Lyric Poem · Peace
Hymn
1At morn — at noon — at twilight dim —
2Maria! thou hast heard my hymn!
3In joy and wo — in good and ill —
4Mother of God, be with me still!
5When the Hours flew brightly by,
6And not a cloud obscured the sky,
7My soul, lest it should truant be,
8Thy grace did guide to thine and thee
9Now, when storms of Fate o'ercast
10Darkly my Present and my Past,
11Let my future radiant shine
12With sweet hopes of thee and thine!
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“Hymn” by Edgar Allan Poe — quilloak.com/poems/hymn
Quick facts
- Poem
- Hymn
- Poet
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Length
- 12 lines
- Form
- Lyric Poem
- Themes
- Peace, Nature, Hope
Craft notes
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- Shape
- 12 lines · one 12-line stanza
- Line length
- Mostly 8-syllable lines (tetrameter length).
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- Author record
- Edgar Allan Poe1809–1849
- Source record
- PoetryDBHymn by edgar-allan-poe, PoetryDB transcription
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- Not recorded in the imported source
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 4a076143d42428cc…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.