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Love2 quotes
We loved with a love that was more than love. — Edgar Allan Poe · 1849I 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 · 1849Appearance vs. reality1 quote
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream. — Edgar Allan Poe · 1849Autumn1 quote
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 · 1847Being in love1 quote
We loved with a love that was more than love. — Edgar Allan Poe · 1849Dreams1 quote
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream. — Edgar Allan Poe · 1849Feeling different1 quote
From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were; I have not seen
As others saw. — Edgar Allan Poe · 1849Guests and visitors1 quote
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 · 1845Life and death1 quote
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 · 1844October1 quote
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 · 1847Seasons1 quote
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 · 1847The best is over1 quote
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 · 1827Torment1 quote
Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form
from off my door!
Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore." — Edgar Allan Poe · 1845True love1 quote
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 · 1849Unexpected visitors1 quote
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 · 1845Young love1 quote
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 · 1849