{"id":635,"date":"2010-09-06T15:08:43","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T15:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=635"},"modified":"2010-09-06T15:08:43","modified_gmt":"2010-09-06T15:08:43","slug":"to-one-in-paradise-by-edgar-allan-poe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/to-one-in-paradise-by-edgar-allan-poe\/","title":{"rendered":"To One in Paradise by Edgar Allan Poe"},"content":{"rendered":"

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To One in Paradise by Edgar Allan Poe
\nThou wast that all to me, love,
\nFor which my soul did pine?
\nA green isle in the sea, love,
\nA fountain and a shrine,
\nAll wreathed with fairy fruits and flowers,
\nAnd all the flowers were mine.<\/p>\n

Ah, dream too bright to last!
\nAh, starry Hope! that didst arise
\nBut to be overcast!
\nA voice from out the Future cries,
\n“On! on!”?but o’er the Past
\n(Dim gulf!) my spirit hovering lies
\nMute, motionless, aghast!<\/p>\n

For, alas! alas! with me
\nThe light of Life is o’er!
\n“No more?no more?no more”?
\n(Such language holds the solemn sea
\nTo the sands upon the shore)
\nShall bloom the thunder-blasted tree,
\nOr the stricken eagle soar!<\/p>\n

And all my days are trances,
\nAnd all my nightly dreams
\nAre where thy dark eye glances,
\nAnd where thy footstep gleams?
\nIn what ethereal dances,
\nBy what eternal streams!<\/p>\n

Alas! for that accursed time
\nThey bore thee o’er the billow,
\nFrom love to titled age and crime,
\nAnd an unholy pillow!
\nFrom me, and from our misty clime,
\nWhere weeps the silver willow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

? To One in Paradise by Edgar Allan Poe Thou wast that all to me, love, For which my soul did pine? A green isle in the sea, love, A fountain and a shrine, All wreathed with fairy fruits and flowers, And all the flowers were mine. Ah, dream too bright to last! Ah, starry…<\/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-635","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