Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe Source: The Complete Poems and Stories of Edgar Allan Poe (1946) Book List: The summer dream beneath the tamarind tree? The Elfin from the green grass, and from me Hast thou not torn the Naiad from her flood, Hast thou not dragged Diana from her car, To seek for treasure in the jewelled skies, Who wouldst not leave him in his wandering How should he love thee? or how deem thee wise,
Why preyest thou thus upon the poet’s heart, Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes. Science! true daughter of Old Time thou art!
Edgar Allan Poe, from his review of Longfellow’s Ballads Sonnet – To Science
She is not forbidden to depict but to reason and preach of virtue. This handmaiden (poesy) is not forbidden to moralize in her own fashion. There are certain evil men who would be less dangerous if there were not some scrap of virtue in them. Didn’t they know that, bomb or no bomb, all men die, many in horrible ways? There is no good moping and sulking about it. One meets young people who make the threat of it a reason for poisoning every pleasure and evading every duty in the present. I am more concerned by what “the Bomb” is doing already.
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