Poetry reading of Alone by Edgar Allan Poe. Poe is known nowadays as a master of gothic poetry and undoubtedly the most famous poet of the genre. But back when he wrote 'Alone' he was an unknown 20-year-old with no knowledge of his future fame.

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Full poem text, public domain (also available in subtitles):

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 ’round me roll’d
In its autumn tint of gold—
From the lightning in the sky
As it pass’d me flying by—
From the thunder, and the storm—
And the cloud that took the form
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view—

Alone - written by Edgar Allan Poe
Narrated by Jordan Harling

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Background music:

https://musopen.org/music/3255/bela-bartok/allegro-barbaro-sz49/

Allegro Barbaro, Sz.49 - composed by Béla Bartók, performed by Simone Renzi, available from https://musopen.org/ (CC BY 3.0)

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Author image:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AEdgar_Allan_Poe_2_retouched_and_transparent_bg.png

By Edgar_Allan_Poe_2.jpg: Edwin H. Manchester derivative work: Beao (Edgar_Allan_Poe_2.jpg) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

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