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Person·Edgar Allan Poe✕clear

Poem · Journal

The skies they were ashen and sober; The leaves they were crisped and sere, The leaves they were withering and sere; It was night in the lonesome October Of my most immemorial year.

Edgar Allan Poe

American Whig Review · 1847

★ 1.9

Poem · Newspaper

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Edgar Allan Poe

The Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper · 1844

★ 2.0

Poem

The happiest day, the happiest hour My seared and blighted heart hath known, The highest hope of pride and power, I feel hath flown.

Edgar Allan Poe

Tamerlane and Other Poems · 1827

★ 3.7

Poem · Newspaper

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.

Edgar Allan Poe

New-York Daily Tribune · 1849

★ 3.7

Poem · Magazine

From childhood's hour I have not been As others were; I have not seen As others saw.

Edgar Allan Poe

Scribner's Monthly · 1849

★ 3.7

Poem · Newspaper

We loved with a love that was more than love.

Edgar Allan Poe

New-York Daily Tribune · 1849

★ 3.8

Poem · Newspaper

Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door! Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."

Edgar Allan Poe

New York Evening Mirror · 1845

★ 3.9

Poem · Newspaper

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, rapping at my chamber door.

Edgar Allan Poe

New York Evening Mirror · 1845

★ 6.9

Poem · Newspaper

All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream.

Edgar Allan Poe

1849

★ 7.2

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