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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!…
- The Merchant, to Secure His Treasure The merchant, to secure his treasure, Conveys it in a borrowed name: Euphelia serves to grace my measure, But…
- Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door,- Perched, and sat, and nothing more.
- I must perish in this deplorable folly. Thus, thus, and not otherwise, shall I be lost. I dread the events of the future, not in…
- A fearful instance of the ill consequences attending upon irascibility - alive, with the qualifications of the dead - dead, with the propensities of the…
- I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active…
- Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
- It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a…
- 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…
- ...A change fell upon all things. Strange brilliant flowers, star-shaped, burst out upon the trees where no flowers had been before. The tints of the…
- The rain came down upon my head - Unshelter'd. And the wind rendered me mad and deaf and blind.
- Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.
- I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
- 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 thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge. You, who so well…
- Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses…
- There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him who, shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a Plunge.
- The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found.
- As for Republicanism, no analogy could be found for it upon the face of the earth—unless we except the case of the "prairie dogs," an…
- In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the…
- I seemed to be upon the verge of comprehension, without the power to comprehend as men, at time, find themselves upon the brink of rememberance,…
- Yes I now feel that it was then on that evening of sweet dreams- that the very first dawn of human love burst upon the…
- Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore--While I nodded, nearly napping,…
- And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
- But evil things, in robes of sorrow, Assailed the monarch's high estate; (Ah, let us mourn, for never morrow Shall dawn upon him desolate!) And…
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