Edgar Allan Poe – To [Elmira]

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“The bowers whereat, in dreams, I see
The wantonest singing birds
Are lips — and all thy melody
Of lip-begotten words“
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“To [Elmira]” is a poem written by Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems, in 1829, as “To –“.

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To [Elmira]
by
Edgar Allan Poe

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The bowers whereat, in dreams, I see
The wantonest singing birds
Are lips — and all thy melody
Of lip-begotten words —
 
2
 
Thine eyes, in Heaven of heart enshrin’d
Then desolately fall,
O! God! on my funereal mind
Like starlight on a pall —
 
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Thy heart — thy heart! — I wake and sigh,
And sleep to dream till day
Of truth that gold can never buy —
Of the trifles that it may.