Valley of Unrest}} Though first published as "The Valley Nis" in Poems by Edgar A. Poe in 1831, this poem evolved into the version "The Valley of Unrest" now anthologized. In its original version, the speaker asks if all things lovely are far away, and that the valley is part Satan, part angel, and a large part broken heart. It mentions a woman named "Helen", which may actually refer to Jane Stanard, one of Poe's first loves and the mother of a friend. The poem was renamed "The Valley of Unrest" for the April 1845 issue of the American Review. This version of the poem is shorter and quite different from its predecessor, and there is no mention of "Helen". Chronologically Ordered List of Edgar Allan Poe's Poems 1824 Poetry 1825? O, Tempora! O, Mores! 1827 A Dream 1827 Evening Star 1827 The Happiest Day 1827 Imitation 1827 The Lake 1827 Song 1827 Spirits of the Dead 1827 Stanzas 1827 Tamerlane 1827 To Margaret 1827 To Octavia 1828 To M—— 1828 To The River —— 1829 An Acrostic 1829 Al Aaraaf 1829 Alone 1829 Elizabeth 1829 Fairy-Land 1829 Romance 1829 Sonnet — To Science 1829 To —— 1829 To —— —— 1829 To Isaac Lea 1831 The City in the Sea 1831 Israfel 1831 A Pæan 1831 The Sleeper 1831 To Helen 1831 The Valley of Unrest 1833 The Coliseum 1833 Enigma 1833 Fanny 1833 Serenade 1833 To —— 1833 To One in Paradise 1835 Hymn 1836 Spiritual Song 1837 Bridal Ballad 1837 Sonnet — To Zante 1839 The Haunted Palace 1839 Silence 1843 The Conqueror Worm 1843 Eulalie 1843 Lenore 1844 Dream-Land 1845 The Divine Right of Kings 1845 Epigram for Wall Street 1845 Impromptu. To Kate Carol 1845 The Raven 1845 To F—— 1846 A Valentine 1847 Beloved Physician 1847 Deep in Earth 1847 To M. L. S—— 1847 To Marie Louise 1847 To Miss Louise Olivia Hunter 1847 Ulalume 1848 The Bells 1848 Eldorado 1848 An Enigma 1848 Evangeline 1848 Lines on Ale 1848 To Helen 1849 Annabel Lee 1849 A Dream Within A Dream 1849 For Annie 1849 To My Mother 1835/45 To F——s S. O——d ? Lines on Joe Locke See also Bibliography of Edgar Allan Poe Tamerlane and Other Poems References Further reading 19th-century poems Poe, Edgar Allan