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To Marie Louise (Shew) II | Poems by Edgar Allan Poe · Ririro.com - Poetry

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  Speaker 1: Not long ago, the writer of these lines and the
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  Speaker 1: mad pride of intellectuality, maintained the power of words, denied
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  Speaker 1: that ever a thought arose within the human brain beyond
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  Speaker 1: the utterance of the human tongue. And now, as if
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  Speaker 1: in mockery of that boast, two words to foreign, soft
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  Speaker 1: dist syllables, Italian tones made only to be murmured by
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  Speaker 1: angels streaming in the moonlit dew, that hang like chains
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  Speaker 1: of pearls on her mid heel, have stirred from out
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  Speaker 1: of the abyss of his heart, unthought like thoughts that
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  Speaker 1: in the souls of thoughts richer, far wider, far diviner
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  Speaker 1: visions that even the seraph Harper Israel, who has the
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  Speaker 1: sweetest voice of all God's creatures, could hope to utter.
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  Speaker 1: And I my spells are broken. The pen falls powerless
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  Speaker 1: from my shivering hand. With thy my dear name is text.
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  Speaker 1: Though bitten by thee, I cannot write, I cannot speak
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  Speaker 1: or think. At last, I cannot feel, for tis not feeling,
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  Speaker 1: the standing motionless upon the golden threshold of the wide
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  Speaker 1: open gate of dreams, gazing and trance adown the gorgeous vistas,
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  Speaker 1: and thrilling as I see upon the right, upon the left,
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  Speaker 1: and all the way along amid purple vapors, far away
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  Speaker 1: to where the prospects terminate. THEE only