If we compare _To One in Paradise_ with _To F----_ there will be no doubt that they were inspired by the same person and written at the same time, 1833, when the affair with Mary was over. In both poems references are made to his sweetheart being an isle in the sea and covered with flowers over which the sun smiles. In each poem mention is made of the desolate condition of the poet who derives happiness from living in dreams connected with her. _To F----_ is not as perfect as the other, but the idea underlying each poem is the same. The sonnet _To Zante_ also has the same imagery, and was written, no doubt, at the same time to Mary. _To One in Paradise_ is supposed to be written by the lover in the story _Assignation_, in which it appears. It will be recalled that the lover of Marchesa Aphrodite in that tale had written the poem in a volume of Politian's tragedy, a page of which was blotted with tears. Poe is that lover and Marchesa Aphrodite is Mary. But we know also that Poe is the author of the poem _Scenes from Politian_, which was written about the time he loved Mary. It was published in the _Southern Literary Messenger_ in December, 1835. In these scenes Poe identified himself with Politian, who loves Lalage and asks her to fly to America. "Wilt thou fly to that Paradise?" he asks her. The reference to Politian in _Assignation_ is then significant, and the tears on the leaf of the play shed by the lover of Marchesa Aphrodite, the dreamer, were Poe's own for his lost Mary. The poet looked upon her as dead to him, and hence in a later version of the poem to her, _To F----_, he changes the title to _To One Departed_; when he wrote _To One in Paradise_ he looked upon her as dead. Mary was, by the way, a name that haunted him, and in his _Marginalia_ he advances his belief in the correct theory that Byron's only real love affair was with Mary Chaworth. I am not so dogmatic as to maintain that in writing the _Assignation_ and the three poems I mentioned, and the Politian scenes, his other earlier loves did not unconsciously make themselves felt. Killis Campbell thinks _To One in Paradise_ and the sonnet _To Zante_ were written to Miss Royster. Poe may also have been thinking of the mother of his friend who died, in the poem _To One in Paradise_. But it is most likely that his love for Mary chiefly inspired these poems. They were certainly not written to Virginia, for in 1833 she was only 11 years old.