Edgar Allan Poe

The Complete poems of Edgar Allan Poe

Poetry (1824)

This poem, most likely incomplete, was never printed in Poe’s lifetime. Its two lines were found written on a page of some of John Allan’s financial records. This is the earliest surviving manuscript in Poe’s own hand.

Last night, with many cares and toils oppress’d
Weary, I laid me on a couch to rest—

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