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At midnight, in the month of June, I stand beneath the mystic moon.

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I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief.

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To HelenI saw thee once-once only-years ago;I must not say how many-but not many.It was a july midnight; and from outA full-orbed moon, that, like thi...more

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How had I deserved to be so blessed by such confessions? —how had I deserved to be so cursed with the removal of my beloved in the hour of her making ...more

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I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth. I heard many things in hell. How, then, am I mad?

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Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.

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I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

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I have been happy, though in a dream.I have been happy-and I love the theme:Dreams! in their vivid colouring of lifeAs in that fleeting, shadowy, mist...more

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I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea,But we loved with a love that was more than love— I and my Annabel Lee—

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Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– wh...more

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From the dim regions beyond the mountains at the upper end of our encircled domain, there crept out a narrow and deep river, brighter than all save th...more

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A feeling, for which I have no name, has taken possession of my soul.

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The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more tha...more

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Yet mad I am not...and very surely do I not dream.

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Twas noontide of summer,And mid-time of night;And stars, in their orbits,Shone pale, thro' the lightOf the brighter, cold moon,'Mid planets her slaves...more