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Edgar Allan Poe Quotes and Quotations
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so. Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so. Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so. In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it. Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed. 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. The glory that was Greece. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, they classic face, Thy naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore. With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. Of puns it has been said that those most dislike who are least able to utter them. The grandeur that was Rome. Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so. |