Edgar Allan Poe – Fanny

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“The dying swan by northern lakes
Sing’s its wild death song, sweet and clear,
And as the solemn music breaks
O’er hill and glen dissolves in air;
Thus musical thy soft voice came,
Thus trembled on thy tongue my name…”
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“Fanny” is a poem written by Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published on May 18, 1833 in the Baltimore Saturday Visiter. As originally published, the poem was signed “TAMERLANE”, and was later attributed to Poe by John C. French.

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Fanny
by
Edgar Allan Poe

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The dying swan by northern lakes
Sing’s its wild death song, sweet and clear,
And as the solemn music breaks
O’er hill and glen dissolves in air;
Thus musical thy soft voice came,
Thus trembled on thy tongue my name.
Like sunburst through the ebon cloud,
Which veils the solemn midnight sky,
Piercing cold evening’s sable shroud,
Thus came the first glance of that eye;
But like the adamantine rock,
My spirit met and braved the shock.
Let memory the boy recall
Who laid his heart upon thy shrine,
When far away his footsteps fall,
Think that he deem’d thy charms divine;
A victim on love’s alter [[altar]] slain,
By witching eyes which looked disdain.

TAMERLANE.