In spite of his scorn for their pretensions, Edgar Allan Poe, in his way ... wrote a ballad under the title of Lenore. The composition of this ballad was due to Herder's famous appeal to the ...

Eagerly I wished the morrow:—vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow—sorrow for the lost Lenore— For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore— Nameless here for ...