greykit.poetry · #mourning

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1843 [edgar-allan-poe] Lenore
Poems (1849)

A mourner refuses to sing a dirge for Lenore — who died so young, doubly dead — and rebukes those who loved her for wealth and hated her for pride; the poem closes with a defiant pæan, sending the angel up to a golden throne beside the King of Heaven.

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