One of the most famous poems in the English language, The Raven first appeared in the January 29. 1845 edition of the New York Evening Mirror. It brought Edgar Allan Poe, then in his mid-thirties and a well-known poet, critic and short story writer, his first taste of celebrity on a grand scale. The Raven remains Poe's best-known work, yet it is only one of the dazzling series of poems and stories that won him an enduring place in world literature. This volume contains The Raven and 40 others of Edgar Allan Poe's most memorable poems. To -- -- ("I saw thee on thy bridal day") -- Dreams -- Spirits of the dead -- Evening star -- A dream within a dream -- Stanzas -- A dream -- The happiest day, the happiest hour -- The lake : to -- -- Sonnet : to Science -- Romance -- To -- ("The bowers whereat, in dreams, I see") -- To the River -- -- To -- ("I heed not that my earthly lot") -- Fairy-land -- To Helen ("Helen, thy beauty is to me") -- Israfel -- The city in the sea -- The sleeper -- Lenore -- The valley of unrest -- The Coliseum -- To one in paradise -- To F-- -- Sonnet : to Zante -- The haunted palace -- Sonnet : silence -- The conqueror worm -- Dream-land -- The raven -- Eulalie : a song -- To M.L. S-- -- Ulalume -- To -- -- ("Not long ago, the writer of these lines") -- To Helen ("I saw thee once, once only, years ago") -- Eldorado -- For Annie -- To my mother -- Annabel Lee -- The bells -- Alone.