I’ve read nearly the complete works of Edgar Allen Poe, but I have no memory of this wonderful poem, The Haunted Palace. The world of Poe’s writing is always tragic and vivid. His poems, especially, combine a sense of loss and regret with the experience of inhabiting a dreamy, mysterious and beautiful place unbound toContinue reading “The Haunted Palace”
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Happy Halloween
Ulalume by Edgar Allen Poe The skies they were ashen and sober; The leaves they were crisped and sere— The leaves they were withering and sere; It was night in the lonesome October Of my most immemorial year: It was hard by the dim lake of Auber, In the misty mid region of Weir— ItContinue reading “Happy Halloween”
You Wait Your Turn, October
Turn away but a moment and fall seizes the land Now the honey locust rests and autumn’s blonde trim hurries about the grove Patience, October! Your time will come