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Quotation by Edgar Allan Poe
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A Dream within a DreamA Dream within a Dream (1849)"American Nationality in Literature" Marginalia (1844-1849)Annabel LeeAnnabel Lee (written 1845)Related Subjects
epitaphs (8) virtue (6) paradise (4) God (4) lust (4) temptation (3) punishment (3) burial (3) guilt (3) hell (3)
Some sepulcher, remote, alone,
Against whose portal she hath thrown,
In childhood, many an idle stone—
Some tomb from out whose sounding door
She ne'er shall force an echo more,
Thrilling to think, poor child of sin!
It was the dead who groaned within.
Against whose portal she hath thrown,
In childhood, many an idle stone—
Some tomb from out whose sounding door
She ne'er shall force an echo more,
Thrilling to think, poor child of sin!
It was the dead who groaned within.
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), U.S. poet. The Sleeper (l. 54–60). . .
Complete Poems and Selected Essays [Edgar Allan Poe]. Richard Gray, ed. (1993) Everyman.
Complete Poems and Selected Essays [Edgar Allan Poe]. Richard Gray, ed. (1993) Everyman.
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