Poetry Tuesday!: "Alone" by Edgar Allan Poe

"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 — ..."

Here's "Alone" (1829) by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). (This is on my YouTube channel, which mostly consists of my Sasha Reads playlist, plus a smattering of law-related songs.) See also a previous Poe poem I posted, "The Conqueror Worm".

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 —

For the rest of my "Sasha Reads" playlist, click here. Past poems are:

1. "Ulysses" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
2. "The Pulley" by George Herbert
3. "Harmonie du soir" ("Evening Harmony") by Charles Baudelaire (French)
4. "Dirge Without Music" by Edna St. Vincent Millay
5. "Clancy of the Overflow" by A.B. "Banjo" Paterson
6. "Лотова жена" ("Lotova zhena", "Lot's wife") by Anna Akhmatova (Russian)
7. "The Jumblies" by Edward Lear
8. "The Conqueror Worm" by Edgar Allan Poe
9. "Les Djinns" ("The Jinns") by Victor Hugo (French)
10. "I Have a Rendezvous with Death" by Alan Seeger
11. "When I Was One-and-Twenty" by A.E. Housman
12. "Узник" ("Uznik", "The Prisoner" or "The Captive") by Aleksandr Pushkin (Russian)
13. "God's Grandeur" by Gerard Manley Hopkins
14. "The Song of Wandering Aengus" by William Butler Yeats
15. "Je crains pas ça tellment" ("I'm not that scard about") by Raymond Queneau (French)
16. "The Naming of Cats" by T.S. Eliot
17. "The reticent volcano keeps…" by Emily Dickinson
18. "Она" ("Ona", "She") by Zinaida Gippius (Russian)
19. "Would I Be Shrived?" by John D. Swain
20. "Evolution" by Langdon Smith
21. "Chanson d'automne" ("Autumn Song") by Oscar Milosz (French)
22. "love is more thicker than forget" by e.e. cummings
23. "My Three Loves" by Henry S. Leigh
24. "Я мечтою ловил уходящие тени" ("Ia mechtoiu lovil ukhodiashchie teni", "With my dreams I caught the departing shadows") by Konstantin Balmont (Russian)
25. "Dane-geld" by Rudyard Kipling
26. "Rules and Regulations" by Lewis Carroll
27. "Vers dorés" ("Golden Lines") by Gérard de Nerval (French)
28. "So That's Who I Remind Me Of" by Ogden Nash
29. "The Epic" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
30. "La chambre double" ("The Double Room") by Charles Baudelaire (French)
31. "Медный всадник" ("The Bronze Horseman") by Aleksandr Pushkin (Russian)
32. "Herbst" ("Autumn") by Rainer Maria Rilke (German)
33. "Romance de la luna, luna" ("Ballad of the Moon Moon") by Federico García Lorca (Spanish)
34. "The Four Friends" by A.A. Milne
35. "anyone lived in a pretty how town" by e.e. cummings
36. "Листья" ("Leaves") by Fyodor Tyutchev (Russian)
37. "The Pobble Who Has No Toes" by Edward Lear
38. "The Persian Version" by Robert Graves
39. "Les deux voix" ("The Two Voices") by Victor Hugo (French)
40. "Lines Written in Dejection" by William Butler Yeats
41. "Loveliest of Trees" by A.E. Housman
42. "Akh, chto-to mne ne veritsia…" ("Oh, somehow I can't believe…") by Bulat Okudzhava (Russian)