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" Lo! Death has reared himself a throne In a strange city lying alone Far down within the dim West, Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best Have gone to their eternal rest. There shrines and palaces and towers (Time-eaten towers that tremble... "
The tales and poems of Edgar Allan Poe, with biogr. essay by J.H. Ingram - Page 257
by Edgar Allan Poe - 1884
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The Poets and Poetry of America: To the Middle of the Nineteenth Century

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1852 - 588 pages
...and towers, (Time-eaten towers that tremble not !) Resemble nothing that is ours. Around, by lilting winds forgot, Resignedly beneath the sky The melancholy...turrets silently — Gleams up the pinnacles far and freeUp domes — up spires — up kingly halls — Up fanes — up Babylon-like walls — Up shadowy,...
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The poetical works of Edgar Allan Poe with a notice by J. Hannay

Edgar Allan Poe - 1853 - 188 pages
...eternal rest. There shrines, and palaces, and towers (Time-eaten towers that tremble not !) Besemble nothing that is ours. Around, by lifting winds forgot,...Resignedly beneath the sky The melancholy waters lie. n. No rays from the holy heaven come down On the long night-time of that town But light from out the...
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The Poets and Poetry of America

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1855 - 690 pages
...eternal rest. There shrines, and palaces, and towers, (Time-eaten towers that tremble not !) Kesemble erer blue, Thin that which bends above the eastern hill». walers lie. No rays from the holy heaven come down On the long night-time nf that town ; But light...
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The Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe: With Original Memoir

Edgar Allan Poe - American poetry - 1858 - 388 pages
...eternal rest. There shrines and palaees and towers (Time-eaten towers that tremble not !) Resemhle nothing that is ours. Around, by lifting winds forgot, Resignedly beneath the sky The melaneholy waters lie. No rays from the holy heaven eome down < )n the long night-time of that town...
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The Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe - American poetry - 1865 - 220 pages
...worst and the best, Have gone to their eternal rest. There shrines and palaces and towers (Time-eaten towers that tremble not !) Resemble nothing that is...Resignedly beneath the sky The melancholy waters lie. n. No rays from the holy heaven come down On the long night-time of that town, But light from out the...
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The poetical works of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. by J. Hannay. Complete ed

Edgar Allan Poe - 1865 - 238 pages
...worst and the best, Have gone to their eternal rest. There shrines and palaces and towers (Time-eaten towers that tremble not!) Resemble nothing that is...Resignedly beneath the sky The melancholy waters lie. II. No rays from the holy heaven come down On the long night-time of that town, But light from out...
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The complete poetical works of Edgar Allan Poe, with a selection of his ...

Edgar Allan Poe - 1866 - 332 pages
...eternal rest. There shrines and palaces and towers (Time-eaten towers that tremble not !) Kesemble nothing that is ours. Around, by lifting winds forgot,...Resignedly beneath the sky The melancholy waters lie. JSTo rays from the holy heaven come down On the long night-time of that town ; But light from out the...
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Scribners Monthly, Volume 20

Literature - 1880 - 996 pages
...throne. Its " shrines and palaces and towers (Time-eaten towers that tremble not!) Resemble nothing thai is ours. Around, by lifting winds forgot, Resignedly beneath the sky The melancholy waters lie." This mystical town is aglow with light, not from heaven, but from out the lurid sea, — light which...
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Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe - American poetry - 1869 - 298 pages
...worst and the best Have gone to their eternal rest. Their shrines and palaces and towers (Time-eaten towers that tremble not !) Resemble nothing that is...and free — Up domes — up spires — up kingly ballsUp fanes — up Babylon-like walls — Up shadowy long-forgotten bowers Of sculptured ivy and...
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Poems, complete, with an orig. mem. by R.H. Stoddard, Issue 734

Edgar Allan Poe - 1875 - 400 pages
...O ! no — ours never loom To heaven with that ungodly gloom ! Time-eaten towers that tremble not ! Around, by lifting winds forgot, Resignedly beneath the sky The melancholy waters lie. A heaven that God doth not contemn With stars is like a diadem — We liken our ladies' eyes to them...
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