...towers had thrust aside, In slightly sinking, the dull tide — As if their tops had feebly given A void within the filmy heaven. The waves have now a redder...rising from a thousand thrones, Shall do it reverence. TO ZANTE. FA1R isle that from the fairest of all flowers Thy gentlest of all gentle names dost take,...

...interpretation which Poe gives us — " Mystic current of its meaning " (12). LXXXIV.— THE HAUNTED PALACE. 1. In the greenest of our valleys, By good angels tenanted,...monarch Thought's dominion, It stood there ! Never seraph spread a pinion Over fabric half so fair. 2. Banners yellow, glorious, golden, On its roof did...

...throne. The verses, which were entitled The Haunted Palace, ran very nearly, if not accurately, thus : i. In the greenest of our valleys, By good angels tenanted,...monarch Thought's dominion — It stood there ! Never seraph spread a pinion Over fabric half so fair. Banners yellow, glorious, golden, On its roof did...

...any living grammarian, critic, or essayist. The following is an example of his use of this foot in the " Haunted Palace:" " In the greenest of our valleys,...good angels tenanted, Once a fair and stately palace (Snow-white palace) reared its head. 335 In the monarch Thought's dominion, It stood there ! Never...

...towers had thrust aside, In slightly sinking, the dull tide — As if their tops had feebly given A void within the filmy Heaven. The waves have now a redder...from a thousand thrones, Shall do it reverence. THE SLEEPER. |T midnight, in the month of June, I stand beneath the mystic moon. An opiate vapor, dewy,...

...understood by general readers. It pictures the devastation that follows upon the loss of reason.] 1- IN the greenest of our valleys, By good angels tenanted,...Monarch Thought's dominion, It stood there : Never seraph spread a pinion Over fabric half so fair ! *• Banners — yellow, glorious, golden, — On...

...had thrust aside, In slightly sinking, the dull tide, — As if their tops had feebly given A void within the filmy Heaven. The waves have now a redder...earthly moans, Down, down that town shall settle hence, Still, rising from a thousand thrones, Shall do it reverence." The poet's distressful career received...

...the pleasure of copying it here. We know no modern poet who might not have been justly proud of it. THE HAUNTED PALACE. In the greenest of our valleys,...Once a fair and stately palace — Radiant palace — rear'd its head. In the monarch Thought's dominion — It stood there ! Never seraph spread a pinion...

...nature, of broken hopes, and bitter experiences, the rare exotics of literature are sometimes grown. THE HAUNTED PALACE. In the greenest of our valleys...stately palace — Radiant palace — reared its head. la the monarch Thought's dominionIt stood there! Never seraph spread a pinion Over fabric half so fair!...

...towers had thrust aside, In slightly sinking, the dull tide — As if their tops had feebly given A void within the filmy Heaven. The waves have now a redder...breathing faint and low — And when, amid no earthly moaus, Down, down that town shall settle hence, Hell, rising from a thousand thrones, Shall do it reverence...