. American lands and letters . Tamerlane is printed in we catch one little six-line verse from it,to show how the limner of the Raven pitchedhis first song?— We grew in age—and love—together—Roaming the forest and the wild,My breast her shield in wintry weather; And when the friendly sunshine smiles,And she would mark the opening skies,I saw no Heaven—but in her eyes. But from the poor, thin book (pp. 40), ofwhich a late copy commanded $1,800, nomoney came and no fame; he enlists in thearmy (1827) under the name of E. F. Perry—giving his age as two or three years greaterthan dates w
. American lands and letters . Tamerlane is printed in we catch one little six-line verse from it,to show how the limner of the Raven pitchedhis first song?— We grew in age—and love—together—Roaming the forest and the wild,My breast her shield in wintry weather; And when the friendly sunshine smiles,And she would mark the opening skies,I saw no Heaven—but in her eyes. But from the poor, thin book (pp. 40), ofwhich a late copy commanded $1,800, nomoney came and no fame; he enlists in thearmy (1827) under the name of E. F. Perry—giving his age as two or three years greaterthan dates warrant; is Sergeant-Major atFortress Monroe (1829); gets dischargethrough agency of friends, and by similaragency receives appointment as cadet at WestPoint; grows tired of this, and after a year isdismissed—by a court-martial which he hashimself invited—his scholarly rating puttinghim third in French, and seventeenth in mathe-matics, in a class of eighty-seven. He has twelve cents to his credit at leaving; 230. Facsimile of the title-page of Poes first bookFrom the copy in the possession of Thomas J. McKee, Esq., of New York AMERICAN LANDS & LETTERS his pride intense, yet his mates make up a pursewhich gives him a start; and within the year(1831) there is a fresh, thin booklet^ ofpoems, old and new—among them the firststirrings of the lyre of Israfel, Whose heart-strings are a lute, making echoes that are not yet dead. But the cadets do not relish the little green-covered volume, nor do many others; so hewanders southward—wins a prize for his storyof MS. found in a Bottle; encounters for thefirst time J. P. Kennedy, who is his stanchfriend thereafter always; sometimes he is sunkin the depths of poverty, and sometimes regal-ing himself in such over-joyous ways as havesad and fateful reaction. Among the paternalrelatives he falls in with at Baltimore is thewidowed sister of his father—Mrs. Clemm,with her daughter of eleven (the archetype ofhis delightful fl
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