{"id":619,"date":"2010-08-20T00:52:06","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T00:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=619"},"modified":"2010-08-20T00:52:06","modified_gmt":"2010-08-20T00:52:06","slug":"to-the-lake-by-edgar-allan-poe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/to-the-lake-by-edgar-allan-poe\/","title":{"rendered":"TO THE LAKE by Edgar Allan Poe"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nEdgar Allan Poe
\n(1809-1849)<\/p>\n

TO THE LAKE<\/p>\n

In Spring of youth it was my lot
\nTo haunt of the wide world a spot
\nThe which I could not love the less –
\nSo lovely was the loneliness
\nOf a wild lake, with black rock bound,
\nAnd the tall pines that towered around.<\/p>\n

But when the night had thrown her pall
\nUpon that spot, as upon all,
\nAnd the mystic wind went by
\nMurmuring in melody –
\nThen – ah, then, I would awake
\nTo the terror of the lone lake.<\/p>\n

Yet that terror was not fright,
\nBut a tremulous delight –
\nA feeling not the jewelled mine
\nCould teach or bribe me to define –
\nNor Love – although the love were thine.<\/p>\n

Death was in that poisonous wave,
\nAnd in its gulf a fitting grave
\nFor him who thence could solace bring
\nTo his lone imagining –
\nWhose solitary soul could make
\nAn Eden of that dim lake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) TO THE LAKE In Spring of youth it was my lot To haunt of the wide world a spot The which I could not love the less – So lovely was the loneliness Of a wild lake, with black rock bound, And the tall pines that towered around. But when the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1800s","category-edgar-allen"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t