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Edgar Allan Poe. 1809 –. 1849. Ah broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever! Let the bell toll!--a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river; And, Guy De Vere, hast thou no tear?--weep now or never more! See! on yon drear and rigid bier low lies thy love, Lenore!
Lenore features as one of the main characters of Shipwrecked's 2016 comedy web series "Edgar Allan Poe's Murder Mystery Dinner Party", where she is a corporeal ghost haunting Poe's home and acting as his roommate.
‘Lenore’ by Edgar Allan Poe (Bio | Poems) contains a dialogue between an opinionated mourner and the would-be-husband of the young, lost bride, Lenore. The poem begins with a mourner asking Guy De Vere, the intended husband of the dead Lenore, why he isn’t weeping.
Let no bell toll! Lest her sweet soul, Amid its hallow’d mirth, Should catch the note As it doth float Up from the damned earth — To friends above, from fiends below, th’ indignant ghost is riven — From grief and moan To a gold throne Beside the King of Heaven!”. Edgar Allan Poe.
Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “Lenore” was published in 1843, though an earlier version of the poem had appeared in 1831, under the title “A Pæan.” This earlier version was significantly shorter and didn’t feature the name “Lenore” anywhere. Furthermore, the lines were all spoken by a grief-struck lover.
Read, review and discuss the Lenore poem by Edgar Allan Poe on Poetry.com.
From grief and groan to a golden throne beside the King of Heaven! Should catch the note as it doth float up from the damnéd Earth! But waft the angel on her flight with a Paean of old days!" The complete, unabridged text of Lenore by Edgar Allan Poe, with vocabulary words and definitions.