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Poems Of Edgar Allan Poe: For Annie
From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Poe, Edgar Allan
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For Annie
Thank Heaven! the crisis - The danger is past, And the lingering illness Is over at last - And the fever called 'Living' Is conquered at last.
Sadly, I know I am shorn of my strength, And no muscle I move As I lie at full length - But no matter! - I feel I am better at length.
'And I rest so composedly Now, in my bed, That any beholder Might fancy me dead - Might start at beholding me, Thinking me dead.
The moaning and groaning, The sighing and sobbing, Are quieted now, With that horrible throbbing At heart: - ah that horrible, Horrible throbbing!
The sickness - ...
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