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Elizabeth, it surely is most fit (Logic and common usage so command… In thy own book that first thy nam… Zeno and other sages notwithstandi… And I have other reasons for so d…
In the consideration of the faculties and impulses—of the prima mobilia of the human soul, the phrenologists have failed to make room for a propensity which, although obviously existing...
I AM come of a race noted for vigor of fancy and ardor of passion. Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence —w...
To the few who love me and whom I love—to those who feel rather than to those who think—to the dreamers and those who put faith in dreams as in the only realities—I offer this Book of T...
I have sent for thee, holy friar;… But ’twas not with the drunken hop… Which is but agony of desire To shun the fate, with which to co… Is more than crime may dare to dre…
In spring of youth it was my lot To haunt of the wide world a spot The which I could not love the le… So lovely was the loneliness Of a wild lake, with black rock bo…
Lo! 'tis a gala night Within the lonesome latter years! An angel throng, bewinged, bedight In veils, and drowned in tears, Sit in a theatre, to see
From childhood’s hour I have not… As others were; I have not seen As others saw; I could not bring My passions from a common spring. From the same source I have not t…
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 these lands but new…
O! nothing earthly save the ray (Thrown back from flowers) of Bea… As in those gardens where the day Springs from the gems of Circassy… O! nothing earthly save the thrill
Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow— You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a dream;
A wilder’d being from my birth My spirit spurn’d control, But now, abroad on the wide earth, Where wand’rest thou my soul? In visions of the dark night
At Paris, just after dark one gusty evening in the autumn of 18—, I was enjoying the twofold luxury of meditation and a meerschaum, in company with my friend C. Auguste Dupin, in his li...
I Cannot, for my soul, remember how, when, or even precisely where, I first became acquainted with the lady Ligeia. Long years have since elapsed, and my memory is feeble through much s...
Thy soul shall find itself alone— Alone of all on earth—unknown The cause—but none are near to pry Into thine hour of secrecy. Be silent in that solitude,