Thou seemest then to be
A gentle guarding spirit given
To guide my wandering thoughts to heaven
If they should stray from thee.
In Ulalume there is a possible echo of fragment (E. 16):
In terror she spoke, letting sink her
Wings till they trailed in the dust,
In agony sobbed, letting sink her
Plumes till they trailed in the dust.
In Al Aaraaf, I, 43 ff., Poe says in a note that he is referring to Sappho in the lines: