Uncollected Poems by Edgar Allan Poe--Delphi Classics (Illustrated) by Edgar Allan Poe

Uncollected Poems by Edgar Allan Poe--Delphi Classics (Illustrated) by Edgar Allan Poe

Author:Edgar Allan Poe [POE, EDGAR ALLAN]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Parts Edition 5 of 21 by Delphi Classics
Publisher: Delphi Classics (Parts Edition)
Published: 2017-08-25T00:00:00+00:00


AN ENIGMA

“Seldom we find,” says Solomon Don Dunce,

“Half an idea in the profoundest sonnet.

Through all the flimsy things we see at once

As easily as through a Naples bonnet —

Trash of all trash! — how can a lady don it?

Yet heavier far than your Petrarchan stuff-

Owl-downy nonsense that the faintest puff

Twirls into trunk-paper the while you con it.”

And, veritably, Sol is right enough.

The general tuckermanities are arrant

Bubbles — ephemeral and so transparent —

But this is, now, — you may depend upon it —

Stable, opaque, immortal — all by dint

Of the dear names that lie concealed within ‘t.

1847.



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