In visions of the dark night

I have dreamed of joy departed -

But a waking dream of life and light

Hath left me broken-hearted.

Ah! what is not a dream by day

To him whose eyes are cast

On things around him with a ray

Turned back upon the past?

That holy dream - that holy dream,

While all the world were chiding,

Hath cheered me as a lovely beam,

A lonely spirit guiding.

What though that light, thro' storm and night,

So trembled from afar -

What could there be more purely bright

In Truth's day star?

1837.

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• Table of Contents
• Dedication
• Preface
• Poems of Later Life: The Raven
• Poems of Later Life: The Bells
• Poems of Later Life: Ulalume
• Poems of Later Life: To Helen
• Poems of Later Life: Annabel Lee
• Poems of Later Life: A Valentine
• Poems of Later Life: An Enigma
• Poems of Later Life: To My Mother
• Poems of Later Life: For Annie
• Poems of Later Life: To F---
• Poems of Later Life: To Frances S. Osgood
• Poems of Later Life: Eldorado
• Poems of Later Life: Eulalie
• Poems of Later Life: A Dream Within a Dream
• Poems of Later Life: To Marie Louise (Shew)
• Poems of Later Life: To Marie Louise (Shew) (second poem)
• Poems of Later Life: The City in the Sea
• Poems of Later Life: The Sleeper
• Poems of Later Life: Bridal Ballad
• Notes to the Poems of Later Life
• Poems of Manhood: Lenore
• Poems of Manhood: To One in Paradise
• Poems of Manhood: The Coliseum
• Poems of Manhood: The Haunted Place
• Poems of Manhood: The Conqueror Worm
• Poems of Manhood: Silence
• Poems of Manhood: Dreamland
• Poems of Manhood: To Zante
• Poems of Manhood: Hymn
• Notes to the Poems of Manhood
• Scenes From Politian: An Unpublished Drama
• Poems of Youth Introduction
• Poems of Youth: Sonnet - To Science
• Poems of Youth: Al Aaraaf
• Poems of Youth: Tamerlane
• Poems of Youth: To Helen
• Poems of Youth: The Valley of Unrest
• Poems of Youth: Israfel
• Poems of Youth: To ----
• Poems of Youth: To ---- (second poem)
• Poems of Youth: To the River
• Poems of Youth: Song
• Poems of Youth: Spirits of the Dead
• Poems of Youth: A Dream
• Poems of Youth: Romance
• Poems of Youth: Fairyland
• Poems of Youth: The Lake
• Poems of Youth: Evening Star
• Poems of Youth: Imitation
• Poems of Youth: "The Happiest Day"
• Poems of Youth: Hymn to Aristogeiton and Harmodius
• Poems of Youth: Dreams
• Poems of Youth: "In Youth I Have Known One"
• Poems of Youth: A Paean
• Notes to the Poems of Youth
• Doubtful Poems: Alone
• Doubtful Poems: To Isadore
• Doubtful Poems: The Village Street
• Doubtful Poems: The Forest Reverie
• Notes on the Doubtful Poems
• Prose Poems: The Island of the Fay
• Prose Poems: The Power of Words
• Prose Poems: The Colloquy of Monos and Una
• Prose Poems: The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion
• Prose Poems: Shadow - A Parable
• Prose Poems: Silence - A Fable
• Essays: The Poetic Principle
• Essays: The Philosophy of Composition
• Essays: Old English Poetry
• Sources