just a lucky little lady in the city of light - POST A POEM MEME

I couldn't resist doing this meme. Seriously. Got it from lenabee. Now the only trouble is, what poem am I going to pick? Because there are SO MANY that I love...

Dickinson, Dunbar, Poe, Browning, Blake...shit. I can't choose.

When you see this, post a poem you like on your LJ.



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" by Edgar Allan Poe