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Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer
Swung by Seraphim whose footfalls tinkled on the tufted floor.
"Wretch," I cried, "thy God hath lent thee--by these angels he hath sent thee--
Respite--respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore!
Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!"
Quothe the Raven, "Nevermore.


Edgar Allan Poe

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Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!
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EDGAR ALLAN POE He hath never failed thee yet.
Never will His love forget.
O fret not thyself nor let
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JOSEPH SMITH JR. When We Two Parted

When we two parted
In silence and tears,
Half broken-...
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Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing;
Land where my father...
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And each separate dying ember wrough...
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In silence I grieve,
That thy heart could forget,
Thy spirit decei...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON And then may chance thee to repent
The time that thou hast lost and spent
To cause thy lov...
THOMAS WYATT Fair flower, that dost so comely grow,
Hid in this silent, dull retreat,
Untouched thy honied...
PHILIP FRENEAU Entreat me not to leave thee,

Or return from following after thee—

For whith...
CASSANDRA CLARE Hast thou ice that thou shalt bind it
To thy breast, and make thee dead
To thy children, t...
EURIPIDES He that is thy friend indeed,
He will help thee in thy need:
If thou sorrow, he will weep; WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He that is thy friend indeed,
He will help thee in thy need:
If thou sorrow, he will weep;...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Whom wilt thou find to love ignoble thee
Save Me, save only Me?
All which I took from the...
FRANCIS G. THOMPSON Remember thee! remember thee!
Till Lethe quench life's burning stream
Remorse and sham...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON Angels and ministers of grace defend us.
Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damned,
Bring w...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Then this immensive cup
Of aromatic wine,
Catullus, I quaff up
To that terse muse of thine.
ROBERT HERRICK Return, O wanderer, now return,
And seek thy Father’s face;
Those new desires which in t...
WILLIAM BENCO COLLYER Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph that liv'st unseen
Within thy airy shell
By slow Meander's marg...
JOHN MILTON Not so on Man; him through their malice fall'n,
Father of Mercy and Grace, thou didst not doom<...
JOHN MILTON But first on earth as vampire sent
Thy corpse shall from its tomb be rent
Then gastly haun...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON O my love, my wife!
Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath
Hath had no power yet ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The Author To Her Book


Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain,
Who after...
ANNE BRADSTREET O friend, my bosom said,
Through thee alone the sky is arched.
Through thee the rose is red; RALPH WALDO EMERSON And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, whi...
BIBLE Then if thou hast
A heart of wreak in thee, that wilt revenge
Thine own particular wrongs...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious v...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Stand like a beaten anvil, when thy dream
Is laid upon thee, golden from the fire.
Flinch ...
ALFRED NOYES Happy be Thy world
The world forgetting by the forgotten world;
The failed attempts to re...
RANJANI RAMACHANDRAN That I shall love always,
I argue thee
that love is life,
and life hath immortality
EMILY DICKINSON This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless,
Away from books, away from art, th...
WALT WHITMAN Son of Heav'n and Earth,
Attend: That thou art happy, owe to God,
That thou continu'st suc...
JOHN MILTON Quoth the Raven," said a glitching voice from the phone.

"Nevermore," said the man.
RAO UMAR JAVED Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom,
On thee shall press no ponderous tomb;
But on thy turf ...
LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON Nay, tempt me not to love again:
There was a time when love was sweet;
Dear Nea! had I known...
SIR THOMAS MORE In childhood's pride I said to Thee:
O Thou, who mad'st me of Thy breath,
Speak, Master, and r...
SAROJINI NAIDU Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough w...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE MARSYAS:
There are seven keys to the great gate,
Being eight in one and one in eigh...
ALEISTER CROWLEY How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My ...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Grant unto us, Lord, that we may set our hope on Thy name…and open the eyes of our hearts, that we...
CLEMENT OF ROME The End of the Raven

"On a night quite unenchanting, when the rain was downward sl...
HENRY N. BEARD There are three lessons I would write-
Three words, as with a burning pen,
In tracings of...
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince:
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night, sweet prince;
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest...
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Doubting, dreaming drea...
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"I saw a dog pursuing automobiles;
On and on he sped.
HENRY N. BEARD You lie, in faith; for you are call'd plain Kate,
And bonny Kate and sometimes Kate the curst;...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou ...
BIBLE Should God create another Eve, and I
Another Rib afford, yet loss of thee
Would never from...
JOHN MILTON Although life is hard in pace
Lose not thy calm and grace.
If thee are not tender
...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES O Lord I thank Thee for this wonderful body which by itself is a miracle.
Thank you for this wo...
LATIKA TEOTIA JAY: No really. Be secure. Pretend I'm a sperm cell. Here. I take the string out of the... hood of m...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE God, of thy goodness, give me Thyself;
for Thou art enough for me,
and I can ask for nothi...
JULIAN OF NORWICH When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes...
Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
L...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in,
Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. <...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If that the world and love were young,
And truth in every shepherd's tongue,
These pretty ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And shall I pray Thee change Thy will, my Father,
Until it be according unto mine?
But, no...
AMY CARMICHAEL Let me twine
Mine arms about that body, where against
My grained ash an hundred times hath...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I sleep with thee, and wake with thee,
And yet thou are not there;
I fill my arms with tho...
JOHN CLARE At the sixes and sevens of our mind
lead us oh Lord in Thy might
In the moment to decide o...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Love me, beloved; Hades and Death
Shall vanish away like a frosty breath;
These hands, tha...
GEORGE MACDONALD Oh! Pilot! 'tis a fearful night,
There's danger on the deep,
I'll come and pace the deck with ...
THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from t...
BIBLE To a Vase

"How do I break thee? Let me count the ways.
I break thee if thou a...
HENRY N. BEARD Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul,
But I do love thee! and when I love thee not,
Chao...
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Friendship like the holly-tree.
The holly is dark when t...
EMILY DICKINSON That dog is a wolf, is he not?'

'Aye, well, mostly.'

A small flash of hazel to...
DIANA GABALDON O full and splendid Moon, whom I
Have, from this desk, seen climb the sky
So many a midnig...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand: that the LORD may turn from the fie...
BIBLE If thou art called to pass through tribulation; if thou art in perils among false brethren; if thou ...
JOSEPH SMITH JR. I pray thee cease thy counsel,
Which falls into mine ears as profitless
as water in a sieve.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thy
eyes—and moreover, I will go w...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Grant that I may radiate Thy Light, Thy Love,
Thy Healing, Thy Joy, and Thy Peace
to all t...
JONATHAN LOCKWOOD HUIE If we have never sought, we seek Thee now;
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KAHLIL GIBRAN Death Be Not Proud

Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty ...
JOHN DONNE Through the forest have I gone.
But Athenian found I none,
On whose eyes I might approve WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE With thee conversing I forget all time,
All seasons and their change, all please alike.
Sw...
JOHN MILTON How clear she shines ! How quietly
I lie beneath her guardian light;
While heaven and ear...
EMILY BRONTë O rose, who dares to name thee?
No longer roseate now, nor soft, nor sweet,
But pale, and hard...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING O sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams
That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell, h...
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BIBLE God and religion before every thing!' Dante cried. 'God and religion before the world.'

...
JAMES JOYCE Beauty is but a flower,
Which wrinkles will devour;
Brightness falls from the air;
Queens h...
THOMAS NASH Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.
ROBERT FROST Butterfly Kisses

Aged imperfections
stitched upon my face
years and years of wi...
MUSE What infinite heart's-ease
Must kings neglect, that private men enjoy!
And what have kings...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Thou, my slave,
As thou report'st thyself, was then her servant,
And for thou wast a spiri...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
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Rough win...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Accuse not nature, she hath done her part;
Do thou but thine, and be not diffident
Of wisdom, ...
JOHN MILTON Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him;
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And these few precepts in thy memory
Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Verily, for nine hundred years have I lost. Everyone I knew is dead, the empire gone, and who knows ...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Only our love hath no decay;
This no tomorrow hath, nor yesterday,
Running it never runs...
JOHN DONNE I saw thee once - only once - years ago:
I must not say how many - but not many.
It was a ...
EDGAR ALLAN POE The minstrel fell but the foeman's chain
could not break his proud soul under.
The harp he lov...
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EDGAR ALLAN POE To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness
EDGAR ALLAN POE A valet, of stealthy step, thence conducted me, in silence, through many dark and intricate passages...
EDGAR ALLAN POE 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.
EDGAR ALLAN POE That is another of your odd notions," said the Prefect, who had a fashion of calling every thing "od...
EDGAR ALLAN POE The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at onc...
EDGAR ALLAN POE True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.
EDGAR ALLAN POE Invisible things are the only realities.
EDGAR ALLAN POE A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
EDGAR ALLAN POE The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficien...
EDGAR ALLAN POE When I wanted to forget, it killed me to remember and when I wanted to remember, I had the good fort...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them
EDGAR ALLAN POE I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty
EDGAR ALLAN POE All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream
EDGAR ALLAN POE Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,/ Over many a quaint and curious volum...
EDGAR ALLAN POE A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms.
EDGAR ALLAN POE Thank Heaven! The crisis /The danger is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last /, and the ...
EDGAR ALLAN POE A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this / that offences against Charity are about the o...
EDGAR ALLAN POE ...And, all at once, the moon arouse through the thin ghastly mist, And was crimson in color... And ...
EDGAR ALLAN POE A Dream Within A Dream

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