The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe Author:Edgar Allan Poe General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1917 Original Publisher: Houghton Mifflin company Subjects: Drama / American Literary Criticism / American / General Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / General Poetry / American / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illus... more »trations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: AN ENIGMA Fiest, find out a word that doth silence proclaim, And that backwards and forwards is always the same, Then next you must find out a feminine name That backwards and forwards is always the same; An act, or a writing on parchment whose name Both backwards and forwards is always the same; A fruit that is rare, whose botanical name Read backwards and forwards is always the same; A note, used in music, which time doth proclaim, And backwards and forwards is always the same; Their initials connected, a title will frame, That is justly the due of the fair married dame, Which backwards and forwards is always the same. IMPROMPTU TtKal Carol When from your gems of thought I turn To those pure orbs, your heart to learn, I scarce know which to prize most high -- The bright -« less