Variations of Southern Literary Messenger from abote:

IV. 5. Omit. 7. yon: a; VIII. 4. So: As; 5. While a stormier : And a loftier.

DREAM-LAND

Graham's Magazine, June, 1844; 1845; Broadway Journal, I. 26; Richmond Examiner, October 29, 1849.

Text, Richmond Examiner.

Variations from the text:

12. dews: tears. J. Lorimer Graham, 1845.

20. Insert after 1-6. except 5, read my home for these lands and

6. this for an. G. M.

25. Mountain. G. M.; B. J.

38. earth: worms. G. M.; B. J.

Insert after 1-6. except 5, read journeyed home for reached these

lands and 6. this for an. G. M.

42. Ol it is: 'Tis - oh, 't is, all others.

47. Its: the. G. M.; B. J.

50. Beholds: Beyond. E.

Note: Poe used lines nine to twelve of this poem with slight variations in his early poem on "Fairy-Land."

SONNET-TO ZANTE

Southern Literary Messenger, January, 1837; Poe MS., 1840; Philadelphia Saturday Museum, March 4, 1843; 1845; Broadway Journal, II. 2. Text, 1845.

Note: The germ of this poem like others may be found in Poe's early composition. See "Al Aaraaf," Part I.

"From struggling with the waters of the Rhone:

And thy most lovely purple perfume, Zante!

The MS. of this poem has an interesting history. The original owner was one of Poe's editors who gave his own recollections of Poe, but for some reason failed to mention this incident.

R. H. Stoddard made a request of Poe for his autograph, and in a letter dated Philadelphia, November 6, 1840, Poe expressed himself as much gratified at the request, "and now hasten to comply by transcribing a sonnet of my own composition." The letter and manuscript of the poem were included in a sale of Mr. Stoddard's books by the late E. C. Stedman, his executor, who related the incident as above.

The text of the MS. poem only varies from others in the omission of italics and a few punctuation changes.

THE CITY IN THE SEA

American Whig Review (sub-title, "A Prophecy"), April, 1845; 1845; Broadway Journal, II. 8. "The Doomed City," 1831; "The City of Sin," Southern Literary Messenger, August, 1836.

Variations from the text:

Text, 1845.

3. Far off in a region unblest. A. W. R.

4. And: where. S. L. M.

14-19. Omit. S. L. M.

20. No holy rays from heaven come down. S. L. M.

22. But light from out the lurid sea. S. L. M.

25. Around the mournful waters lie. A. W. R.

28-35. Omit A. W. R.

36. For no: No murmuring. A. W. R.

39. Some: a. A. W. R.

41. Seas less hideously: oceans not so bad. A. W. R.

Lo! Death hath rear'd himself a throne

In a strange city, all alone,

Far down within the dim west

And the good, and the bad, and the worst, and the best,

Have gone to their eternal rest.

Not the gayly-jewell'd dead

Tempt the waters from their bed:
For no ripples curl, alas!

Along that wilderness of glass —
No swellings hint that winds may be
Upon a far-off happier sea:

So blend the turrets and shadows there

That all seem pendulous in air,

While from the high towers of the town
Death looks gigantically down.
But lo! a stir is in the air!

The wave! there is a ripple there!
As if the towers had thrown aside,
In slightly sinking, the dull tide -
As if the turret-tops had given

A vacuum in the filmy heaven:

The waves have now a redder glow

The very hours are breathing low
And when, amid no earthly moans,

Down, down that town shall settle hence,

Hell rising from a thousand thrones

Shall do it reverence,

And Death to some more happy clime

Shall give his undivided time.

Note: The earliest form of this poem is found in the first thirty-nine lines of "Al Aaraaf," Part II, with note "O, the Wave."

TO ONE IN PARADISE

Southern Literary Messenger, "The Visionary," July, 1835; Broadway Journal, I. 19, I. 23, “The Assignation"; "To Ianthe in Heaven," Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, July, 1839; Tales, "The Visionary," 1840; Philadelphia Saturday Museum, March 4, 1843; 1845; Godey's Lady's Book, "The Visionary," January, 1834.

Text, J. Lorimer Graham copy 1845.

Variations from the text:

I. 1. That all: all that, all others.

5. With fairy fruits and: round with wild. Go. around about with.

S. L. M.; B. G. M.; 1840.

6. All the flowers: the flowers-they all. S. L. M.; B. G. M.; 1840. II. 1. But the dream- it could not last. Go.; S. L. M.; B. G. M.;

1840.

2. Young Hope! thou didst arise. Go. And the star of Hope did rise. S. L. M.; B. G. M.; 1840. Ah: Oh. S. M.

5. "On! on" - but: "Onward." Go.; S. L. M.; B. G. M.; 1840; B. J. but while. Go.; S. L. M.; B. G. M.; 1840.

III. 2. Ambition — all — is o'er. Go.; S. L. M.; B. G. M.; 1840.

4. Solemn: breaking. Go.

IV. 1. Days: hours. Go.; S. L. M.; B. G. M.; 1840. And: now. B. J. 3. Grey: dark, all others.

5-6. In the maze of flashing dances

By the slow Italian streams. Go.

6. Eternal: Italian. Go.; S. L. M.; 1840; B. J. What: far. Go. Insert after:

cept:

Alas! for that accursed time

They bore thee o'er the billow,

From Love to titled age and crime

And an unholy pillow

From me, and from our misty clime

Where weeps the silver willow. S. L. M.; 1840; Go. ex

3. Love: me.

5. me: Love.

The Literary World of February 5, 1853, reprinted from the London Spectator, January 1, 1853, a manuscript version of this poem. The correspondent had supposed the lines to be by Tennyson, and charged Poe with plagiarism. Tennyson wrote to the Spectator, January 20, 1853, correcting the statement. The text of the manuscript follows the Southern Literary Messenger, except:

I. 1. That: Omit.

II. 2. And the star of life did rise.

3. But: only.

III. 1-5. Like the murmur of the solemn sea

To sands on the sea-shore

A voice is whispering unto me

"The day is past," and nevermore.

IV. 1. And all mine hours.

2. Nightly: nights are.