door of a legended tomb;
\nAnd I said\u2014”What is written, sweet sister,
\nOn the door of this legended tomb?”
\nShe replied\u2014”Ulalume\u2014Ulalume\u2014 80
\n‘T is the vault of thy lost Ulalume!”<\/p>\n
Then my heart it grew ashen and sober
\nAs the leaves that were crisped and sere,
\nAs the leaves that were withering and sere,
\nAnd I cried\u2014”It was surely October 85
\nOn this very night of last year
\nThat I journeyed\u2014I journeyed down here,
\nThat I brought a dread burden down here:
\nOn this night of all nights in the year,
\nAh, what demon has tempted me here? 90
\nWell I know, now, this dim lake of Auber,
\nThis misty mid region of Weir:
\nWell I know, now, this dank tarn of Auber,
\nThis ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir.”<\/p>\n
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Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American writer, poet, critic and editor best known for his tales of mystery and horror. He is considered a central figure in the American Romantic movement and was one of the first American practitioners of the short story.<\/p>\n
Poe was born in Boston to actress Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe and actor David Poe Jr. His father abandoned the family when Poe was a toddler and his mother died of tuberculosis when he was two, leaving him orphaned. He was taken in by the wealthy tobacco merchant John Allan and his wife Frances in Richmond, Virginia.<\/p>\n
Though never formally adopted, Poe took Allan as his middle name. He had a strained relationship with John Allan who did not support his literary ambitions. As a young man Poe attended the University of Virginia but was forced to drop out due to lack of funds.<\/p>\n
His publishing career began in 1827 with the poetry collection Tamerlane and Other Poems. In 1835 he became editor of the Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond. He later lived in Philadelphia working as editor for magazines like Burton\u2019s Gentleman\u2019s Magazine and Graham\u2019s Magazine.<\/p>\n
It was during this time that Poe established himself as a critical reviewer and published many of his most famous stories, including \u201cThe Fall of the House of Usher,\u201d \u201cThe Tell-Tale Heart,\u201d \u201cThe Pit and the Pendulum,\u201d and \u201cThe Murders in the Rue Morgue.\u201d<\/p>\n
Known for his Gothic, macabre themes and melancholic tone, Poe pioneered the modern detective story and helped define early science fiction. He married his cousin Virginia Clemm in 1836 who died of tuberculosis in 1847. Poe himself died under mysterious circumstances at the age of 40 in 1849.<\/p>\n
Though not widely recognized during his lifetime, Poe\u2019s stories and criticism have had a profound and lasting influence on American and international literature. He is now considered one of the most significant writers of the 19th century.<\/p>\n
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