Roderick Usher, the Paintings of...

Edgar Allan Poe writes:  I shall ever bear about me a memory of the many solemn hours I thus spent alone with the master of the House of Usher.  Yet I should fail in any attempt to convey an idea of the exact character of the studies, or of the occupations in which he involved me or led me the way. ...

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Not long ago, the writer of these lines, In the mad pride of intellectuality, Maintained “the power of words” — denied that ever A thought arose within the human brain Beyond the utterance of the human tongue : And now, as if in mockery of that boast, Two words — two foreign soft...

Edgar Allan Poe, A Dream Within A Dream...

TAKE this kiss upon the brow ! And, in parting from you now, This much let me avow – You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within...