Poems By Edgar Allan Poe - Poetry (1824)

Poetry (1824)

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This poem, most likely incomplete, was never printed in Poe's lifetime. Its two lines were found written on a page of some of John Allan's financial records. This is the earliest surviving manuscript in Poe's own hand.

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