Show I b EDGAR ALLEN POE Ir x is 1 1 tir is 10 I L At the left the home of oC Poes Foes child childhood childhood hood the Allan residence In Rich Richmond RIchmond Richmond mond Va At the tho right the house housein in which Tho Raven was written Below Bela a fac fae simile of the original manuscript of or The Bells BellsOn BellsOn BellsOn On January 19 10 Edgar Allan Poe r eccentric ec American genius to whose 1 r melancholy was has been he en tuned the most t I original of or American poems would have havo been boen years jears old had he be es escaped escaped t untimely fate In 1849 1549 We have Inherited many manuscripts from hits hla weird pen l on and yet ct so great Is our literary decadence that the average American recalls little or nothing of or ortho tho the thrilling story stor of The Raven naven perched upon the chamber door to whose Image the tho poet seeking stir sur surcease cease of or sorrow for his lost Lenore addressed hi midnight longing and m was answered Nevermore It is worthy worth the time of the tho busiest man to read road The Bells ind and to oh ob observe serve sone the startling possibilities of the English language The Bolls Bells Is ono one of too the greatest poems ever eyer written It is as follows THE TH BELLS Hear Near the sledges with the bells bolls I I Silver Sliver bells What a world of merriment their mel melody tidy ody foretells I t How they tinkle tinkle tinkle In the Icy air all of night whine While tho the stars that All the heavens seem to twinkle With a delight Keeping time time time In a n sort of oC Runic flunk rhyme i lo 10 c the tho tintinnabulation that so 50 music musically r ally wells From the th bells bells hells hells bells bells I Bells bells bells belIs l From Wrom the Jingling and tho the tinkling of or orthe i the bells Hear the mellow wedding bells Golden bells What a world of happiness their bar har harmony mony foretells Through the tho balmy air all of night How they thoy tho ring out their delight From the molten golden notes n tos 1 i And all In tune What a liquid ditty floats To the tho turtledove that listens while she gloats On the moon Oh Ob from out the sounding cells What a gush of euphony wells walls 4 I How it swells iw How It dwells On the Future how It tells tolls Of the rapture that impels I To the swing and the ringing rinsing Of the Ule bells bells Of the bells bells hells bells Bells hells bells bells belIs To the rhyming and the of ot the bells Hear Hoar the loud alarum hells bells Brazen bells beIls What a tale of terror terrol now their thor turbo 1 j tells In Tn the startled car ear of night How they scream out their affright m Too much horrified to speak 1 They T can only shriek shriek o Out of tune I I In a clamorous appealing to the tho mercy merc j of the fire t In a mad expostulation with wit the deaf and frantic fire I Leaping higher higher higher With a desperate desire And with a resolute endeavor Now Nono now to sit or never neer i By Bs the side of the moon Oh Ob tho bells bells bells r What hat a tale their terror tells s i Of 01 Despair How they th r clang and crash and roar they tae outpour 4 I On tho the bosom of the palpitating air i Yet Tet the ear it il fully knows By the twanging And the clanging How the danger ebbs and flows i Yet tho the ear distinctly tells teUs 1 In the jangling And the tho I How the danger sinks and swells By the tho sinking or the swelling In tho the i anger of the bells I Of or the bells I I Of 0 tho the bells bolls bells hells bells bells Bells BeUs bells hells bells I i In n the clamor hells bells and the clangor of or tho the thoi I I of I I I I I I II I II I Jet rn f r 4 Ifal fw j m mt l l t t r rJ I j J 0 a n I 1 flUM r IJ J 1 Ju rte 1 4 M I l fJ 1 4 j t I ti Mt t a Liu u ul I l I eIn ual tt ut Jul It a w n 1 1 I ost 01 J Iu Jim 7 f 1 MI aft ru 4 tet Ii e axat s 7 rot eJ 1 t ado 6 i t it t tv C et Tj tl A f 1 S wl w J 14 Z t IJ LJ At 1 n MJ M I Ick Gott ck lLa W tr h ri hJ hd n atIf t Jet t LE LEe e e 41 i 4 u re t a i lu 1 71 J F t l lI t I lI 7 t cht I n 11 t Jr yo 10 f J ft 4 oMI Hear HeRr the tolling toiling of tho the bells bell Iron bells What a world of oC solemn thought their monody monod compels In time the silence of the tho night How we wo shiver with 1 At the melancholy menace of their tone tono For every sound that floats From tho the rust within throats Is a groan And the people ih h tine tile people pe 9 They 1 he hev that dwell up In lie tte steeple AH All A II alone alono And who tolling tolling tolling In that muffled monotone Feel a glory glOr In so rolling On tho the human heart a 1 stone They are neither man nor woman They The are neither brute nor human They Ther arc are Ghoul Ghouls And their king it Is who ho tolls And he rolls tolls rolls rolls robs rol Rolls A paean from th thu hells And Anil his merry melr bosom swells With the paean cf of the bells belle And he lie dances Jances and a tl lJ he 10 J yells cil J I eeling eling time tim ti tie In a I sort of Runic Rung rhyme To the paean of the Ute bolls Of or the bolls bells b lIs Keeping time time In a Il sort sorl of Runic rhyme t To the throbbing of tho the bells bell bellOf Of the halls bolls hells bolls bells To the sobbing of the bells bolls Keeping time lime time time As he knells knells knells In a happy Runic rh rhyme me meTo meTo To the rolling of o the bells Of Oi the bells bolls bells hells bolls lo Io 1 o the tolling of or the hells bells Of the tile bells hells bells hells bell bells bolls Bolls BolIs bells hells bells beIls To the moaning and the groaning of tho th bells Edgar Allan AlIan Poe possessed that highly developed dual nature which he ho hohas has so forcefully brought out in his William Wilson It Il is largely largel on this account that authorities differ so sow widely w in attempting to his life The TIle general conception of Poe is one ono of anything but sobriety faith falt faithfulness l of duty and respect of home life and yet et no less an authority than titan thanN N P Willis who for some time cm em employed played Poe Poc as critic and on his dally daily paper pale and who thus be became became became came Intimately associated with the I great grent author describes J Poes life anti and I habits as quite the reverse of the gen general general general I eral conception Mr Mi Willis states that he knew Poe Poo intimately for four lour or r I five years rears following their first per personal personal personal acquaintance on the paper At Atthe Atthe the time Poo Poe resided with his wife and at al Fordham F a few miles out of town but hut was at his desk in the th office from 9 in the morn morning mornIn morning ing In until the evening paper wont to 0 press He lie states that by common report he had harl been led to expect a n avery very er capricious attention to his duties and occasionally a scene of violence and difficulty Continuing he hc says sa Time went on however and POP Poo Po was invariably punctual and indus industrious ind industrious ls With the pole pale beautiful and in tn intellectual intellectual face as a reminder of what wha t genius g was In him it was impossible of course not to treat him always with deferential courtesy comtes Poes life was shrouded in mystery from early earb He possessed a It high strung sensitive affectionate temperament very ery hard to understand Criticisms and rebuff which would world have hao had no effect on most authors worked on his over oel sensitive nature and ancl highly excited him During all of his hiB life he lacked the sympathetic s affection af affection affection of o a fond caressing mother and doting Tho The Allans were good to him and bought him everything money moner could procure but he never neer received that which was so necessary to his happiness a mothers love When hen 7 years of age he was taken to England and aud there received received his early carly education That period was vas one of the happiest of his entire life When ne returned to America he ho was still a boy Io and was vests put 11 t in a private school In Virginia and later Inter entered the of Virginia for fOl one I term I About this time lime the Turkish uprising uprising uprising ing was attracting much attention and Poe started for the war vat with the In Intention intention I of enlisting but nothing is known of the year Car which followed as ho was very j reticent In commenting on this year He then lien returned and entered West Nest Point but the routine life was as far from front liking and he was court out for disobeying orders His adopted mother had Bled llod during the Interim and Mr Ir Allan had little sympathy for his adopted sons son caprices anti and this dismissal from West WestPoint WestPoint Point was the last straw which alienated alien alienated alienated Mr Allan from the eccentric son The years which followed were those of hardship for when young Poe en endeavored endeavored to secure the means of sus sustenance by b his pen he hc found for fOl the tho first time iu fu his life how hares hard It was to be lIe As the years ealS went by h however he gained in larity and experience and anti although still poor he married his h Is cousin who had inherited the family weakness of oC consumption As regards Poes family life we again find the most varying opinions but hut it is generally generall conceded ho he was WIS passionately fond of his ling beautiful be wife and devoted to item her throughout her re remaining remaining years ean Although these years full of o trouble for thorn thom both bolh still only praise for Poe Poc In his treat treatment treatment ment of or his frail wife Is to be found among authorities who ho knew them both hath intimately No greater tribute tributo was ever eer paid to lo Edgar Allan Poe than tho the Inquiry of his to the tho aforesaid N P Willis This was Do the day dl after Poes death and is as fol lows I have haYe this morning heard of the tho death of my mr darling Eddie Can Cnn you give me any am circumstances or pantie particulars ulars Oh do lio not desert your OU r I poor friend in this hitter bitter affliction Ask Mr to come conic as ns I must deliver a message to him from my poor Eddie Eidie I need not ask aHI YOU vou to notice his death and ani to speak well of him I 1 know you OU will But Bill say what an nn affectionate son eon ho was to me Ills his poor disconsolate moth mother or er orThe erThe The circumstances of Poes death were most unfortunate for they the en on enabled enabled his lils and he had many to cast a cloud over his last days da As a matter of fact very vory little is known concerning the of his death He lie had complained c to a H friend of III health just before starting starling on ona onn ona a n Journey to bring his mother inlaw to his home and his friends tried to dissuade him from going but hut he was determined rl At Baltimore ho lie left the train and was later hater lat l picked lunched up In an unconscious condition on the streets and to a n hospital where he never regained consciousness mation of the brain was wag given glen out as aR the tho cause causo of his death and there Is I no tto ground for the tho rumor that thaI roe rno died In a drunken stupor It is a fuel filet he hu drank considerably dur duro ing tho the latter part of his life and that thaI he deplored this fact as much as dirt did his friends There is IB iH no basis for the tho stories stones that his writings were Inspired by his overexcited brain duo due clU to excessive drinking Poo was appreciative of kindness and possessed a Il loving sympathetic character was fond of dumb and was highly respected among amon those friends who were to him hint l While Poe Poo l 18 ii renowned for his poetry it is s to his prose that many man turn r 1 r for some oi of thin the best descriptive and most Interesting bort s stories even written These are arc notably The Fall all of the tho House of of Usher The 1 lc Mask of the tho Rea Red Death The rime Murders of the Rue Morgue The he Beetle and William Ilson Many Man of these prose pro c tales were written during the various times In ifs mis career when he was WOG writing for fol magazines nod and newspapers and upon such stories as The Beetle The Murders of o the Rue Rne Morgue etc ele was us founded 1 a 11 now new n school in short story stOl fiction of which A Oman Conan Doyle Do le and his hie Sherlock Holmes are alo today toda the typical Among Amon Poes best known poems are arc The Bolls Dolls The Raven Rayen Valley of Unrest Lenore Helen and alid I |