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the raven really is one of the greatest poems of all time

and all my days are trances
and all my nightly dreams
are where thy dark eye glances,
and where thy footsteps gleams —
in what ethereal dances,
by what eternal streams.

The sweet Lenore hath "gone before," with Hope, that flew beside
Leaving thee wild for the dear child that should have been thy bride —
For her, the fair and debonair, that now so lowly lies,
The life upon her yellow hair but not within her eyes —
The life still there, upon her hair — the death upon her eyes.

Ah! what is not a dream by day
To him whose eyes are cast
On things around him with a ray
Turned back upon the past?

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand —
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep — while I weep!
O God! Can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?

tortured POEts department

“But my heart it is brighter
Than all of the many
Stars of the sky
For it sparkles with Annie
It glows with the light
Of the love of my Annie”

sobbing ! how cute and loving !

“Save only the divine light in thine eyes—Save but the soul in thine uplifted eyes. I saw but them—they were the world to me. I saw but them—saw only them for hours—Saw only them until the moon went down.”

😭😭

“Ah, less—less bright
The stars of the night
Than the eyes of the radiant girl!”

men don’t write about women like this anymore

“While the orchestra breathes fitfully
The music of the spheres.”

Shoutout to one of my fave Coldplay albums ! 🪐🌎✨

“And all with pearl and ruby glowing
Was the fair palace-door,
Through which came flowing, flowing, flowing,
And sparkling evermore,”