One stanza in this poem describes the moon as "Astarte's bediamonded crescent/ Distinct with its duplicate horn," and in a subsequent stanza, this poem's narrator consoles another character who claims to mistrust its "strange pallor.
One stanza in this poem describes the moon as "Astarte's bediamonded crescent/ Distinct with its duplicate horn," and in a subsequent stanza, this poem's narrator consoles another character who claims to mistrust its "strange pallor." This poem's second stanza recalls a time when the narrator's "heart was volcanic/ As the scoriac rivers that roll," and this poem's opening lines recall the (*) "lonesome October of my most immemorial year." Another October is recalled in this poem's last stanza, as the narrator remembers bringing a "dread burden," to the shores of the lake of Auber. For ten points, identify this poem whose narrator roams with Psyche "in the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir," until he discovers the vault of the titular dead woman, written by Edgar Allan Poe.
One stanza in this poem describes the moon as "Astarte's bediamonded crescent/ Distinct with its duplicate horn," and in a subsequent stanza, this poem's narrator consoles another character who claims to mistrust its "strange pallor.
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