“Be silent in that solitude Which is not loneliness - for then The spirits of the dead who stood In life before thee are again In death around thee - and their will Shall then overshadow thee: be still.”
― The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe: A Complete Collection of Poems and Tales
― The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe: A Complete Collection of Poems and Tales
“And all my days are trances,
And all my nightly dreams
Are where thy dark eye glances,
And where thy footstep gleams--
In what ethereal dances,
By what eternal streams!”
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And all my nightly dreams
Are where thy dark eye glances,
And where thy footstep gleams--
In what ethereal dances,
By what eternal streams!”
―
“Life was not a reversible commodity. Things passed away, never to return: species, hopes, years.”
― Sacrament
― Sacrament
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