"Star of resplendent front! Thy glorious eye Shines on me still from out yon clouded sky."
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Essayists from the United StatesPoets from the United States19th-century poets from the United StatesPoets from Rhode Island
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"Arcturus" (To Edgar Allan Poe, October 1849), line 1, p. 86.
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Sarah Helen Whitman
Sarah Helen Power Whitman (January 19, 1803 – June 27, 1878) was a poet, essayist, transcendentalist, Spiritualist and a romantic interest of Edgar Allan Poe.
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