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I generally don't get into poetry. But I always liked this one. Apologies for my predictability, and if someone has already posted this.

The Conqueror Worm
Edgar Allan Poe

Lo! 'tis a gala night
Within the lonesome latter years!
An angel throng, bewinged, bedight
In veils, and drowned in tears,
Sit in a theatre, to see
A play of hopes and fears,
While the orchestra breathes fitfully
The music of the spheres.

Mimes, in the form of God on high,
Mutter and mumble low,
And hither and thither fly-
Mere puppets they, who come and go
At bidding of vast formless things
That shift the scenery to and fro,
Flapping from out their Condor wings
Invisible Woe!

That motley drama–oh, be sure
It shall not be forgot!
With its Phantom chased for evermore,
By a crowd that seize it not,
Through a circle that ever returneth in
To the self-same spot,
And much of Madness, and more of Sin,
And Horror the soul of the plot.

But see, amid the mimic rout
A crawling shape intrude!
A blood-red thing that writhes from out
The scenic solitude!
It writhes!–it writhes!–with mortal pangs
The mimes become its food,
And seraphs sob at vermin fangs
In human gore imbued.

Out–out are the lights–out all!
And, over each quivering form,
The curtain, a funeral pall,
Comes down with the rush of a storm,
While the angels, all pallid and wan,
Uprising, unveiling, affirm
That the play is the tragedy, "Man,"
And its hero the Conqueror Worm.


Yeah, predictable...

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Comments

[thedeadlyhook.livejournal.com]

Awww... Poe. I was a near miss for posting Poe. There's just such a lovely rhythym in his verse, a haunting sort of sing-song. I think "Annabel Lee" was another poem I had to memorize at one time in my school career. Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.

But yeah, "Conquerer Worm." And much of Madness, and more of Sin, And Horror the soul of the plot. Grim, grim Poe. Love it.