9. "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe was known for his sad poems about death and this one, which was actually the last poem he wrote, is no different. It explores the death of a ...

“Pearl,” rendered in complex rhymed stanzas, is a sad poem, an elegy on the death of a young girl. His new translation, “The Owl and the Nightingale,” is a venture of a different kin ...