Edgar Allan Poe Quotes About Darkness

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  • Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

    "The Raven" l. 25 (1845)
  • Sound-- That stealeth ever on the ear of him Who, musing, gazeth on the distance dim, And sees the darkness coming as a cloud-- Is not its form--its voice--most palpable and loud?

    Edgar Allan Poe (2015). “Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry and Tales”, p.45, Library of America
  • Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before; But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token, And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, "Lenore?" This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, "Lenore!" — Merely this, and nothing more

    "The Raven" l. 25 (1845)
  • And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night. And one by one dropped the revelers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall. And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

    Edgar Allan Poe (1927). “Tales by Edgar Allan Poe”, p.266, Dimitrios Spyridon Chytiris
  • And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

    Edgar Allan Poe (2004). “The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.251, Wordsworth Editions
  • And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

    Edgar Allan Poe (2004). “The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.251, Wordsworth Editions
  • And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you"— here I opened wide the door; — Darkness there, and nothing more.

    Edgar Allan Poe (2015). “A Classic Crime Collection”, p.168, Simon and Schuster
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