Tamerlane Quotes

“We grew in age - and love - together
Roaming the forest, and the wild;
My breast her shield in wintry weather -
And, when the friendly sunshine smil'd,
And she would mark the opening skies,
I saw no Heaven - but in her eyes.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Poetry

“For passion must, with youth, expire.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Stories and Poems

“To him, who still would gaze upon the glory of the summer sun, there comes, when that sun will from him part, a sullen hopelessness of heart.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“I have no words–alas!–to tell
The loveliness of loving well!”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

“The legend is a fiction, but it illustrates the character of Alexander. Such legends are not related of Genghis Khan, or of Tamerlane by the people whom they conquered.”
― William Winwood Reade, The Martyrdom of Man