Edgar Allan Poe

was born on this date in 1809.

Once upon a midnight dreary,
As I pondered weak and weary,
Over many quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
As I nodded, nearly napping,
Suddenly there came a tapping As of some one gently rapping,
rapping at my chamber door.
“‘Tis some visitor,” I muttered,”
“tapping at my chamber door,
Only this and nothing more.”

The Raven,”
Edgar Allan Poe

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