In the monarch Thought's dominion, It stood there ! Never seraph spread a pinion Over fabric half so fair! Banners yellow, glorious, golden, And every gentle air that dallied, In that sweet day, Along the ramparts plumed and pallid, A wingéd odor went away. Wanderers in that happy valley, . Through two luminous windows, saw To a lute's well-tuned law, Round about a throne where, sitting, Porphyrogene! In state his glory well befitting, The ruler of the realm was seen. And all with pearl and ruby glowing Was the fair palace door, Through which came flowing, flowing, flowing, And sparkling evermore, A troop of Echoes, whose sweet duty Was but to sing, In voices of surpassing beauty, 5 ΤΟ 15 20 25 30 The wit and wisdom of their king. 7 a: his (B.M.). 17 Wanderers: All wanderers (B. M.). 24 ruler: sovereign (B. M., B. G. M., Tales [1840]). 29 sweet: sole (B. G.M.). There are some qualities some incorporate things, A type of that twin entity which springs From matter and light, evinced in solid and shade. Body and soul. One dwells in lonely places, Newly with grass o'ergrown; some solemn graces, Render him terrorless: his name 's "No More." 45 ghastly rapid: rapid ghastly (B. M., B. G. M., Tales [1840], P.P.A., Tales [1845], Griswold [1847]). Title Silence. A Sonnet (B. G. M.). 2 which thus is: life aptly (B. G. M., S.M.). 3 A: The (B. G. M., S.M.). 5 He is the corporate Silence: dread him not! THE CONQUEROR WORM Lo! 't is a gala night Within the lonesome latter years! A play of hopes and fears, While the orchestra breathes fitfully The music of the spheres. Mimes, in the form of God on high, Mutter and mumble low, And hither and thither fly Mere puppets they, who come and go At bidding of vast formless things That shift the scenery to and fro, IO 15 (1840) 5 IO 15 14 That haunteth: Who haunteth (B. G. M.); lone: dim (B. G.M.). 20 Title Omitted in B.J. [September 27, 1845], the poem being there printed as a part of Ligeia. 3 An angel: A mystic (Graham's, S. M., B.J. [May 24, 1845]). 13 formless shadowy (Graham's). 31 And seraphs: And the seraphs (B. J. [September 27, 1845]), And the angels (all texts save B.J. [September 27, 1845] and the Lorimer Graham copy of 1845). 34 quivering: dying (Graham's). 37 While And (all texts save the Lorimer Graham copy); angels: seraphs (Graham's); pallid: haggard (Graham's). 40 And: Omitted in Graham's, S.M., B.J. [May 24, 1845], P.P.A. [1847]. DREAM-LAND By a route obscure and lonely, Where an Eidolon, named NIght, I have reached these lands but newly From an ultimate dim Thule From a wild weird clime that lieth, sublime, 5 IO 15 20 25 20 Graham's repeats after this line the first six lines of the poem, with the following changes: my home instead of "these lands" in line 5, and this for "an" in line 6. 25 mountains: mountain (Graham's, B.J.). |