from the complete tales and poems of Edgar Allan Poe
~ Aries: "Who calls you now -
Arise! from your dreaming. In violet bowers,
These star-litten hours-
Up! Shake from your wing
Each hindering thing: the dew of the night could weigh down your flight;"
~Taurus: "But now, my soul has too much room -
Gone are the glory and the gloom. The black has mellowed into grey,
And all the fires are fading away"
~ Gemini: "The noblest name in Allegory's page,
The hand that traced inexorable rage;
A pleasing moralist whose page refined,
Displays the deepest knowledge of the mind;
These names when rightly read, a name known
Which gathers all their glories in its own"
~Cancer: "At midnight in the month of June, I stand beneath the mystic moon. An opiate vapour, dewy, dim,
Exhales from out her golden rim"
~Leo: "Look round the now on Samarcand! -
Is she not queen of Earth? her pride
Above all cities? in her hand
Their destinies? in all beside
Of glory which the world has known
Stands she not nobly and alone?"
Virgo~ "And by strange alchemy of brain
His pleasures always turned to pain -
His naïveté to wild desire -
His wits to love - his wine to fire"
~ Libra: "The ring is on my hand,
And the wreath is on my brow;
Satins and jewels grand
Are all at my command,
And I am happy now!"
~ Scorpio: "Death has reared himself a throne
In a strange city lying alone
Far down within the dim West
Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best
Have gone to their eternal rest
While from a proud tower in the town
Death looks gigantically down"
~Sagittarius: "By a route obscure and lonely
Haunted by ill angels only,
From a wild weird climb that lie, sublime,
Out of Space - out of Time
But the traveler, traveling through it,
May nit - dare openly view it;
Never its mysteries are exposed
To the weak human eye unclosed"
~Capricorn: "It was my choice or chance or curse
To adopt the cause for better or worse
And with my worldly goods & wit
And my soul & body worship it..."
~Aquarius ~ "A green isle in the sea, love,
A fountain and a shrine
All wreathed with fairy fruits and flowers,
And all the flowers were mine"
~ Pisces: "And thus my memory is to me
Like some enchanted far off-isle
In some tumultuous sea
Some ocean throbbing far and free. With storms - but where meanwhile
Serenest skies continually"
~extracts from the complete tales and poems of Edgar Allan Poe (Capricorn Sun, Virgo rising, Pisces Moon)
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