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Virginia Clemm's Birthday: A Valentine FROM VC POE to EA Poe

Brought to you by The National Edgar Allan Poe Theatre (www.poetheatre.org) Help us bring Poe-themed audio dramas to listeners everywhere: https://givebutter.com/Doomsday2024 Today, August 15, 2024, is the two hundred second anniversary of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe’s wife, Virginia Clemm Poe. Not known for her poetry or writing, Virginia wrote a Valentine’s Day poem for her husband on February 14, 1846. She died less than a year later at the age of 24. This Valentine’s Day poem was written as an acrostic, with the first letter in each line spelling the name Edgar Allan Poe. A Valentine from V.C. Poe to E.A. Poe Ever with thee I wish to roam — Dearest my life is thine. Give me a cottage for my home And a rich old cypress vine, Removed from the world with its sin and care And the tattling of many tongues. Love alone shall guide us when we are there — Love shall heal my weakened lungs; And Oh, the tranquil hours we’ll spend, Never wishing that others may see! Perfect ease we’ll enjoy, without thinking to lend Ourselves to the world and its glee — Ever peaceful and blissful we’ll be.