John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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Edgar Allan Poe. (1809–1849) (continued) |
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Vastness! and Age! and Memories of Eld! Silence! and Desolation! and dim Night! |
The Coliseum. |
6618 |
This—all this—was in the olden Time long ago. |
The haunted Palace. |
6619 |
Unthought-like thoughts that are the souls of thought, |
To ———. |
6620 |
This maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me. |
Annabel Lee. |
6621 |
Keeping time, time, time In a sort of Runic rhyme To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells. |
The Bells. |
6622 |
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 their delight! |
The Bells. |
6623 |
And all my days are trances And all my nightly dreams Are where thy dark eye glances And where thy footstep gleams— In what ethereal dances By what eternal streams. |
To One in Paradise. |
6624 |
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, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping. |
The Raven. |
6625 |
Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. |
The Raven. |