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The speaker holds “within my hand grains of the golden sand” in a poem by this author in which he stands “amid the roar of a surf-tormented shore.” That poem by this author asks, “Can I not save One from the pitiless wave?” This poet envisions “desperate seas long wont to roam” in a poem that depicts a “weary, way-worn wanderer” who crosses a “perfumed sea.” In a poem depicting a “lurid sea,” this author wrote, “Death has reared himself a (*) throne / In a strange city lying alone.” This author of “A Dream Within a Dream” repeated the line “In a kingdom by the sea” (10[1])in a poem about a maiden. “The City in the Sea” is by this author, who envisioned (10[1])“Night’s Plutonian shore” in a poem that repeats the word “Nevermore.” For 10 points, name this poet who depicted the sea in poems such as “Annabel Lee” and “The Raven.” ■END■

ANSWER: Edgar Allan Poe
<Noah Sheidlower, American Literature>
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