It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of ANNABEL LEE;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.

I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea;
But we loved with a love that was more than love-
I and my Annabel Lee;
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
Coveted her and me.

And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her highborn kinsman came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea.

The angels, not half so happy in heaven,
Went envying her and me-
Yes!- that was the reason (as all men know,
In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.

But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we-
Of many far wiser than we-
And neither the angels in heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.

For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride,
In the sepulchre there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea.


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Lenore — For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore — Nameless
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And the raven quote, nevermore.
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Actually, I do have doubts, all the time. Any thinking person does. There are so many sides to every...
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Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!” I shrieked, upstarting—
“Get thee back ...
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Darkness there, and nothing more.
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Tell me truly, I implore-- Is there-- is there balm in Gilead?--tell me--tell me, I implore!
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Other friends have flown before — On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.�...
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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming drea...
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Here I opened wide the door;— Darkness there, and nothing more.
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Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer
Swung by Seraphim whose fo...
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Leave my loneliness unbroken
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Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore...
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Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore.
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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
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The Tell Tale Poe
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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.
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years of love have been forgot, in the hatred of a minute.
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We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, th...
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There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible,...
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I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect...
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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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Lord help my poor soul.
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If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thou...
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That I scarce was sure I heard you- here I opened wide the door;- Darkness there, and nothing more.
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I am ugly.
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The angels, whispering to one another Can find, among their burning terms of love, None so devotiona...
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On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before. Then the bird said "Nevermore.
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[Soon] Gothic ... hidden vices and perversions behind the veneer of virtue.
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To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness
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A valet, of stealthy step, thence conducted me, in silence, through many dark and intricate passages...
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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portio...
EDGAR ALLAN POE
I was never really insane, except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
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That is another of your odd notions," said the Prefect, who had a fashion of calling every thing "od...
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The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at onc...
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True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The...
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Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
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Invisible things are the only realities.
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A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
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The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficien...
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When I wanted to forget, it killed me to remember and when I wanted to remember, I had the good fort...
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Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them
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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty
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All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,/ Over many a quaint and curious volum...
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A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms.
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Thank Heaven! The crisis /The danger is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last /, and the ...
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A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this / that offences against Charity are about the o...
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...And, all at once, the moon arouse through the thin ghastly mist, And was crimson in color... And ...
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A Dream Within A Dream

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you...
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Villains!' I shrieked. 'Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is t...
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In criticism, I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose...
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Fill with mingled cream and amber,
I will drain that glass again.
Such hilarious visions ...
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A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offenses against Charity are about the o...
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From childhood's hour I have not beenAs others were--I have not seenAs others saw.
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Edgar Allan Poe and Bram Stoker: A Meeting of the Macabre.
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The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth ma...
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...And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor shall be lifted--nevermore!
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There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad humanity must assume t...
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I was never really insane, except on occasions where my heart was touched.
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Yes, I now feel that it was then on that evening of sweet dreams- that the very first dawn of human ...
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Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impul...
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As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles i...
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In [chess], where the pieces have different and "bizarre" motions, with various and variable values,...
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Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expectiing that it soon will be so.
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The plots of God are perfect. The Universe is a plot of God.
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Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling-blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have b...
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All I lov'd I lov'd alone.
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The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the uno...
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I have great faith in fools - my friends call it self-confidence
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There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry
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But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. Either the...
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Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You sho...
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تنفلت المواد من إدراك حواس الإنسان تدريجياً. لدينا مثل�...
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The principle of vis inertiae (...) seems to be identical in physics and metaphysics. It is not more...
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Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
Yo...
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