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A Valentine | Poetry by Edgar Allan Poe · Ririro.com - Poetry

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Speaker 1: For her, this rhyme is penned, whose luminous eyes shall
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Speaker 1: find her own sweet name. That nestling lies upon the page,
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Speaker 1: enwrapped from every reader. Search narrowly the lines. They hold
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Speaker 1: a treasure divine, a talisman, an amulet that must be
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Speaker 1: worn at heart. Search well the measure, the words, the syllables.
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Speaker 1: Do not forget the trivialist point, or you may lose
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Speaker 1: your labor. And yet there is in this no Gordian
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Speaker 1: knot which one might not undo with a saber. If
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Speaker 1: one could merely comprehend the plot in written upon the leaf,
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Speaker 1: were now our peering eyes scintillating soul, there lie perdue
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Speaker 1: three eloquent words, oft uttered in the hearing of poets
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Speaker 1: by poets, as the name is a poet's too. Its letters,
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Speaker 1: although naturally lying like the knight Pinto menes Ferdinando, still
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Speaker 1: form a sinne for truth ceased trying, you will not
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Speaker 1: read the riddle, though you do the best you can do,