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"Never Bet the Devil Your Head: A Moral Tale", later republished as "Never Bet the Devil Your Head", is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1841. The satirical tale pokes fun at the notion that all literature should have a moral and spoofs transcendentalism. The narrator, presented as the author himself, is dismayed by literary critics saying that he has never written a moral tale. The narrator then begins telling the story of his friend Toby Dammit.

To–– (1836): Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories. The bowers whereat, in dreams, I see The wantonest singing birds Are lips—and all thy melody Of lip-begotten words—

"The Business Man" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe about a businessman boasting of his accomplishments. It was published in February 1840 in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine. The story questions the concept of a self-made man. The narrator of the story is Peter Proffit, a "methodical" businessman by his own admission. He says a nurse swung him around when he was a young boy, and he bumped his head against a bedpost. That single event determined his fate: the resulting bump was in the area dedicated to system and regularity, according to phrenology.

Hymn to Aristogeiton and Harmodius: Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories. Wreathed in myrtle, my sword I'll conceal Like those champions devoted and brave, When they plunged in the tyrant their steel, And to Athens deliverance gave.

To Marie Louise (Shew) II: Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories. In the mad pride of intellectuality, Maintained "the power of words"—denied that ever A thought arose within the human brain Beyond the utterance of the human tongue: And now, as if in mockery of that boast, Two words—two foreign soft dissyllables—

"The Duc de L'Omelette" is a humorous short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published in the Philadelphia Saturday Courier on March 3, 1832, and was subsequently revised a number of times by the author. The Duc de L'Omelette dies while dining on an ortolan and finds himself in hell: an apartment filled with various works of art that has a window overlooking a fiery landscape. Face to face with Satan, the Duc manages to avoid damnation by cheating him at a game of cards.

To Isadore: Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories. Beneath the vine-clad eaves, Whose shadows fall before Thy lowly cottage door Under the lilac's tremulous leaves—

During the dread reign of the Cholera in New York, I had accepted the invitation of a relative to spend a fortnight with him in the retirement of his cottage orné on the banks of the Hudson. We had here around us all the ordinary means of summer amusement; and what with rambling in the woods, sketching, boating, fishing, bathing, music and books, we should have passed the time pleasantly enough, but for the fearful intelligence which reached us every morning from the populous city.

Dreams: Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories. Oh! that my young life were a lasting dream! My spirit not awak'ning, till the beam Of an Eternity should bring the morrow: Yes! tho' that long dream were of hopeless sorrow, 'Twere better than the dull reality

Bridal Ballad: Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories. The ring is on my hand, And the wreath is on my brow; Satins and jewels grand Are all at my command, And I am happy now.

Alone: Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories. From childhood's hour I have not been As others were—I have not seen As others saw—I could not bring My passions from a common spring—

Eulalie: Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories. Ah, less—less bright The stars of the night Than the eyes of the radiant girl! And never a flake That the vapour can make With the moon-tints of purple and pearl, Can vie with the modest Eulalie's most unregarded curl— Can compare with the bright-eyed Eulalie's most humble and careless curl.

To–– (1829): Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories.

I heed not that my earthly lot

Hath-little of Earth in it—

That years of love have been forgot

In the hatred of a minute:—

"Bon-Bon" is a comedic short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in December 1832 in the Philadelphia Saturday Courier. Originally called "The Bargain Lost", it follows Pierre Bon-Bon, who believes himself a profound philosopher, and his encounter with the Devil. The story's humor is based on the verbal interchange between the two, which satirizes classical philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle. The Devil reveals that he has eaten the souls of many of these philosophers.

The Baron Ritzner Von Jung was of a noble Hungarian family, every member of which (at least as far back into antiquity as any certain records extend) was more or less remarkable for talent of some description — the majority for that species of grotesquerie in conception of which Tieck, a scion of the house, has given some vivid, although by no means the most vivid exemplifications. My acquaintance with Ritzner commenced at the magnificent Chateau Jung, into which a train of droll adventures, not to be made public, threw me during the summer months of the year 18—.

It should not be doubted that at least one-third of the affection with which we regard the elder poets of Great Britain should be-attributed to what is, in itself, a thing apart from poetry-we mean to the simple love of the antique-and that, again, a third of even the proper poetic sentiment inspiredby their writings should be ascribed to a fact which, while it has strict connection with poetry in the abstract, and with the old British poems themselves, should not be looked upon as a merit appertaining to the authors of the poems.

To Helen II: Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories. Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore, That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore.

Tamerlane: Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories. Kind solace in a dying hour! Such, father, is not (now) my theme— I will not madly deem that power Of Earth may shrive me of the sin Unearthly pride hath revell'd in— I have no time to dote or dream: You call it hope—that fire of fire!

To My Mother: Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories. Because I feel that, in the Heavens above, The angels, whispering to one another, Can find, among their burning terms of love, None so devotional as that of "Mother," Therefore by that dear name I long have called you—

A Dream: Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories. In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed— But a waking dream of life and light Hath left me broken-hearted.