1902 collected edition

To My Mother (historical reading)

Read To My Mother in a locally preserved historical transcription. Historical reading from James A. Harrison’s 1902 edition, volume VII. This is a later collected text, not the original printing or a manuscript scan. Paragraph and verse-line boundaries are retained; typography is simplified.

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Original publication: To My Mother
Date: 1902 collected edition
Credits: Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher: Thomas Y. Crowell & Company
Published in: New York
Reference collection: Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore

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Historical reading from James A. Harrison’s 1902 edition, volume VII. This is a later collected text, not the original printing or a manuscript scan. Paragraph and verse-line boundaries are retained; typography is simplified.

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To My Mother Historical reading from James A. Harrison’s 1902 edition, volume VII. This is a later collected text, not the original printing or a manuscript scan. Paragraph and verse-line boundaries are retained; typography is simplified. TO MY MOTHER. BECAUSE I feel that, in the Heavens above, The angels, whispering to one another, Can find, among their burning terms of love, None so devotional as that of “Mother,” Therefore by that dear name I long have called you — You who are more than mother unto me, And fill my heart of hearts, where Death installed you In setting my Virginia's spirit free. My mother — my own mother, who died early, Was but the mother of myself; but you Are mother to the one I loved so dearly, And thus are dearer than the mother I knew By that infinity with which my wife Was dearer to my soul than its soul-life.

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Thomas Y. Crowell & Company. “To My Mother (historical reading).” 1902 collected edition. To My Mother. Crypt of Echoes evidence ID LED-2026-8b4b299ed2eb40d2a2cc2171494926c9. https://cryptofechoes.com/evidence/LED-2026-8b4b299ed2eb40d2a2cc2171494926c9. Accessed [date].

Catalogue citation: Edgar Allan Poe. To My Mother. James A. Harrison, Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (1902), volume VII.

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