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Nuklify asked in Arts & HumanitiesPoetry · 9 years ago

Can you name some poems like 'Alone' by Edgar Allan Poe?

Alike in quality and general content please. Also poems like Annabelle Lee.

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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago
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    How about "Spirits Of The Dead" by Edgar Allan Poe?

    Spirits Of The Dead

    Thy soul shall find itself alone

    'Mid dark thoughts of the grey tomb-stone;

    Not one, of all the crowd, to pry

    Into thine hour of secrecy.

    Be silent in that solitude,

    Which is not loneliness-for then

    The spirits of the dead, who stood

    In life before thee, are again

    In death around thee, and their will

    Shall overshadow thee; be still.

    The night, though clear, shall frown,

    And the stars shall not look down

    From their high thrones in the Heaven

    With light like hope to mortals given,

    But their red orbs, without beam,

    To thy weariness shall seem

    As a burning and a fever

    Which would cling to thee for ever.

    Now are thoughts thou shalt not banish,

    Now are visions ne'er to vanish;

    From thy spirit shall they pass

    No more, like dew-drop from the grass.

    The breeze, the breath of God, is still,

    And the mist upon the hill

    Shadowy, shadowy, yet unbroken,

    Is a symbol and a token.

    How it hangs upon the trees,

    A mystery of mysteries!

    *****

    Or Matthew Arnold's "Isolation: To Marguerite"

    Isolation: To Marguerite

    We were apart; yet, day by day,

    I bade my heart more constant be.

    I bade it keep the world away,

    And grow a home for only thee;

    Nor fear'd but thy love likewise grew,

    Like mine, each day, more tried, more true.

    The fault was grave! I might have known,

    What far too soon, alas! I learn'd—

    The heart can bind itself alone,

    And faith may oft be unreturn'd.

    Self-sway'd our feelings ebb and swell—

    Thou lov'st no more;—Farewell! Farewell!

    Farewell!—and thou, thou lonely heart,

    Which never yet without remorse

    Even for a moment didst depart

    From thy remote and spherèd course

    To haunt the place where passions reign—

    Back to thy solitude again!

    Back! with the conscious thrill of shame

    Which Luna felt, that summer-night,

    Flash through her pure immortal frame,

    When she forsook the starry height

    To hang over Endymion's sleep

    Upon the pine-grown Latmian steep.

    Yet she, chaste queen, had never proved

    How vain a thing is mortal love,

    Wandering in Heaven, far removed.

    But thou hast long had place to prove

    This truth—to prove, and make thine own:

    "Thou hast been, shalt be, art, alone."

    Or, if not quite alone, yet they

    Which touch thee are unmating things—

    Ocean and clouds and night and day;

    Lorn autumns and triumphant springs;

    And life, and others' joy and pain,

    And love, if love, of happier men.

    Of happier men—for they, at least,

    Have dream'd two human hearts might blend

    In one, and were through faith released

    From isolation without end

    Prolong'd; nor knew, although not less

    Alone than thou, their loneliness.

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