Alone - Edgar Allan Poe (Powerful Life Poetry)

Read by Shane Morris - Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, critic and editor best known for evocative short stories and poems that captured the imagination and interest of readers around the world. Alone’ is often considered Poe’s most revealing work and with good reason. Here the tormented mind of the literary genius is pulled back and we have a glimpse into the early hours of an abrupt and troubled life. - Full Poem: 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 ’r