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Edgar Allan Poe - To M--

O! I care not that my earthly lot
Hath little of Earth in it,
That years of love have been forgot
In the fever of a minute:

I heed not that the desolate
Are happier, sweet, than I,
But that you meddle with my fate
Who am a passer by.

It is not that my founts of bliss
Are gushing- strange! with tears-
Or that the thrill of a single kiss
Hath palsied many years-

'Tis not that the flowers of twenty springs
Which have wither'd as they rose
Lie dead on my heart-strings
With the weight of an age of snows.

Not that the grass- O! may it thrive!
On my grave is growing or grown-
But that, while I am dead yet alive
I cannot be, lady, alone. 

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Poet: Edgar Allan Poe
Poem: To M--

Comment 1 of 1, added on December 8th, 2009 at 8:06 AM.
For Meg

Dearest, if you see this you'll know that this was the poem I wanted to guide you too but was too cowardly, as what it expresses touches too close to my own truth- a truth which I believe you perceived, but which did not frighten you away. Forgive me for letting us both down. I miss you, Meg.

C

Charles from United States

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