The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe The Raven Edition VOLUME V. Contents PHILOSOPHY OF FURNITURE A TALE OF JERUSALEM THE SPHINX HOP-FROG THE MAN OF THE CROWD NEVER BET THE DEVIL YOUR HEAD THOU ART THE MAN WHY THE LITTLE FRENCHMAN WEARS HIS HAND IN A SLING BON-BON SOME WORDS WITH A MUMMY THE POETIC PRINCIPLE OLD ENGLISH POETRY =POEMS= PREFACE POEMS OF LATER LIFE THE RAVEN THE BELLS ULALUME TO HELEN ANNABEL LEE A VALENTINE AN ENIGMA FOR ANNIE TO F—— TO FRANCES S. OSGOOD ELDORADO TO MARIE LOUISE (SHEW) O MARIE LOUISE (SHEW) THE CITY IN THE SEA THE SLEEPER NOTES =POEMS OF MANHOOD= LENORE TO ONE IN PARADISE THE COLISEUM THE HAUNTED PALACE THE CONQUEROR WORM SILENCE DREAM-LAND HYMN TO ZANTE SCENES FROM “POLITIAN” POEMS OF YOUTH INTRODUCTION TO POEMS—1831 _LETTER TO MR. B—._ SONNET—TO SCIENCE AL AARAAF TAMERLANE TO HELEN THE VALLEY OF UNREST ISRAFEL TO —— TO —— TO THE RIVER—— SONG SPIRITS OF THE DEAD A DREAM ROMANCE FAIRY-LAND THE LAKE —— TO—— EVENING STAR “THE HAPPIEST DAY.” IMITATION HYMN TO ARISTOGEITON AND HARMODIUS DREAMS “IN YOUTH I HAVE KNOWN ONE” NOTES =DOUBTFUL POEMS= ALONE TO ISADORE THE VILLAGE STREET THE FOREST REVERIE NOTES PHILOSOPHY OF FURNITURE. In the internal decoration, if not in the external architecture of their residences, the English are supreme. The Italians have but little sentiment beyond marbles and colours. In France, _meliora probant, deteriora _sequuntur—the people are too much a race of gadabouts to maintain those household proprieties of which, indeed, they have a delicate appreciation, or at least the elements of a proper sense. The Chinese and most of the eastern races have a warm but inappropriate fancy. The Scotch are _poor _decorists. The Dutch have, perhaps, an indeterminate idea that a curtain is not a cabbage. In Spain they are _all _curtains—a nation of hangmen. The Russians do not furnish. The Hottentots and Kickapoos are very well in their way. The Yankees alone are preposterous. How this happens, it is not difficult to see. We have no aristocracy of blood, and having therefore as a natural, and indeed as an inevitable thing, fashioned for ourselves an aristocracy of dollars, the _display of wealth _has here to take the place and perform the office of the heraldic display in monarchical countries. By a transition readily understood, and which might have been as readily foreseen, we have been brought to merge in simple _show_ our notions of taste itself.