The Works of Edgar Allan Poe – Volume 5

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Эдгар Аллан По. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe – Volume 5

PHILOSOPHY OF FURNITURE

A TALE OF JERUSALEM

THE SPHINX

HOP-FROG

THE MAN OF THE CROWD

NEVER BET THE DEVIL YOUR HEAD

THOU ART THE MAN

WHY THE LITTLE FRENCHMAN WEARS HIS HAND IN A SLING

SOME WORDS WITH A MUMMY

THE POETIC PRINCIPLE

OLD ENGLISH POETRY5

POEMS

PREFACE

POEMS OF LATER LIFE. THE RAVEN

THE BELLS

ULALUME

TO HELEN

ANNABEL LEE

A VALENTINE

AN ENIGMA

FOR ANNIE

TO F —

TO FRANCES S. OSGOOD

ELDORADO

TO MARIE LOUISE (SHEW)

TO MARIE LOUISE (SHEW)

THE CITY IN THE SEA

THE SLEEPER

NOTES

POEMS OF MANHOOD

LENORE

TO ONE IN PARADISE

THE COLISEUM

THE HAUNTED PALACE

THE CONQUEROR WORM

SILENCE

DREAM-LAND

HYMN

TO ZANTE

SCENES FROM “POLITIAN”

POEMS OF YOUTH. INTRODUCTION TO POEMS – 1831. LETTER TO MR. B –

SONNET – TO SCIENCE

AL AARAAF6

TAMERLANE

TO HELEN

THE VALLEY OF UNREST

ISRAFEL37

TO —

TO —

TO THE RIVER —

SONG

SPIRITS OF THE DEAD

A DREAM

ROMANCE

FAIRY-LAND

THE LAKE – TO —

EVENING STAR

“THE HAPPIEST DAY.”

IMITATION

HYMN TO ARISTOGEITON AND HARMODIUS

DREAMS

“IN YOUTH I HAVE KNOWN ONE”

NOTES

DOUBTFUL POEMS

ALONE

TO ISADORE

THE VILLAGE STREET

THE FOREST REVERIE

NOTES

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“LET us hurry to the walls,” said Abel-Phittim to Buzi-Ben-Levi and Simeon the Pharisee, on the tenth day of the month Thammuz, in the year of the world three thousand nine hundred and forty-one – let us hasten to the ramparts adjoining the gate of Benjamin, which is in the city of David, and overlooking the camp of the uncircumcised; for it is the last hour of the fourth watch, being sunrise; and the idolaters, in fulfilment of the promise of Pompey, should be awaiting us with the lambs for the sacrifices.”

Simeon, Abel-Phittim, and Duzi-Ben-Levi were the Gizbarim, or sub-collectors of the offering, in the holy city of Jerusalem.

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“The sound appeared to come from without,” observed one of the courtiers. “I fancy it was the parrot at the window, whetting his bill upon his cage-wires.”

“True,” replied the monarch, as if much relieved by the suggestion; “but, on the honor of a knight, I could have sworn that it was the gritting of this vagabond’s teeth.”

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