OK, reading a poetry clip on CM got me started! This is one of my favorite Poems and Poe is incredibly dark and romantic and gothic. The beginning starts like a fairy tale and if you think they all end happily ever after the reader is in for a surprise. Poe uses strong uses of images in this poem. But his love for her is so powerful that he can't let go, he mourns, he dreams to her eyes; and every night he goes to her grave and lies down beside her. He was obviously a man who was madly in love and I think Poe felt the two of them were placed solely on Earth for each other. WOW.

I love Poe. His life was so tragic; he did not live to see success, but he is remembered by many. One unknown person visits his grave every year.

that was beautiful!

I saw thee once - once only - years ago:
I must not say how many - but not many.
It was a July midnight; and from out
A full-orbed moon, that, like thine own soul, soaring,
Sought a precipitate pathway up through heaven,
There fell a silvery-silken veil of light,
With quietude, and sultriness, and slumber,
Upon the upturned faces of a thousand
Roses that grew in an enchanted garden,
Where no wind dared to stir, unless on tiptoe
Fell on the upturn'd faces of these roses
That gave out, in return for the love-light,
Their odorous souls in an ecstatic death
Fell on the upturn'd faces of these roses
That smiled and died in this parterre, enchanted
By thee, and by the poetry of thy presence.

@abaliart:
Doesn't Poe make beautiful metaphors? He loves to discuss beauty and he loves beautiful women, not just physical beauty either! Far from it, he is fixated on the soul; the idea of beauty and it's perfection.

Beautiful