What are two of Edgar Allan Poe's short poems, like 2-3 stanzas long?

Answer 1

Alone by Edgar Allan Poe (1875)

From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were -- I have not seen
As others saw -- I could not bring
My passions from a common spring --
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow -- I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone --
And all I lov'd -- I lov'd alone --
Then -- in my childhood -- in the dawn
Of a most stormy life -- was drawn
From ev'ry depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still --
From the torrent, or the fountain --
From the red cliff of the mountain --
From the sun that 'round me roll'd
In its autumn tint of gold --
From the lightning in the sky
As it pass'd me flying by --
From the thunder, and the storm --
And the cloud that took the form
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view --



A Dream Within A Dream by Edgar Allan Poe (1850)

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow --
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand --
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep -- while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?

Answer 2

A Dream

In visions of the dark night
I have dreamed of joy departed-
But a waking dream of life and light
Hath left me broken-hearted.

Ah! what is not a dream by day
To him whose eyes are cast
On things around him with a ray
Turned back upon the past?

That holy dream- that holy dream,
While all the world were chiding,
Hath cheered me as a lovely beam
A lonely spirit guiding.

What though that light, thro' storm and night,
So trembled from afar-
What could there be more purely bright
In Truth's day-star?

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Alone

From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were; I have not seen
As others saw; I could not bring
My passions from a common spring.
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow; I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone;
And all I loved, I loved alone.
Then- in my childhood, in the dawn
Of a most stormy life- was drawn
From every depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still:
From the torrent, or the fountain,
From the red cliff of the mountain,
From the sun that round me rolled
In its autumn tint of gold,
From the lightning in the sky
As it passed me flying by,
From the thunder and the storm,
And the cloud that took the form
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view.

Answer 3

Some of his shortest are:

To F---S S. O----D (only eight lines)
http://books.eserver.org/poetry/poe/to_f--s_s_o--d.html

Hymn (12)
http://www.infomotions.com/etexts/literature/american/1800-1899/poe-hymn-447.htm

Sonnet - To Science (14 - I really like this one):
http://library.thinkquest.org/11840/Poe/science.html

To My Mother (14):
http://bau2.uibk.ac.at/sg/poe/works/poetry/mother.html

Silence (15):
http://bau2.uibk.ac.at/sg/poe/works/poetry/mother.html

Answer 4

Lenore - "Ah, broken is the golden bowl!..."
Hymn - "At morn -- at noon -- at twilight dim..."
A Valentine - "For her this rhyme is penned..."
An Enigma - "'Seldom we find,' says Solomon..."
To My Mother - "Because I feel that, in the heavens above,..."
The Valley of Unrest "Once it smiled a silent dell..."
A Dream Within a Dream "Take this kiss upon the brow..."
To Zante "Fair isle, that from the fairest of all flowers..."
Eulalie "I dwelt alone/ in a world of moan,.."
Eldorado "Gaily bedight/ a gallant knight..."
To ----- "I heed not that my earthly lot..."
To F--- "Beloved! amid the earnest woes..."