Edgar Allen Poe - Various Works - Poe Returns to Boston Statue - Boston, MA - Etched in Stone on Waymarking.com

In Boston, at the corner of Charles Street and Boylston Street, is a statue of Edgar Allen Poe, which has parts embedded in the sidewalk with quotes from various works, as if they had fallen from his open suitcase as he walks.

The statue is on the southeast corner of this intersection, in a bricked plaza that bears the designation of Edgar Allen Poe Square. If you walk to the Boylston Street side and around to the other corner you can see a plaque that states that near this site Edgar Poe was born.

The quotes are in the brick, in a line behind the sculpture. The quotes are as follows:

1:

"I reach’d my home — my home no more —
For all was flown that made it so —
I pass’d from out its mossy door,
In vacant idleness of woe.

From Tamerlane Included in Poe's first book
'Tamerlane and other Poems by a Bostonian'
printed in Boston by Calvin F. S. Thomas in 1827"


2:

""Villains!" I shrieked, "dissemble no
more! I admit the deed! --tear up the
planks! here, here! --It is
the beating of his hideous heart!"

From the Tell Tale Heart, first published
in the Pioneer, a Boston literary magazine,
in January 1843."


3:

"The Bostonians are very well in
their way. Their hotels are bad
Their pumpkin pies are delicious
Their poetry is not good. Their
Common is no common thing --
and the duck pond might answer
-- if its answer could be heard for
the frogs.

From 'Editorial Miscellany,' Broadway
Journal a New York literary magazine
November 1, 1843"

4:

"All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream."

From 'A Dream within a Dream, first
published in The Flag of Our Union, a Boston
newspaper, on March 31, 1849

5:

"We want characters -- characters,
man -- something novel -- out of the way.
We are wearied with this
everlasting sameness. Come, drink!
the wine will brighten your wits.

From 'Hop Frog.' first published in The Flag
of Our Union, a Boston newspaper, on March 7, 1849


6:

"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,”

From 'Sonnet - To My Mother' first published in
The Flag of Our Union, a Boston newspaper, on
July 7, 1849."

Have fun walking among the papers. What is your favorite?

Address: Charles Street and Boylston Street Boston Website: [Web Link]

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