About the book:
This is one of the earliest collections of Poe’s poems, containing 27 illustrations by various illustrators.
It contains:
Memoir, The Raven, Lenore, Hymn, A Valentine, The Coliseum, To Helen, To ____ ___, Ulalume, The Bells, An Enigma, Annabel Lee, To My Mother, The Haunted Palace, The Conqueror Worm, To F-S S. O-D, To ___, To One in Paradise, The Valley of Unrest, The City in the Sea, The Sleeper, Silence, A Dream Within A Dream, Dream-land, To Zante, Eulalie, Eldorado, Israfel, For Annie, Bridal Ballad, TO F___, Scenes from “Politian”, Sonnet – to Science, Al Aaraaf, To The River ___, Tamerlane, To Helen, To M. L. S., A Dream, Fairy-Land, Romance, The Lake __ to ___
Excerpt:
A Dream Within a Dream
I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand —
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep — while I weep!
O God! Can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?
