Tamerlane and Other Poems Quotes

“In visions of the dark night  I have dream'd of joy departed— But a waking dream of life and light  Hath left me broken-hearted. And”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Tamerlane & Other Poems: A Collection of Poems

“How often we forget all time, when lone Admiring Nature’s universal throne; Her woods—her wilds—her mountains—the intense Reply of HERS to OUR intelligence!”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Tamerlane & Other Poems: A Collection of Poems

“THE LAKE IN youth's spring it was my lot To haunt of the wide earth a spot The which I could not love the less; So lovely was the loneliness Of a wild lake, with black rock bound, And the tall pines that tower'd around. But when the night had thrown her pall Upon that spot—as upon all, And the wind would pass me by In its stilly melody, My infant spirit would awake To the terror of the lone lake. Yet that terror was not fright— But a tremulous delight, And a feeling undefined, Springing from a darken'd mind. Death was in that poison'd wave And in its gulf a fitting grave For him who thence could solace bring To his dark imagining; Whose wildering thought could even make An Eden of that dim lake.  ”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Tamerlane & Other Poems: A Collection of Poems