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Sonnet—Silence 757
Lenore 757
The Raven 758
Ulalume—a Ballad 761
A Dream Within a Dream 764
For Annie 765
To My Mother 768
Annabel Lee 768
Ligeia 770
The Fall of the House of Usher 783
The Masque of the Red Death 799
The Imp of the Perverse 804
The Purloined Letter 809
From “Twice-Told Tales, by Nathaniel Hawthorne” 825
The Philosophy of Composition 829
From The Poetic Principle 839
Nathaniel Hawthorne 846
My Kinsman, Major Molineux 849
Young Goodman Brown 865
The Maypole of Merry Mount 876
The Minister
S Black Veil 886
Ethan Brand 897
The Custom-House: Introduction to The Scarlet Letter 910
The Scarlet Letter 942
From The House of the Seven Gables 1086
From The Marble Faun 1088
Herman Melville 1090
The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids 1092
Benito Cereno 1111
Billy Budd 1180
The Portent 1249
Misgivings 1249
The March into Virginia 1250
Shiloh 1251
Malvern Hill 1252
The House-Top 1253
The College Colonel 1254
The Martyr 1255
The Aeolian Harp 1256
The Tuft of Kelp 1257