Edgar Allan Poe Quotes About Heaven

Quotes about: Heaven

• In the Heaven's above, the angels, whispering to one another, can find, among their burning terms of love, none so devotional as that of 'Mother.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Mothers Day, Angel, Heaven

  Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works”, p.20, Lulu.com

• Thank Heaven! The crisis /The danger is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last /, and the fever called ''Living'' is conquered at last.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Inspiring, Death, Past

  1850 'ForAnnie'.

• Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night, While the stars that oversprinkle All the Heavens seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight: Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells-- From the jingling and the tingling of the bells.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Stars, Night, Air

  "The Bells" l. 6 (1849)

• It would be mockery to call such dreariness heaven at all.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Heaven, Would Be, Mockery

  Edgar Allan Poe (2008). “Edgar Allan Poe's Annotated Poems”, p.188, Bottletree Books LLC

• By the grey woods, by the swamp, where the toad and newt encamp, by the dismal tarns and pools, where dwell the Gouls. By each spot the most unholy, by each nook most melancholy, there the traveller meets, aghast, sheeted memories of the Past. Shrouded forms that start and sigh, as they pass the wanderer by. White-robed forms of friends long given; In agony, to the Earth - and Heaven.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Memories, Past, Agony

  Edgar Allan Poe (1927). “The best known works of Edgar Allan Poe: poems, tales, essays, criticisms”

• But our love was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we Of many far wiser than we And neither the angels in heaven above, Nor the demons down under the sea, Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Beautiful, Angel, Sea

  Edgar Allan Poe (1912). “The Bells and Other Poems”, p.13, Library of Alexandria

• I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea; But we loved with a love that was more than love- I and my Annabel Lee; With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Children, Sea, Heaven

  "Annabel Lee" l. 7 (1849)

• Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us- by that God we both adore- Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore- Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore." Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Angel, Names, Ravens

  Edgar Allan Poe (2015). “A Classic Crime Collection”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

• During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was - but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Country, Book, Autumn

  Edgar Allan Poe (1927). “Tales by Edgar Allan Poe”, p.128, Dimitrios Spyridon Chytiris

• Yes, Heaven is thine; but this Is a world of sweets and sours; Our flowers are merely—flowers.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Sweet, Flower, Heaven

  1845 'Israfel', stanza 7.

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