“ It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of ANNABEL LEE; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me. I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea; But we loved with a love that was more than love I and my Annabel Lee; With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me. And this was the reason that, long ago, In this kingdom by the sea, A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling My beautiful Annabel Lee; So that her highborn kinsman came And bore her away from me, To shut her up in a sepulchre In this kingdom by the sea. The angels, not half so happy in heaven, Went envying her and me Yes! that was the reason (as all men know, In this kingdom by the sea) That the wind came out of the cloud by night, Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee. But our love it was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we Of many far wiser than we And neither the angels in heaven above, Nor the demons down under the sea, Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful Annabel Lee. For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And so, all the nighttide, I lie down by the side Of my darling my darling my life and my bride, In the sepulchre there by the sea, In her tomb by the sounding sea. ”
- Edgar Allen Poe- Copy
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“ To Helen I saw thee onceonce onlyyears ago; I must not say how manybut not many. It was a july midnight; and from out A fullorbed moon, that, like thine own soul, soaring, Sought a precipitate pathway up through heaven, There fell a silverysilken veil of light, With quietude, and sultriness, and slumber Upon the upturn'd faces of a thousand Roses that grew in an enchanted garden, Where no wind dared to stir, unless on tiptoe Fell on the upturn'd faces of these roses That gave out, in return for the lovelight Thier odorous souls in an ecstatic death Fell on the upturn'd faces of these roses That smiled and died in this parterre, enchanted by thee, by the poetry of thy prescence. Clad all in white, upon a violet bank I saw thee half reclining; while the moon Fell on the upturn'd faces of the roses And on thine own, upturn'dalas, in sorrow! Was it not Fate that, on this july midnight Was it not Fate (whose name is also sorrow) That bade me pause before that gardengate, To breathe the incense of those slumbering roses? No footstep stirred; the hated world all slept, Save only thee and me. (Oh Heaven oh, God! How my heart beats in coupling those two worlds!) Save only thee and me. I paused I looked And in an instant all things disappeared. (Ah, bear in mind this garden was enchanted!) The pearly lustre of the moon went out; The mossy banks and the meandering paths, The happy flowers and the repining trees, Were seen no more: the very roses' odors Died in the arms of the adoring airs. All all expired save thee save less than thou: Save only the divine light in thine eyes Save but the soul in thine uplifted eyes. I saw but them they were the world to me. I saw but them saw only them for hours Saw only them until the moon went down. What wild hearthistories seemed to lie enwritten Upon those crystalline, celestial spheres! How dark a woe! yet how sublime a hope! How silently serene a sea of pride! How daring an ambition!yet how deep How fathomless a capacity for love! But now, at length, dear Dian sank from sight, Into western couch of thundercloud; And thou, a ghost, amid the entombing trees Didst glide away. Only thine eyes remained. They would not go they never yet have gone. Lighting my lonely pathway home that night, They have not left me (as my hopes have) since. They follow me they lead me through the years. They are my ministers yet I thier slave Thier office is to illumine and enkindle My duty, to be saved by thier bright light, And purified in thier electric fire, And sanctified in thier Elysian fire. They fill my soul with Beauty (which is Hope), And are far up in heaven the stars I kneel to In the sad, silent watches of my night; While even in the meridian glare of day I see them still two sweetly scintillant Venuses, unextinguished by the sun! ”
- Edgar Allen Poe- Copy
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“ A Dream Within A Dream Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream. I stand amid the roar Of a surftormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of the golden sand How few! yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep, While I weep while I weep! O God! can I not grasp Them with a tighter clasp? O God! can I not save One from the pitiless wave? Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream? ”
- Edgar Allen Poe- Copy
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“ Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die. ”
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“ Eldorado Gaily bedight, A gallant knight, In sunshine and in shadow, Had journeyed long, Singing a song, In search of Eldorado. But he grew old— This knight so bold— And o’er his heart a shadow— Fell as he found No spot of ground That looked like Eldorado. And, as his strength Failed him at length, He met a pilgrim shadow— ‘Shadow,’ said he, ‘Where can it be— This land of Eldorado?’ ‘Over the Mountains Of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow, Ride, boldly ride,’ The shade replied,— ‘If you seek for Eldorado! ”
- Edgar Allen Poe- Copy
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“ To Helen I saw thee onceonce onlyyears ago; I must not say how manybut not many. It was a july midnight; and from out A fullorbed moon, that, like thine own soul, soaring, Sought a precipitate pathway up through heaven, There fell a silverysilken veil of light, With quietude, and sultriness, and slumber Upon the upturn'd faces of a thousand Roses that grew in an enchanted garden, Where no wind dared to stir, unless on tiptoe Fell on the upturn'd faces of these roses That gave out, in return for the lovelight Thier odorous souls in an ecstatic death Fell on the upturn'd faces of these roses That smiled and died in this parterre, enchanted by thee, by the poetry of thy prescence. Clad all in white, upon a violet bank I saw thee half reclining; while the moon Fell on the upturn'd faces of the roses And on thine own, upturn'dalas, in sorrow! Was it not Fate that, on this july midnight Was it not Fate (whose name is also sorrow) That bade me pause before that gardengate, To breathe the incense of those slumbering roses? No footstep stirred; the hated world all slept, Save only thee and me. (Oh Heaven oh, God! How my heart beats in coupling those two worlds!) Save only thee and me. I paused I looked And in an instant all things disappeared. (Ah, bear in mind this garden was enchanted!) The pearly lustre of the moon went out; The mossy banks and the meandering paths, The happy flowers and the repining trees, Were seen no more: the very roses' odors Died in the arms of the adoring airs. All all expired save thee save less than thou: Save only the divine light in thine eyes Save but the soul in thine uplifted eyes. I saw but them they were the world to me. I saw but them saw only them for hours Saw only them until the moon went down. What wild hearthistories seemed to lie enwritten Upon those crystalline, celestial spheres! How dark a woe! yet how sublime a hope! How silently serene a sea of pride! How daring an ambition!yet how deep How fathomless a capacity for love! But now, at length, dear Dian sank from sight, Into western couch of thundercloud; And thou, a ghost, amid the entombing trees Didst glide away. Only thine eyes remained. They would not go they never yet have gone. Lighting my lonely pathway home that night, They have not left me (as my hopes have) since. They follow me they lead me through the years. They are my ministers yet I thier slave Thier office is to illumine and enkindle My duty, to be saved by thier bright light, And purified in thier electric fire, And sanctified in thier Elysian fire. They fill my soul with Beauty (which is Hope), And are far up in heaven the stars I kneel to In the sad, silent watches of my night; While even in the meridian glare of day I see them still two sweetly scintillant Venuses, unextinguished by the sun! ”
- Edgar Allen Poe- Copy
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“ Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die. ”
- Edgar Allen Poe- Copy
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“ A Dream Within A Dream Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream. I stand amid the roar Of a surftormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of the golden sand How few! yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep, While I weep while I weep! O God! can I not grasp Them with a tighter clasp? O God! can I not save One from the pitiless wave? Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream? ”
- Edgar Allen Poe- Copy
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“ The angels... singing unto one another,Can find among their burning terms of love,None so devotional as that of "mother". ”
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“ It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma… which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve. ”
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“ The angels... singing unto one another,Can find among their burning terms of love,None so devotional as that of "mother". ”
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“ Some things are so completely ludicrous that a man must laugh or die. To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths! ”
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“ The ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic. ”
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“ Some things are so completely ludicrous that a man must laugh or die. To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths! ”
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“ It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma… which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve. ”
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“ The ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic. ”
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“ The ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic. ”
- Edgar Allen Poe- Copy
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“ Some things are so completely ludicrous that a man must laugh or die. To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths! ”
- Edgar Allen Poe- Copy
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“ Some things are so completely ludicrous that a man must laugh or die. To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths! ”
- Edgar Allen Poe- Copy
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“ It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma… which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve. ”
- Edgar Allen Poe- Copy
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