Here's "Lenore". (Sorry about the lost lineation.)
Didn't film-maker Roger Corman make "Lenore" into a Vincent Price vehicle --
if such a creaking load of ham can be called a vehicle?
best,
John Tranter
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Edgar Allen Poe
LENORE (1831)
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 nevermore!
See! on yon drear and rigid bier low lies thy love, Lenore!
Come! let the burial rite be read- the funeral song be sung!An anthem for
the queenliest dead that ever died so youngA dirge for her the doubly dead
in that she died so young. “Wretches! ye loved her for her wealth and hated
her for her pride, And when she fell in feeble health, ye blessed her- that
she died!
How shall the ritual, then, be read?- the requiem how be sung By you- by
yours, the evil eye,- by yours, the slanderous tongue That did to death the
innocence that died, and died so young?" Peccavimus; but rave not thus! and
let a Sabbath song Go up to God so solemnly the dead may feel no wrong.
The sweet Lenore hath “gone before,” with Hope, that flew beside, Leaving
thee wild for the dear child that should have been thy bride.
For her, the fair and debonair, that now so lowly lies, The life upon her
yellow hair but not within her eyes The life still there, upon her hair-
the death upon her eyes. -
“Avaunt! avaunt! from fiends below, the indignant ghost is rivenFrom Hell
unto a high estate far up within the HeavenFrom grief and groan, to a
golden throne, beside the King of Heaven!
Let no bell toll, then,- lest her soul, amid its hallowed mirth, Should
catch the note as it doth float up from the damned Earth!
And I!- to-night my heart is light!- no dirge will I upraise, But waft the
angel on her flight with a Paean of old days!"
THE END
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