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Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.

Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.

Edgar Allan Poe
Pain, Heart, Hell
Edgar Allan Poe (1902). “The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Poems”

If I venture to displace ... the microscopical speck of dust... on the point of my finger,... I have done a deed which shakes the Moon in her path, which causes the Sun to be no longer the Sun, and which alters forever the destiny of multitudinous myriads of stars.

Edgar Allan Poe
Stars, Moon, Destiny
Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell (1853). “The works of the late Edgar Allan Poe”, p.142

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
Children, Sea, Heaven
"Annabel Lee" l. 7 (1849)

I am actuated by an ambition which I believe to be an honourable one — the ambition of serving the great cause of truth, while endeavouring to forward the literature of the country.

Edgar Allan Poe
Country, Believe, Ambition
Edgar Allan Poe (1966). “The letters of Edgar Allan Poe”, Gordian Pr Inc

Blood was its Avatar and its seal.

Edgar Allan Poe
Blood, Masque, Seals
Frederick S. Frank, Tony Magistrale, Edgar Allan Poe (1997). “The Poe Encyclopedia”, p.224, Greenwood Publishing Group

If in many of my productions terror has been the thesis, I maintain that terror is not of Germany, but of the soul.

Edgar Allan Poe
Soul, Germany, Originality
Edgar Allan Poe (1984). “Poetry and Tales”, p.129, Library of America

The history of all Magazines shows plainly that those which have attained celebrity were indebted for it to articles similar in natureto Berenice--although, I grant you, far superior in style and execution. I say similar in nature. You ask me in what does this nature consist? In the ludicrous heightened into the grotesque: the fearful coloured into the horrible: the witty exaggerated into the burlesque: the singular wrought out into the strange and mystical.

Edgar Allan Poe
Witty, Style, Execution
Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.3363, Delphi Classics

In spite of the air of fablethe public were still not at all disposed to receive it as fable. I thence concluded that the facts of my narrative would prove of such a nature as to carry with them sufficient evidence of their own authenticity.

Edgar Allan Poe
Reality, Air, Facts

By late accounts from Rotterdam, that city seems to be in a high state of philosophical excitement. Indeed, phenomena have there occurred of a nature so completely unexpected--so entirely novel--so utterly at variance with preconceived opinions--as to leave no doubt on my mind that long ere this all Europe is in an uproar, all physics in a ferment, all reason and astronomy together by the ears.

Edgar Allan Poe
Book, Philosophical, Europe
Edgar Allan Poe (2017). “The Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated Edition): Annabel Lee, Ligeia, The Sphinx, The Raven, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Tell-tale Heart, Berenice, Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Philosophy of Composition, The Poetic Principle, Eureka…”, p.305, e-artnow

It all depends on the robber's knowledge of the loser's knowledge of the robber. - Daupin

Edgar Allan Poe
Loser, Depends, Robbers

As for Republicanism, no analogy could be found for it upon the face of the earth—unless we except the case of the "prairie dogs," an exception which seems to demonstrate, if anything, that democracy is a very admirable form of government—for dogs.

Edgar Allan Poe
Dog, Government, Democracy
Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.593, University of Illinois Press

Ah, broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever! Let the bell toll!-a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river; And, Guy de Vere, hast thou no tear?-weep now or nevermore!

Edgar Allan Poe
Rivers, Broken, Guy
Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.1035, Xist Publishing

For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride, In the sepulchre there by the sea, In her tomb by the sounding sea.

Edgar Allan Poe
Beautiful, Death, Dream
Edgar Allan Poe (2012). “The Raven and Other Favorite Poems”, p.41, Courier Corporation

As an individual, I myself feel impelled to fancy ... a limitless succession of Universes.... Each exists, apart and independently, in the bosom of its proper and particular God.

Edgar Allan Poe
Fancy, Limitless, Individual
Edgar Allan Poe (2015). “Eureka”, p.68, Sheba Blake Publishing

Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells, From the bells, bells, bells.

Edgar Allan Poe
Silver Bells, Icy, Bells Ringing
"The Bells" l. 6 (1849)

We gave him a hearty welcome, for there was nearly half as much of the entertaining as of the contemptible about the man.

Edgar Allan Poe
Men, Half, Welcome
Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (2000). “Thirty-two Stories”, p.257, Hackett Publishing

Finally on Sunday morning, October 7, 1849, "He became quiet and seemed to rest for a short time. Then, gently, moving his head," he said, "Lord help my poor soul." As he had lived so he died-in great misery and tragedy.

Edgar Allan Poe
Life, Morning, Moving

And I fell violently on my face.

Edgar Allan Poe
Faces
Edgar Allan Poe (2012). “Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe”, p.200, Doubleday

We allude to the short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour to one or two hours in its perusal

Edgar Allan Poe
Two, Half, Narrative
Edgar Allan Poe (2012). “Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poetry and Tales”, p.612, Broadview Press

That the play is the tragedy, “Man,” And its hero, the Conqueror Worm.

Edgar Allan Poe
Hero, Men, Play
Edgar Allan Poe (2014). “Classics Reimagined, Edgar Allan Poe”, p.194, Race Point Publishing

Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us- by that God we both adore- Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore- Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore." Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore.

Edgar Allan Poe
Angel, Names, Ravens
Edgar Allan Poe (2015). “A Classic Crime Collection”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

If I could dwell where Israfel hath dwelt and he where I he might not sing so wildly well a mortal melody while a bolder note then this might swell from my lyre in the sky.

Edgar Allan Poe
Sky, Might, Notes
Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works”, p.79, Lulu.com

If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment.

Edgar Allan Poe
Men, Effort, Ambitious
Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1857). “The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe”, p.508

Not hear it? --yes, I hear it, and have heard it. Long --long --long --many minutes, many hours, many days, have I heard it --yet I dared not --oh, pity me, miserable wretch that I am! --I dared not --I dared not speak! We have put her living in the tomb!

Edgar Allan Poe
Long, Speak, Miserable
Edgar Allan Poe (2010). “Mystery Tales”, p.33, Giunti Editore

There was a discordant hum of human voices! There was a loud blast as of many trumpets! There was a harsh grating as of a thousand thunders! The fiery walls rushed back! An outstretched arm caught my own as I fell, fainting, into the abyss. It was that of General Lasalle. The French army had entered Toledo. The Inquisition was in the hands of its enemies.

Edgar Allan Poe
Wall, Army, Hands
Edgar Allan Poe (2012). “Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poetry and Tales”, p.339, Broadview Press

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