Mrs.Cicero Posted August 5, 2019 Share Posted August 5, 2019 Thanks for posting those Owain Phyfe songs, Eric. That's my kind of music when I am not listening to Sabaton, lol. I'm happy to have a new-to-me musician to listen to! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted August 5, 2019 Administrators Share Posted August 5, 2019 Just now, Mrs.Cicero said: Thanks for posting those Owain Phyfe songs, Eric. That's my kind of music when I am not listening to Sabaton, lol. I'm happy to have a new-to-me musician to listen to! He has a lot of content out there. I’m glad you like it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
holyjohnson Posted August 5, 2019 Share Posted August 5, 2019 The Conqueror Worm BY EDGAR ALLAN POE Lo! ’t is a gala night Within the lonesome latter years! An angel throng, bewinged, bedight In veils, and drowned in tears, Sit in a theatre, to see A play of hopes and fears, While the orchestra breathes fitfully The music of the spheres. Mimes, in the form of God on high, Mutter and mumble low, And hither and thither fly— Mere puppets they, who come and go At bidding of vast formless things That shift the scenery to and fro, Flapping from out their Condor wings Invisible Wo! That motley drama—oh, be sure It shall not be forgot! With its Phantom chased for evermore By a crowd that seize it not, Through a circle that ever returneth in To the self-same spot, And much of Madness, and more of Sin, And Horror the soul of the plot. But see, amid the mimic rout, A crawling shape intrude! A blood-red thing that writhes from out The scenic solitude! It writhes!—it writhes!—with mortal pangs The mimes become its food, And seraphs sob at vermin fangs In human gore imbued. Out—out are the lights—out all! And, over each quivering form, The curtain, a funeral pall, Comes down with the rush of a storm, While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, “Man,” And its hero, the Conqueror Worm. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
holyjohnson Posted August 5, 2019 Share Posted August 5, 2019 A Dream Within a Dream BY EDGAR ALLAN POE Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow — You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream. I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of the golden sand — How few! yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep, While I weep — while I weep! O God! Can I not grasp Them with a tighter clasp? O God! can I not save One from the pitiless wave? Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs.Cicero Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 22 hours ago, holyjohnson said: The Conqueror Worm BY EDGAR ALLAN POE Lo! ’t is a gala night Within the lonesome latter years! An angel throng, bewinged, bedight In veils, and drowned in tears, Sit in a theatre, to see A play of hopes and fears, While the orchestra breathes fitfully The music of the spheres. Mimes, in the form of God on high, Mutter and mumble low, And hither and thither fly— Mere puppets they, who come and go At bidding of vast formless things That shift the scenery to and fro, Flapping from out their Condor wings Invisible Wo! That motley drama—oh, be sure It shall not be forgot! With its Phantom chased for evermore By a crowd that seize it not, Through a circle that ever returneth in To the self-same spot, And much of Madness, and more of Sin, And Horror the soul of the plot. But see, amid the mimic rout, A crawling shape intrude! A blood-red thing that writhes from out The scenic solitude! It writhes!—it writhes!—with mortal pangs The mimes become its food, And seraphs sob at vermin fangs In human gore imbued. Out—out are the lights—out all! And, over each quivering form, The curtain, a funeral pall, Comes down with the rush of a storm, While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, “Man,” And its hero, the Conqueror Worm. Dude was downing a lot of absinthe when he wrote that one. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted August 6, 2019 Administrators Share Posted August 6, 2019 4 minutes ago, Mrs.Cicero said: Dude was downing a lot of absinthe when he wrote that one. So he was absintheminded? 1 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tadbart Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 Great conversation in this thread! I love Poe's stories. Amontillado and The Gold Bug are personal favorites. A while back, I had dinner with a friend and for dessert we had a glass of Chateau d'Yquem Amontillado. Y'all can guess what our toast was. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted August 10, 2019 Administrators Share Posted August 10, 2019 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrB Posted August 10, 2019 Author Share Posted August 10, 2019 1 hour ago, Eric said: Cool...Thanks. Dave.. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul53 Posted August 10, 2019 Share Posted August 10, 2019 The Pit and the Pendulum isn't in attendance! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrB Posted August 10, 2019 Author Share Posted August 10, 2019 1 minute ago, Paul53 said: The Pit and the Pendulum isn't in attendance! Yes I noted that also.. Dave.. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul53 Posted August 11, 2019 Share Posted August 11, 2019 No Raven either. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tous Posted August 11, 2019 Share Posted August 11, 2019 3 hours ago, Paul53 said: The Pit and the Pendulum isn't in attendance! The protagonist in The Pit and the Pendulum didn't die. 58 minutes ago, Paul53 said: No Raven either. The love interest in The Raven is already dead when the raven arrives at the window. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silentpoet Posted August 11, 2019 Share Posted August 11, 2019 6 hours ago, Eric said: What number is knowing something about the Clintons? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted August 11, 2019 Share Posted August 11, 2019 31 minutes ago, Silentpoet said: What number is knowing something about the Clintons? I don't know the number but I would guess that it is preceded by dollar sign. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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