List of Songs Based On Poems - Edgar Allan Poe

Famous quotes by edgar allan poe:

“Hear the sledges with the bells—
Silver bells!”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

“There is not a more disgusting spectacle under the sun than our subserviency to British criticism. It is disgusting, first, because it is truckling, servile, pusillanimous—secondly, because of its gross irrationality. We know the British to bear us little but ill will—we know that, in no case do they utter unbiased opinions of American books ... we know all this, and yet, day after day, submit our necks to the degrading yoke of the crudest opinion that emanates from the fatherland.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)

“Helen, thy beauty is to me
Like those Nicean barks of yore,”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

“And we passed to the end of a vista,
But were stopped by the door of a tomb—
By the door of a legended tomb;
And I said—’ What is written, sweet sister,
On the door of this legended tomb?’
She replied—’Ulalume—Ulalume!—
‘Tis the vault of thy lost Ulalume!’”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

“Tell a scoundrel, three or four times a day, that he is the pink of probity, and you make him at least the perfection of ‘respectability’ in good earnest. On the other hand, accuse an honorable man, too petinaciously, of being a villain, and you fill him with a perverse ambition to show you that you are not altogether in the wrong.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)