Edgar Allan Poe · “Alone”
“And all I lov’d—I lov’d alone—”
| Source | Edgar Allan Poe, “Alone” (written c. 1829; published 1875) |
| Published | Scribner’s Monthly, 1875 — reproduced in facsimile |
| Spelling | “lov’d” is Poe’s own — preserved, not modernized |
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About This Line
Poe wrote “Alone” as a young man and never published it; it surfaced only in 1875, reproduced in facsimile in Scribner’s Monthly. The poem traces a sense of being set apart from the start — “From childhood’s hour I have not been / As others were.” We print “lov’d” the way he wrote it, not the way later editors smoothed it.
Why We Carry This Line
We kept “lov’d” the way he wrote it, not the way editors tidied it. Then a friend shared she adores that it’s not the “normal” Poe fare. Sealed it. It’s his hand, not the editors — that mattered to me.
