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

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

"Convinced myself, I seek not to convince."

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

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

"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…"

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

"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…"

"This—all this—was in the olden Time long ago."