Edgar Allan Poe

“And all I lov’d—I lov’d alone—”

Edgar Allan Poe, “Alone” (written c. 1829; published 1875, Scribner’s Monthly)

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Edgar Allan Poe

Source

Edgar Allan Poe, “Alone” (written c. 1829; published 1875, Scribner’s Monthly)

In full

“And all I lov’d—I lov’d alone—”

Status

Public domain in the United States

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About this line

Poe wrote “Alone” as a young man and never tried to publish it. It only surfaced in 1875, more than two decades after his death, reproduced in facsimile — his actual hand — in Scribner’s Monthly. The poem opens: “From childhood’s hour I have not been / As others were.” He wasn’t performing alienation. He was reporting 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.