Allan Poe House

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    And so all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
    Of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride
    In her sepulchre there by the sea—
    In her tomb by the side of the sea.
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

    Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)

    Yes, Heaven is thine; but this
    Is a world of sweets and sours;
    Our flowers are merely—flowers,
    And the shadow of thy perfect bliss
    Is the sunshine of ours.
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

    At this season I seldom had a visitor. When the snow lay deepest no wanderer ventured near my house for a week or fortnight at a time, but there I lived as snug as a meadow mouse.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)