Lyric Poem · Nature
To Zante
1Fair isle, that from the fairest of all flowers,
2 Thy gentlest of all gentle names dost take!
3How many memories of what radiant hours
4 At sight of thee and thine at once awake!
5How many scenes of what departed bliss!
6 How many thoughts of what entombed hopes!
7How many visions of a maiden that is
8 No more — no more upon thy verdant slopes!
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“To Zante” by Edgar Allan Poe — quilloak.com/poems/to-zante
Quick facts
- Poem
- To Zante
- Poet
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Length
- 14 lines
- Form
- Lyric Poem
- Themes
- Nature, Sad, Hope
Craft notes
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- Shape
- 14 lines · 2 stanzas of 6–8 lines
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- Author record
- Edgar Allan Poe1809–1849
- Source record
- PoetryDBTo Zante 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 32d9e8b089b710fa…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.