Allan Poe

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    “like a ghastly rapid river,
    Through the pale door
    A hideous throng rush out forever,
    And laugh—but smile no more.”
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

    “Lo! Death has reared himself a throne
    In a strange city lying alone
    Far down within the dim West,
    Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best
    Have gone to their eternal rest.”
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

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