Quotes by Poe

7 quotations from The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1896), with the subject each one is filed under.

Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden bells! What a world of happiness their harmony foretells Through the balmy air of night How they ring out their delight! From the molten golden notes, And all in tune What a liquid ditty floats To the turtle-dove that listens while she gloats On the moon!— filed under Bells

Raven. And the Raven, never flitting, Still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas Just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming Of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamplight o'er him streaming Throws his shadow on the floor, And my soul from out that shadow, That lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted-nevermore.— filed under Birds-Raven

Come! let the burial rite be read- The funeral song be sung!- An anthem for the queenliest dead That ever died so young- A dirge for her, the doubly dead In that she died so young.— filed under Death

Out-out are the lights-out all! And, over each quivering form, The curtain, a funeral pall, Comes down with the rush of a storm, And the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man," And its hero the Conqueror Worm.— filed under Death

That holy dream-that holy dream, While all the world were chiding, Hath cheered me as a lovely beam A lonely spirit guiding.— filed under Dreams

Ghastly, grim, and ancient Raven, wandering from the Nightly shore,一 Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore! Quoth the Raven "Nevermore!"— filed under Night

The murmur that springs From the growing of grass.— filed under Sound

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