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- In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed- But a waking dream of life and light Hath left me broken-hearted. Ah!…
- To Helen Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore…
- Odors have an altogether peculiar force, in affecting us through association; a force differing essentially from that of objects addressing the touch, the taste, the…
- Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore - Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore! Quoth the…
- All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
- From a proud tower in the town, Death looks gigantically down.
- The data from the 1990 Harvard Medical Practice Study suggest that 150,000 Americans die every year from doctors' negligence - compared with 38,000 gun deaths…
- Were the succession of stars endless, then the background of the sky would present us an uniform luminosity, like that displayed by the Galaxy-since there…
- Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air…
- Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden bells! What a world of happiness their harmony foretells Through the balmy air of night How they ring out…
- The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
- In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.
- Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
- That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the…
- No murmur arose from its bed, and so gently it wandered along, that the pearly pebbles upon which we loved to gaze, far down within…
- I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that…
- From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy…
- Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer Swung by Seraphim whose footfalls tinkled on the tufted floor. "Wretch," I cried, "thy…
- Every moment of the night Forever changing places And they put out the star-light With the breath from their pale faces
- Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is…
- By a route obscure and lonely Haunted by ill angels only, Where an eidolon, named NIGHT, On a black throne reigns upright, I have reached…
- I am SHADOW, and my dwelling is near to the Catacombs of Ptolemais, and hard by those dim plains of Helusion which border upon the…
- The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my…
- And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted -- Nevermore!
- But our love was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we Of many far wiser than we And neither…
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