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What is Edgar Allan Poe's shortest poem?
-- Anonymous, October 04, 2000
deep in earth
-- Anonymous, October 05, 2000
Melissa,For shortest poem, it would have to be either the second version of "To ____" (1829) or "To F____s S. O______d" (1835) ... both are a mere 8 lines.
The poem "To____" is:
I heed not that my earthly lot
Hath - little of earth in it -
That years of love have been forgot
In the hatred of a minute: -
I mourn not that the desolate
Are happier, sweet, than I
But that you sorrow for my fate
Who am a passer by.
Regards,
-- Anonymous, October 05, 2000
Melissa,It appears I was mistaken in regards to Poe's shortest poem. There was one of only two lines written by Poe at the age of 15 in 1824. Apparently untitled by Poe, it was found in the financial records of his foster-father, John Allan. It goes:
Last night, with many cares and toils oppress'd
Weary, I laid me on a couch to rest
Regards,
-- Anonymous, October 06, 2000
Edgar Allan Poe's shortised poem was Deep in Earth
-- Anonymous, December 20, 2000