In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed-- But a waking dream of life and light Hath left… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed- But a waking dream of life and light Hath left… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of earth is multiform. Overreaching the wide horizon as the rainbow, its hues are as various as… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
... -ev'n with us the breath Of Science dims the mirror of our joy... — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden bells! What a world of happiness their harmony foretells Through the balmy air of night How… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“In a night such as is this to me, a man lives-lives a whole century of life-nor would I forgo this rapturous… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“How is it that from beauty I have derived a type of unloveliness?—from the covenant of peace a simile of sorrow? But… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“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… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him who, shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“A skillful literary artist has constructed a tale. If wise, he has not fashioned his thoughts to accommodate his incidents; but having conceived, with… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“I have said that the sole effect of my somewhat childish experiment—that of looking down within the tarn—had been to deepen the first singular… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
And all my days are trances, And all my nightly dreams Are where thy dark eye glances, And where thy footstep gleams-- In what… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“Other friends have flown before — On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.” Quoth the raven, “Nevermore.” — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“To the right and left, as far as the eye could reach, there lay outstretched, like ramparts of the world, lines of horridly black… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors ... on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
