| Frontispiece: “Al Aaraaf.” | |
| PAGE | |
| Title-page. | |
| Contents (headpiece) | vii |
| (Tailpiece) | ix |
| List of Illustrations (headpiece) | xi |
| (Tailpiece) | xiv |
| Introduction (headpiece) | xv |
| (Tailpiece) | xxxii |
| Preface and Dedication of the Volume of 1845 (decorated title) | xxxiii |
| Headpiece to Preface | xxxv |
| Border to Dedication | xxxvii |
| Poems (decorated title) | 1 |
| The Raven (headpiece) | 3 |
| “The night’s plutonian shore” | 8, 9 |
| The Bells (decorated title) | 13 |
| (Headpiece) | 15 |
| “The swinging and the ringing of the bells” | 19 |
| Tailpiece) | 20 |
| Ulalume (frontispiece) | 22 |
| Astarte | 24 |
| “In agony sobbed” | 25 |
| “It was down by the dank tarn of Auber” | 27 |
| Bridal Ballad (headpiece) | 29 |
| Lenore (headpiece) | 30 |
| Lenore | 31 |
| A Valentine (tailpiece) | 34 |
| A Valentine | 35 |
| An Enigma (headpiece) | 37 |
| To Helen (headpiece) | 38 |
| (Tailpiece) | 40 |
| Annabel Lee (headpiece) | 41 |
| For Annie (headpiece) | 42 |
| (Tailpiece) | 45 |
| To F——s S. O——d (headpiece) | 46 |
| To —— —— (tailpiece) | 47 |
| The City in the Sea (headpiece) | 48 |
| (Tailpiece) | 50 |
| “With its Phantom chased for evermore By a crowd that seize it not” |
51 |
| The Conqueror Worm (tailpiece) | 53 |
| The Sleeper (headpiece) | 54 |
| “The lady sleeps” | 55 |
| (Tailpiece) | 56 |
| The Coliseum (headpiece) | 57 |
| “Where an Eidolon, named Night, On a black throne reigns upright” |
58 |
| Eulalie | 62 |
| To my Mother (headpiece) | 63 |
| Eldorado: “He met a pilgrim shadow” | 64 |
| “In search of Eldorado” | 65 |
| To F—— (head- and tailpiece) | 67 |
| To One in Paradise | 71 |
| Hymn (head- and tailpiece) | 71 |
| A Dream within a Dream (headpiece) | 72 |
| “I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore” |
73 |
| To Zante (headpiece) | 75 |
| The Haunted Palace (headpiece) | 76 |
| “But evil things, in robes of sorrow, Assailed the monarch’s high estate” |
78, 79 |
| (Tailpiece) | 81 |
| Silence (head-and tailpiece) | 82 |
| Silence | 83 |
| Israfel (headpiece) | 85 |
| Israfel | 87 |
| To M. L. S—— (headpiece) | 89 |
| The Valley of Unrest (headpiece) | 90 |
| Poems written in Youth (decorated title) | 91 |
| To Helen (decorated border) | 93 |
| Sonnet: To Science (headpiece) | 94 |
| Spirits of the Dead (headpiece) | 95 |
| Evening Star (headpiece) | 96 |
| Evening Star | 97 |
| Fairyland (headpiece) | 99 |
| (Tailpiece) | 100 |
| The Lake: To —— (headpiece) | 101 |
| A Dream (headpiece) | 102 |
| A Pæan (headpiece) | 103 |
| The Happiest Day (headpiece) | 105 |
| Alone (headpiece) | 106 |
| Alone | 107 |
| Stanzas (headpiece) | 109 |
| To —— (headpiece) | 110 |
| To the River (headpiece) | 111 |
| Song (head- and tailpiece) | 112 |
| Dreams (headpiece) | 113 |
| Romance (headpiece) | 114 |
| Tamerlane (decorated title) | 115 |
| (Headpiece) | 117 |
| “On the mountain peak alone” | 123 |
| Timour | 126 |
| Al Aaraaf (decorated title) | 127 |
| (Headpiece to Part I.) | 129 |
| “She ceased—and buried then her burning cheek | |
| Abashed, amid the lilies” | 135 |
| (Headpiece to Part II.) | 136 |
| (Tailpiece) | 143 |
| (Headpiece to Notes) | 144 |
| Scenes from “Politian” (decorated title) | 149 |
| (Headpiece) | 151 |
| “I cannot pray!—My soul is at war with God” | 157 |
| (Tailpiece) | 170 |
| Letter to Mr. —— (headpiece) | 173 |
| (Tailpiece) | 181 |
| The Poetic Principle (frontispiece) | 184 |
| (Headpiece) | 185 |
| The Philosophy of Composition (headpiece) | 211 |
| Finis | 225 |
About This Book
A curated volume of lyrical and narrative verse that repeatedly returns to themes of loss, mourning, and yearning for unattainable beauty. The poems rely on precise meter, inventive rhyme, and vivid gothic and dreamlike imagery to produce a haunting musicality. Selections range from intimate, tender lyrics to ornate, macabre narratives, alternating elegiac reflection with dramatic tableaux. An introductory essay and decorative illustrations frame the poems and connect their emotional intensity to the poet’s temperament and critical reception.