Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1909-01-16

being brought To the suffering family
in the little cottage at Fordham.
From the rccollections of these
friends let us make a composite pie
turc of Poe. AS a young man he was
of singularly attractive appearance,
though not strictly handsome; roman
tic of miom, with the pale cast of
thought adding the unusual effect of
pure intellectually. His face was al
ways palliG. The rather top heavy
breadth of forehead lent an air of
melancholy to the general placid eX-
preston he wore. Poe describes his
nose as Of "a delicate Hebrew model"
but not strongly so. He continues:
AN eye large, liquid, luminous; lips
somewhat thin and very pallid, but of
Il beautiful curve; finely nodded
chin, speaking in its want of prom
incnce of n want of moral energy; hair
(blackl of more than Wehlikc soft
ness and trnuity, left to grow all I'M
needed, 50 that it tloatcd rather than
fell about the face"
With a natural dignity of presence
dclibcrat0n of movement, Il gracious
smile but only at the right moment
and Il gentle, melodious voice, his en-
trance into amy companv was an i'm
prcSsfvc event. In conversation he
was never Il bore, but ever ready to
give freely of his varied store if en-
rnuroond IIn had the inherited taste
for dramotf,. iuternrctotion of genuine
literature and WAS constantly DELIGHT
inc m,iyote and public audiences with
rn9dinus or rcciltngs of his own best
mod noems With all his austcrity
no was rs ioyiaI rs thp rest in the
c;rcla. uf onnd reiI,wshin sparlIinr
with wifi brnor amin or sotiriral ribe.
Nve cam understand the charm of
.,,,r e, ,n,,,,,iu,tinn uf nI1Iitjcs The
nont nortirnI,r,v when thn aurcole of
r,mn crowns him king is ALWAYS in
un,iI nf Lniuo. sunilrd hv alteration. SO
If WINS ino,.itaLIn that Poe wouId nj
,,.,vs bovn , train of brauties. gen
iusn, vnlI lowered maids and ma
.rons, v.,iti,,,, I'm do ho,n,on at his
court TT;s yn,.y first cborrrr WAS n
voun, v.ifn whom he I'm his teens
throlIin, with tho memories of ro
mantle Tnr1ish hnroincs and scenes
silently, y,or,hfrnd MS tho only creature
II, ,.,,IIl o,.,,. l,,.o of coursn shn soon
1fod I,n+ n,.,,o,.. ant of tho ardent nont
I,,,.o,,,. e.,,I "IJnInn" 1,n,. n,rtb name
u.,. T,,,o which was foo nrosoic for
him h,,,.n,.,d evnrr,nro in his pure
sl,, tho .t,r Of his Vacant bnort tbe
inr,,i,,ti,n If nrnh,hIv all his most
,,.,,,i.ito ,,,,on,s
>ftor 1,a,. o,,,o , o,,,coevinn Of trun
ma anna I,,,.or, Of Poo tho moot wnm-
~, Who ,,.,,.,i,l or NOT ovnrnnyv with
tI,o orrn,ti,n Of oil con,ncIIing svmno-
th,. for ,.,,,,,,ori,I sou1s in tormont Ito
,,..,., oo,.I,. ,,,,,,.iod T., tbo cbiId N-ir
,,irio co,nor,. Inf uucuIturad doupbtar
of - GOOD woman tbon IN tho crush
i,,,, s.t,,,,,,,,,., ,,.i,I, ,r,i,,,,, n,.ortv to
u.hinh tbn r,,,s stnodiI,, added con-
s.,,,,,,,,io, f,,. tLo ,,,or ,,i,.I cumulotire
,,1Is,ri,, f,,r tI,o nathan ,nd co,rndfn,,
ooontos ~ sInv do.n,ir for tha moot,
,,i,.+i,, Of I,i., Guitar fattors ,rhoro v,,s
ca,.,L Dl,..+or It,, f,.,+ ,.o,,n,, 1ir+
Ill, tI,irt, ,.,.,r.. Iot,,. In his Ios+
,,.anI,, ~ ,ffn ,,,o, thoro v,ooItbv
,,.taa,,, ,.,,I,, r, ,,o,.,. and sovo him
Inf +no I,tn rhot WINS Invo and She
WON, ,,,iI,,,,.,, ,.oo,Is for him Mrs
Osgood Mr., show Mrs Lewis Mrs
,y,fi+,,,,,, ,,,.t 1o,.n,n1 of +hon, ,u
also u,,,Id h,vo ,,orr,nd nin, nc hIs