Fata Morgana: A Hungarian Legend
Posted on July 21, 2007 - Filed Under Gothic Poetry
By Mary E. Atkinson
Down in the silent, emerald water
The Sea King dwelt, and his lovely daughter.
Grand was the palace under the wave,
And gay with the troops of mermen brave-
Rich with a wealth of sea-gems rare,
And decked with all that was bright and fair;
But richest and brightest and fairest of all
Were the royal maiden’s bower and […]
Love Among the Graves
Posted on July 15, 2007 - Filed Under Gothic Poetry
Twenty years ago, in gladsome weather,
In this silent city’s woodland bound,
Love and I, with buoyant step together,
Careless, wandered round–
Wandered round and through the winding alleys,
Brave with arbor vitae, woodbine, rose,
Fragrant on the hills and in the valleys
Of the sacred close.
Among the Tombs
Posted on July 15, 2007 - Filed Under Gothic Poetry
Sometimes I do despatch my heart
Among the graves to dwell apart:
On some the tablets are erased,
Some earthquake-tumbled, some defaced,
And some that have forgotten lain
A fall of tears makes green again.
And my brave heart can over-tread
Her brood of hopes, her infant dead,
And pass with quickened footstep by
The headstone of hoar memory,
Till she hath found
One swelling mound
With […]
The Raven
Posted on July 8, 2007 - Filed Under Edgar Allan Poe
The Raven, With illustrations by Édouard Manet, 1875
Read More..>>Poe Biography from our Album of Authors, 1886
Posted on July 8, 2007 - Filed Under Edgar Allan Poe
This bio of Edgar Allan Poe appeared in “Our Album of Authors,” published in 1886. Modern biographers are divided as to the actual cause of his death, but it is generally agreed upon that slander and gossip tainted many early biographies of Poe, our great American poet and author.
Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, […]
