← Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

Edgar A. Poe. 1811-1849

Edmund H. Sears. 1810-1876.

Calm on the listening ear of night

Come Heaven's melodious strains,

Where wild Judea stretches far

Her silver-mantled plains.

Christmas Song.

It came upon the midnight clear,

That glorious song of old.

The Angels' Song.

Martin F. Tupper. 1810-1889.

A babe in a house is a well-spring of pleasure.

Of Education.

God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love.

Of Immortality.

Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door,—

Perched, and sat, and nothing more.

The Raven.

Whom unmerciful disaster

Followed fast and followed faster.

The Raven.

Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!

Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."

The Raven.

And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor

Shall be lifted—Nevermore!

The Raven.

To the glory that was Greece
And the grandeur that was Rome.

To Helen.