CONTENTS

       Cover

       Title Page

      Copyright

      History of William Collins

      Life & Times

       The Raven

      The Raven

       Selected Poems 1827–1849

A Dream

A Dream within a Dream

Dreams

Evening Star

“In Youth I Have Known One” (Stanzas)

Song

Spirits of the Dead

Tamerlane

“The Happiest Day, the Happiest Hour”

The Lake

Al Aaraaf

       Alone

       Elizabeth

       Fairy-Land

       Romance

       Sonnet—To Science

       To– – (“I heed not that my earthly lot”)

       To– – (“The bowers whereat, in dreams, I see”)

       To the River

       A Pæan

       Israfel

       Lenore

       The City in the Sea

       The Sleeper

       The Valley of Unrest

       To Helen (“Helen, thy beauty is to me”)

       Serenade

       The Coliseum

       To One in Paradise

       Hymn

       To F— — (“Beloved! amid the earnest woes”)

       To Frances S. Osgood

       Bridal Ballad

       Sonnet—To Zante

       The Haunted Palace

       Sonnet—Silence

       The Conqueror Worm

       Dream-Land

       Epigram for Wall Street

       Eulalie—A Song

       A Valentine

       To Marie Louise Shew (“Of all who hail thy presence as the morning”)

       Ulalume—A Ballad

       An Enigma

       To Marie Louise Shew (“Not long ago, the writer of these lines”)

       To Helen (“I saw thee once—once only— years ago”)

       Annabel Lee

       Eldorado

       For Annie

       The Bells

       To My Mother

       Classic Literature: Words and Phrases

       About the Publisher

       History of William Collins

      In 1819, millworker William Collins from Glasgow, Scotland, set up a company for printing and publishing pamphlets, sermons, hymn books and prayer books. That company was Collins and was to mark the birth of HarperCollins Publishers as we know it today. The long tradition of Collins dictionary publishing can be traced back to the first dictionary William published in 1824, Greek and English Lexicon. Indeed, from 1840 onwards, he began to produce illustrated dictionaries and even obtained a licence to print and publish the Bible.

      Soon after, William published the first Collins novel, Ready Reckoner; however, it was the time of the Long Depression, where harvests were poor, prices were high, potato crops had failed and violence was erupting in Europe. As a result, many factories across the country were forced to close down and William chose to retire in 1846, partly due to the hardships he was facing.

      Aged 30, William’s son, William II, took over the business. A keen humanitarian with a warm heart and a generous spirit, William II was truly “Victorian” in his outlook. He introduced new, up-to-date steam presses and published affordable editions of Shakespeare’s works and The Pilgrim’s Progress, making them available to the masses for the first time. A new demand for educational books meant that success came with the publication of travel books, scientific books, encyclopedias and dictionaries. This demand to be educated led to the later publication of atlases, and Collins also held the monopoly on scripture writing at the time.

      In the 1860s Collins began to expand and diversify and the idea of “books