"By the grey woods, by the swamp, where……" — Edgar Allan Poe
"By the grey woods, by the swamp, where the toad and newt encamp, by the dismal tarns and pools, where dwell the Gouls. By each spot the most unholy, by each nook most melancholy, there the traveller meets, aghast, sheeted memories of the Past. Shrouded forms that start and sigh, as they pass the wanderer by. White-robed forms of friends long given; In agony, to the Earth - and Heaven."
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323 Quotes by Edgar Allan Poe
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Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.
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