The poetical works of Edgar Allan Poe, with original memoir. Illustrated by F. R. Pickersgill, R.A., John Tenniel, Birket Foster, Felix Darlay [and others]

TAMERLANE.
Then —in my boyhood-when their fire
Burned with a still intenser glow
(For passion must, with youth, expire),
E'en then who knew this iron heart
In woman's weakness had a part.
VIII.
I have no words-alas!-to tell
The loveliness of loving well!
Nor would I now attempt to trace
The more than beauty of a face
Whose lineaments, upon my mind,
Are shadows on th' unstable wind;
Thus I remember having dwelt
Some page of early lore upon,
VWith loitering eye, till I have felt
The letters-with their meaning-nmelt
To fantasies-with none.
IX.
0, she was worthy of all love!
Love as in infancy was mine-'T was such ag angel minds above
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