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To----

by Edgar Allan Poe

19th-Century American · Short · 8 linesgrief

I heed not that my earthly lot Hath--little of Earth in it-- That years of love have been forgot In the hatred of a minute:-- I mourn not that the desolate Are happier, sweet, than I, But that _you_ sorrow for _my_ fate Who am a passer-by.

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Matched by documented rules, not taste: two points for every theme tag a poem shares with To----, one point for the same era, one for a similar length.

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