Quotation by Edgar Allan Poe

While the angels, all pallid and wan,
Uprising, unveiling, affirm
That the play is the tragedy "Man",
And its hero the Conqueror Worm.
Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), U.S. poet. Ligeia (l. 38–40). . .

Complete Poems and Selected Essays [Edgar Allan Poe]. Richard Gray, ed. (1993) Everyman.
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