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1. Which Edgar Allan Poe poem is the following excerpt from?:
"Leaving thee wild for the dear child that should have been thy bride -
For her, the fair and debonnaire, that now so lowly lies,
The life upon her yellow hair but not within her eyes-
The life still there, upon her hair - the death upon her eyes."
2. Which Edgar Allan Poe poem is the following excerpt from?:
"Because I feel that, in the heavens above,
The angels, whispering to one another,
Can find, among their burning terms of love,
None so devotional as that of "Mother,"
3. Which Edgar Allan Poe poem is the following excerpt from?:
"Once it smiled a silent dell
Where the people did not dwell;
They had gone unto the wars,
Trusting to the mild-eyed stars,
Nightly, from their azure towers,
To keep watch above the flowers,
In the midst of which all day
The red sunlight lazily lay."
4. Which Edgar Allan Poe poem is the following excerpt from?:
"The ring is on my hand,
And the wreath is on my brow;
Satin and jewels grand
Are all at my command,
And I am happy now."
5. Which Edgar Allan Poe poem is the following excerpt from?:
"Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken,
`Doubtless,' said I, `what it utters is its only stock and store,
Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful disaster
Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore -"
6. Which Edgar Allan Poe poem is the following excerpt from?:
"And travellers, now, within that valley,
Through the red-litten windows see
Vast forms, that move fantastically
To a discordant melody,
While, like a ghastly rapid river,
Through the pale door
A hideous throng rush out forever
And laugh - but smile no more."
7. Which Edgar Allan Poe poem is the following excerpt from?:
"Thou wast all that to me, love,
For which my soul did pine-
A green isle in the sea, love,
A fountain and a shrine,
All wreathed with fairy fruits and flowers,
And all the flowers were mine."
8. Which Edgar Allan Poe poem is the following excerpt from?:
"But Psyche, uplifting her finger,
Said: "Sadly this star I mistrust -
Her pallor I strangely mistrust:
Ah, hasten! -ah, let us not linger!
Ah, fly! -let us fly! -for we must."
In terror she spoke, letting sink her
Wings until they trailed in the dust -
In agony sobbed, letting sink her
Plumes till they trailed in the dust -
Till they sorrowfully trailed in the dust."
9. Which Edgar Allan Poe poem is the following excerpt from?:
"At midnight, in the month of June,
I stand beneath the mystic moon.
An opiate vapor, dewy, dim,
Exhales from out her golden rim,
And, softly dripping, drop by drop,
Upon the quiet mountain top,
Steals drowsily and musically
Into the universal valley."
10. Which Edgar Allan Poe poem is the following excerpt from?:
"The sickness--the nausea--
The pitiless pain--
Have ceased, with the fever
That madden'd my brain--
With the fever called 'Living'
That burn'd in my brain."
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