Alone - Edgar Allan Poe (Powerful Life Poetry)

Read by Shane Morris
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Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, critic and editor best known for evocative short stories and poems that captured the imagination and interest of readers around the world.

Alone’ is often considered Poe’s most revealing work and with good reason. Here the tormented mind of the literary genius is pulled back and we have a glimpse into the early hours of an abrupt and troubled life.
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Full Poem:

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 -

[Soulwander]

My all time fave from Edgar Allen Poe. "And all I loved, I loved alone"

[arizhasan]

Sometimes I feel bad that YouTube doesn't have a heart button.

[mysimplelife]

And all I loved
I loved alone

Sad, but it's a masterpiece of a great poet !

[coolfitt]

Shane Morris is one of the best narrators
He narrates based on his own soul level relation with poems. I often listen through his voice to a piece more than I listen to a music perhaps everyday in the past few months. God bless you man looking forward to hear more from you.

[mehrajdin]

One of my favorites 💕💖💯....
Cried 😢

[Sameoldfitup]

“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.” “It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as

[thomaskelly]

How this man took tremendous pain and sorrow, and made it art. I grew up just a few blocks from Poe cottage in the Bronx. I wish I had an outlet for my pain. I love this man. A true genius. I probably memorized everything he ever wrote.

[armymoa]

" I could not bring
My passions from a common spring"
This line tells everything !!!

[romaniousvald-mont]

Why is not a spotify playlist!?!? Please!!! I love the content of this channel, the poems and narrators are superbly deep and amazing.

[patrickwolf]

My Favorite poem...It's my whole life in a few short sentences.... I've loved alone.

[Enigmalake]

Listening to this in the dark alone. It’s haunting

[sociologica]

my favorite poem of all times... magestic

[onlyjames]

🔥The reader makes this piece come to life

[swanh]

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
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 every 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 from
When the rest of heaven was blue
Of a demon in my view
Alone
by “edgar allen poe”🖤🖤

[esmaelotom]

All I love, I love alone a line that hits me differently

[vivekamar]

Khalil Gibran's Defeat recited by Shane Morris gives me goosebumps

[Squigglydodah]

The last few months I've found myself listening to the poems Shane Morris reads as often as I listen to music. He has his own playlist on my phone 👍

[vimalasuppiah]

So powerful and sad --- brings tears to my eyes. Reminds me of someone I know --- he doesn't even know I care 😭

[janiceward]

POE what a mind, absolutely deep as the ocean..Genius.!! read perfectly by Shane Morris..T.Y.

[itvistargupta]

"When the rest of heaven was blue, of a
Demon in my view"
I can relate
Shane I also recommend a poem called "Rendezvous With Death, "