Skip to content

  • Terms
  • Privacy Policy

“The Happiest Day” by Edgar Allan Poe

“The Happiest Day” is a poem composed by Edgar Allan Poe.

The Happiest Day

The happiest day — the happiest hour
My sear’d and blighted heart hath known,
The highest hope of pride and power,
I feel hath flown.Of power! said I? yes! such I ween;
But they have vanish’d long, alas!
The visions of my youth have been-
But let them pass.

And, pride, what have I now with thee?
Another brow may even inherit
The venom thou hast pour’d on me
Be still, my spirit!

The happiest day — the happiest hour
Mine eyes shall see — have ever seen,
The brightest glance of pride and power,
I feel- have been:

But were that hope of pride and power
Now offer’d with the pain
Even then I felt — that brightest hour
I would not live again:

For on its wing was dark alloy,
And, as it flutter’d — fell
An essence — powerful to destroy
A soul that knew it well.

Related posts:

The Sun Has Long Been Set by William Wordsworth
Valentine Day Poems for Him
We Had Him by Maya Angelou
Sonnet 66: Tired With All These, For Restful Death I Cry by William Shakespeare

Post navigation

Previous Post:

Romance by Edgar Allan Poe

Next Post:

The Haunted Palace by Edgar Allan Poe

Categories

  • Captions
  • Ideas
  • Jokes
  • Letters
  • Messages
  • Names
  • Pictures
  • Poems
  • Prayers
  • Proverbs
  • Questions
  • Quotes
  • Songs
  • Statuses
  • Tributes
  • Wishes
© 2023 . All Right Reserved.
An online collection of free Sample Messages, Quotes, Wishes, Letters, Prayers, Poems, Speeches, Pictures and Statuses for your everyday use.
Go to mobile version