Short Stories
The Fall of the House of Usher
The System of Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether
Essays
A Few Words on Secret Writing (on Cryptography)
“A West Point Lampoon” (alternate title of “Lines on Joe Locke”)
Poetry (all poems hosted by the Edgar Allen Poe Society of Baltimore)
- “An Acrostic”
- “Al Aaraaf”
- “Alone” (“From childhood’s hour, I have not been …”) (title assigned by E. L. Didier)
- “Alone” (“O! I care not that my earthly lot …”) (original title of “To M—”)
- “Annabel Lee”
- “Ballad” (alternate title of “Bridal Ballad”)
- “The Bells”
- “The Beautiful Physician” (alternate name for “Beloved Physician”)
- “Beloved Physician”
- “Bridal Ballad”
- “[A Campaign Song]”
- “Catholic Hymn” (original title of “Hymn”)
- “The City in the Sea”
- “The City of Sin” (an early title of “The City in the Sea”)
- “The Coliseum”
- “The Conqueror Worm”
- “[Couplet (Deep in Earth My Love is Lying)]” (alternate title of “Deep in Earth”)
- “[Deep in Earth]”
- “The Divine Right of Kings”
- “[Don Pompioso]” [no text] (see Mabbott, Poems, 1:7)
- “The Doomed City” (original title of “The City in the Sea”)
- “A Dream”
- “A Dream within a Dream”
- “Dream-Land” (also “Dreamland”)
- “Dreams”
- “Eldorado”
- “Elizabeth”
- “Enigma” [On Shakespeare]
- “An Enigma” (Sarah Anna Lewis) (written about November 1847)
- “[Epigram for Wall Street]” (rejected)
- “[Epigram from Pulci]” (rejected)
- “[Epistola ad Magistrum]” [no text] (see Mabbott, Poems, 1:4-5)
- “Eulalie”
- “Evangeline” (title assigned to the longest of what are sometimes called “Model Verses”)
- “Evening Star”
- “Fairyland” (also “Fairy-Land”)
- “Fanny”
- “[Farewell to Master Clarke]” [no text] (see Mabbott, Poems, 1:5)
- “The Firefiend” (rejected)
- “For Annie” (“Thank Heaven! the crisis …”)
- “For Annie” (“All that we see or seem …”) (alternate title for a manuscript version of “A Dream within a Dream”)
- “[Fragment of a Campaign Song]” (alternate title of “[A Campaign Song]”)
- “From an Album” [“Elizabeth, it is in vain you say …”] (alternate title of “An Acrostic”)
- “From an Album (Alone)” [“From childhood’s hour, I have not been …”] (alternate title of “Alone”)
- “The Happiest Day” (also “The Happiest Day, the Happiest Hour”)
- “The Haunted Palace”
- “Helen, Thy Beauty is to Me” (alternate title of “To Helen,” used in the table of contents of the revised American edition of 1876, but probably printed late in 1875)
- “[Hexameter]” (see Mabbott, Poems, 1:339)
- “[Holy Eyes]” [no text has survived] (see Mabbott, Poems, 1:404-405)
- “Hymn” (final title change of “Catholic Hymn”)
- “Imitation”
- “[Impromptu. To Kate Carol]”
- “In Youth I have known one” (alternate title of “Stanzas”)
- “Introduction” (later title of “Preface” from ATMP and alternate title of “Romance”)
- “Irene” (original form of “The Sleeper”)
- “Israfel”
- “The Lake”
- “[Latin Hymn]” (from “Epimianes”)
- “Lenore”
- “Ligeia” (This title is used in Lowell’s 1845 article on Poe, but it is actually an excerpt from “Al Aaraaf” It is unrelated to the short story that actually is named “Ligeia.”
- “[Lines after Elizabeth Barrett]”
- “Lines on Ale” (rejected)
- “[Lines on Joe Locke]” (written about 1831)
- “[Lines to Joe Locke]” (alternate title of “Lines on Joe Locke”)
- “Lines to Richmond Schoolgirls” [no Text] (see Mabbott, Poems, 1:3-4)
- “Lines Written in an Album” (original title of “To F——s S. O——d”)
- “Lines Written in a Contest” [no Text] (see Mabbott, Poems, 1:501-502)
- “May Queen Ode”
- “[Model Verses]” (generic title of examples composed for “The Rationale of Verse,” including one called “Evangeline”)
- “Monody on Dr. Olmstead” (doubtful)
- “[Motto for ‘The Gold-Bug’]” (see Mabbott, Poems, 1:329)
- “[Motto for the Stylus]” (see Mabbott, Poems, 1:328-329)
- “[Motto for ‘William Wilson’]” (see Mabbott, Poems, 1:319-320)
- “The Messenger Star” (alternate title apparently used by Poe for his 1845 Boston Lyceum reading of “Al Aaraaf,” from ATMP, 1829)
- “The Mysterious Star” (special title introduced by Mabbott for revised version of “Al Aaraaf,” from POEMS, 1831)
- “O, Tempora! O, Mores!”
- “Original [Alone]” (“From childhood’s hour, I have not been …”) (title used on Poe’s manuscript. Assigned as “Alone” by E. L. Didier.)
- “A Paean”
- “[Parody on Drake]” (see Mabbott, Poems, 1:301-302)
- “Preface” (original title in ATMP of “Introduction” from POEMS, and later called “Romance”)
- “Poetry”
- “The Poets and Poetry of America” (signed by the pseudonym “Lavante”) (rejected)
- “Politian” (a dramatic stage play in verse)
- “[Satire on the Junior Debating Society]” [no text] (see Mabbott, Poems, 1:6-7)
- “Scenes from an Unpublished Drama” (excerpts from “Politian,” a dramatic stage play in verse)
- “Scenes from ‘Politian’ ” (excerpts from a dramatic stage play in verse)
- “Serenade”
- “Silence” (later title of “Sonnet — To Silence”)
- “The Sleeper”
- “Song”
- “Song of the Newly-Wedded” (variant title of “Bridal Ballad”)
- “[Song of Triumph]” (from “Epimanes”)
- “Sonnet” (original title of “An Enigma”)
- “Sonnet — Silence” (original title of “Silence”)
- “Sonnet — To My Mother” (original title of “To My Mother”)
- “Sonnet — To Science”
- “Sonnet — To Zante” (original title of “To Zante”)
- “Spirits of the Dead”
- “Spiritual Song”
- “Stanzas” (“In youth have I known one …) (title assigned by Stedman and Woodberry)
- “Stanzas” [To F. S. O.]
- “Tamerlane”
- “To —” [“I heed not that my … “] (alternate title of “To M—”)
- “To —” [“I saw thee on the bridal day …”] (alternate title of “Song”)
- “To —” [“Not long ago, the writer of these lines …”] (alternate title of “To Marie Louise”)
- “To —” [“Should my early life seem …”] (early form of “A Dream within a Dream”)
- “To —” [“Take this kiss upon thy brow …”] (alternate title for “A Dream within a Dream”)
- “To —” [Elmira] [“The bowers whereat … “]
- “To ——” [“Sleep on, sleep on, another hour …”]
- “To ——” [Violet Vane]
- “To —— —— ——” [“I saw thee once…”] (alternate title of “To Helen [Whitman]”)
- “To Elizabeth” (early title of “To F——s S. O——d”)
- “[To Elizabeth Winchester — Impromptu]” [no text has survived] (see Mabbott, Poems, 1:339-340)
- “To F——” (later title of “To Mary” and “To Frances”)
- “To F——s S. O——d” [Frances Sargent Osgood]
- “To Frances” (later title of “To Mary” and earlier title of “To F——”)
- “To Helen” [“Helen, thy beauty is to me …”]
- “To Helen” [Sarah Helen Whitman] [“I saw thee once…”]
- “To Her Whose Name is Written Below” (original title for “A Valentine”)
- “To Ianthe in Heaven” (early title of “To One in Paradise”)
- “To Irene” (alternate, although erroneous, title to “Irene” and “The Sleeper”)
- “To Irene” (“Thou wert alone — thy harp was mute …”) (possibly by Poe)
- “[To Isaac Lea]” (rejected)
- “To M—” [“I heed not that my …”]
- “To M. L. S———” [Marie Lousie Shew] (written February 14, 1847)
- “To Margaret”
- “To Marie Louise [Shew]”
- “To Mary” (original title of “To Frances”)
- “[To Mary Starr]” [no text has survived] (see Mabbott, Poems, 1:232-233)
- “To Miss Louise Olivia Hunter” (rejected)
- “To My Mother” (later title for “Sonnet — To My Mother”)
- “[To Octavia]” (rejected)
- “To One Beloved” (early title of “To One in Paradise”)
- “To One Departed” (alternate title of “To Frances”)
- “To One in Paradise”
- “To the River ——” [Po]
- “To Science” (alternate title for “Sonnet — To Science”)
- “To Zante” (later title for “Sonnet — To Zante”)
- “[Translation from Tasso]” [no text] (see Mabbott, Poems, 1:13)
- “The Trumpet Reveillee” (possibly by Poe)
- “Ulalume”
- “A Valentine”
- “The Valley Nis” (original title of “The Valley of Unrest”)
- “The Valley of Unrest”
- “Visit of the Dead” (original title of “Spirits of the Dead”)
Supplementary Material
Edgar Poe: The Lost Soul of America by Alan Salisbury (Campaigner 1981)
