Lyric Poem · Nature
To F
Beloved! amid the earnest woes
That crowd around my earthly path —
(Drear path, alas! where grows
Not even one lonely rose) —
My soul at least a solace hath
In dreams of thee, and therein knows
An Eden of bland repose.
And thus thy memory is to me
Like some enchanted far-off isle
In some tumultuous sea —
Some ocean throbbing far and free
With storm — but where meanwhile
Serenest skies continually
Just o'er that one bright inland smile.
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Quick facts
- Poem
- To F
- Poet
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Length
- 14 lines
- Form
- Lyric Poem
- Themes
- Nature, Sad, Love
Craft notes
How this poem works
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- Shape
- 14 lines · 2 septets
- Line length
- Lines run 6-9 syllables (median 8), consistent with tetrameter. No single length dominates, which is normal once elision and contraction are in play.
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- Author record
- Edgar Allan Poe1809–1849
- Source record
- PoetryDBTo F 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 42bde76ad32ce627…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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