...The mimes become its food, And the angels sob at vermin fangs In human gore imbrued. Out — out are the lights — out all ! And, over each quivering...tragedy, " Man," And its hero the Conqueror Worm. ANNABEL LEE. IT was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom...

...to brood upon men as mimes, ironically cast " in the form of God on high," — mere puppets, where " the play is the tragedy, ' Man,' And its hero the Conqueror Worm," Use ofthe refrain and repetend, by Mrs. Browning and by Poe. Cp. '' Victorian Tacts": t- us" The Conqueror...

...to brood j upon men as mimes, ironically cast " in the form of God on high," — mere puppets, where "the play is the tragedy, 'Man,' And its hero the Conqueror Worm," Use of the refrain and repetend, by Mrs. Browning and by Poe. Cp. u Victorian l'oets": p. US" The Conqueror...

...comes down with the rush of a storm.' Poor Poe was right for once, though I need no angels to afiirm ' that the play is the tragedy, Man. and its hero the conqueror, Worn).' We shall meet again, Uncle Larry, arid until that meeting, God be with you, and God help me!...

...its food, And the angels sob at vermin fangs In human gore imbrued. Out—out are the lights—out all ! And, over each quivering form, The curtain,...the tragedy, "Man," And its hero the Conqueror Worm. THE COMPLETE POETICAL WOHKS OF EDGAR A. FOE, large, handsome type, with several fine illustrations,...

...In Poe the thought of death is always near, and of the shadowy borderland between death and life. " The play is the tragedy ' Man,' And its hero the Conqueror Worm," The prose tale, Ligeia, in which these verses are inserted, is one of the most powerful of all Poe's...

...The mimes become its food, And the seraphs sob at vermin fangs In human gore imbued. Out— out are the lights— out all ! And over each quivering form,...tragedy, " Man," And its hero, the Conqueror Worm. " 0 God ! " half-shrieked Ligeia, leaping to her feet and extending her arms aloft with a spasmodic movement,...

...The mimes become its food, And the seraphs sob at vermin fangs In human gore imbued. Out — out are the lights — out all ! And over each quivering form,...tragedy, " Man," And its hero, the conqueror Worm. " O God ! " half shrieked Ligeia, leaping to her feet and extending her arms aloft with a spasmodic...

...coming down " with the shock of a storm." TheJZnale is in full keeping with what had preceded it — " And the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising — unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, Man, And the hero THE CONQUBBOB WOBM. " And now the argument must be summed up and the verdict rendered. Attention...

...make so many Christian heroes and martyrs in the world? Is not the residue simply what the Angels— uprising, unveiling-, affirm, That the play is the Tragedy Man, And its hero the Conqueror Worm. The most deep rooted and powerful feeling of human nature— the love of a mother for her offspring...