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Strange, above all, thy length of tress, And this all-solemn silentness!

From Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works by Poe, Edgar Allan

Strange, above all, thy length of tress, And this all solemn silentness!

From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 5 by Poe, Edgar Allan

Beneath me the clouds in their silentness go, The cataract through them in thunder down-dashing, Far beneath them bare peaks in the sunny ray flashing, Weak moss and dry shrubs I can mark yet below.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 by Various

His co-voyageur was without curiosity; the former pallidness and silentness resumed their dominion over him, and the lesser gentleman settled moodily back to his newspaper.

From Bohemian Days Three American Tales by Townsend, George Alfred

Strange is thy pallor: strange thy dress: Strange, above all, thy length of tress, 35 And this all solemn silentness!

From Selections from Poe by Gambrill, J. Montgomery