Thursday, April 28, 2016

Eulalie

I dwelt alone
In a world of moan,
And my soul was a stagnant tide,
Till the fair and gentle Eulalie became my blushing bride-
Till the yellow-haired young Eulalie became my smiling bride.

Ah, less- less bright
The stars of the night
Than the eyes of the radiant girl!
That the vapor can make
With the moon-tints of purple and pearl,
Can vie with the modest Eulalie's most unregarded curl-
Can compare with the bright-eyed Eulalie's most humble and careless
curl.

Now Doubt- now Pain
Come never again,
For her soul gives me sigh for sigh,
And all day long
Shines, bright and strong,
Astarte within the sky,
While ever to her dear Eulalie upturns her matron eye-
While ever to her young Eulalie upturns her violet eye. 

           Edgar Allan Poe was completely in love and he wrote this to describe his lovely wife Virginia. A young man marries a lady named Eulalie and he describes her as the star that outshines other stars. They were happy together and she was love of his life. The man used to walk in darkness until she came along and changed his life. The poem represented Edgar Allan Poe before his wife died in 1947. He was a very happy man until then. Everything after was severely depressing and he would never recover from it.

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