7. Still upon the lovely: ever, on the chilly.

14. Dreams of living: dreamy fields of.

15. Loveliness have left my very: left unheedingly my.
19. Only. In italics.

27. After tho' insert but I have been. No italics.

SPIRITS OF THE DEAD

Visit of the Dead-1827; Poe MS.

Spirits of the Dead-1829; Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, July, 1839.

Text, Burton's Gentleman's Magazine.

But 't will leave thee as each star

With the dewdrop flies afar. MS.

IV. 4. Dewdrops: dewdrop. MS.; 1829; B. G. M. The 1827 version runs as follows:

Imitation, 1827; To

(A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM)

1829; Tamerlane, 1831; A Dream within

a Dream, Flag of Our Union, March 31, 1849; Richmond Examiner

And I hold within my hand
Some particles of sand-

How few! and how they creep
Thro' my fingers to the deep!
My early hopes ? no - they
Went gloriously away,

Like lightning from the sky
At once and so will I.

So young! Ah! no- not now —
Thou hast not seen my brow,
But they tell thee I am proud
They lie they lie aloud -
My bosom beats with shame
At the paltriness of name
With which they dare combine

A feeling such as mine

Nor Stoic? I am not:
In the terror of my lot
I laugh to think how poor
That pleasure "to endure !"
What! shade of Zeus !I!
Endure! -no no- - defy.

Notes: The lines 13-27 appear in "Tamerlane," 1831, revised. In line 18 of "Imitation," the word "sigh" is printed "sight." It is conjectured that Poe's last revision, "To," was addressed to "Annie," Mrs. Richmond. In 1849, Poe also sent to Mrs. Richmond all but the first nine lines as a separate poem signed "Edgar," and with the title "For Annie." A facsimile of the manuscript appeared in the London Bookman for January, 1909.

Variations in the manuscript are as follows:

10. All. No italics.

19. 0: Oh.

21. 0: Oh.

23. We: I.

"IN YOUTH HAVE I KNOWN ONE WITH WHOM

THE EARTH"

1827

Text, 1827.

Notes: The title "Stanzas" previously used with this poem is the late E. C. Stedman's, and unauthorized. If this was one of the poems written by Poe in 1821-22, he afterwards added the quotation from Byron - "The Island," which was not published until June, 1823.

A DREAM

1827, no title; 1829; 1845; Broadway Journal, II. 6.

THE LAKE. TO

1827, 1829, MS.; 1831 (in “Tamerlane "); 1845; New York, Missionary Memorial, 1846.

Text, Missionary Memorial.

The 1827 version is as follows: