"O God! Can I not save One from the pitiless wave? Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream?"

"During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low …"

"Convinced myself, I seek not to convince."

"And as, in ethics, Evil is a consequence of Good, so, in fact, out of Joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past b…"

"And all my days are trances, And all my nightly dreams Are where thy grey eye glances, And where thy footstep gleams …"

"There is then no analogy whatever between the operations of the Chess-Player, and those of the calculating machine of…"

"Vastness! and Age! and Memories of Eld! Silence! and Desolation! and dim Night! I feel ye now — I feel ye in your str…"

"Thou wast that all to me, love, For which my soul did pine — A green isle in the sea, love, A fountain and a shrine, …"

"Come! let the burial rite be read — the funeral song be sung! — An anthem for the queenliest dead that ever died so y…"

"In the greenest of our valleys By good angels tenanted, Once a fair and stately palace — Radiant palace — reared its …"