Tamerlane Edgar Allen Poe

O, human love! thou spirit given,

On Earth, of all we hope in Heaven!

Which fall'st into the soul like rain

Upon the Siroc-wither'd plain,

And, failing in thy power of bless,

But leav'st the heart a wilderness!

Idea! which bindest life around
With music of so strange a sound
And beauty of so wild a birth-
Farewell! for I have won the Earth.

Commentary: In this section of the Tamerlane poem Poe talks about love as portrayed in the first rhyme scheme. This is actually a much brighter poem than most of his work in poetry. It compares many things of nature to the feeling and emotion of love. As well as in the end it shows that by obtaining love Poe shows that he now has the earth.

SO STANDS THE JUDGEMENT!!!