<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373679" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Haunted Palace</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the greenest of our valleys<br> By good angels tenanted,<br> Once a fair and stately palace-<br> Radiant palace- reared its head.<br> In the monarch Thought's dominion-<br> It stood there!<br> Never seraph spread a pinion<br> Over fabric half so fair!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Banners yellow, glorious, golden,<br> On its roof did float and flow,<br> (This- all this- was in the olden<br> Time long ago,)<br> And every gentle air that dallied,<br> In that sweet day,<br> Along the ramparts plumed and pallid,<br> A winged odor went away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Wanderers in that happy valley,<br> Through two luminous windows, saw<br> Spirits moving musically,<br> To a lute's well-tuned law,<br> Round about a throne where, sitting<br> (Porphyrogene!)<br> In state his glory well-befitting,<br> The ruler of the realm was seen.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> And all with pearl and ruby glowing<br> Was the fair palace door,<br> Through which came flowing, flowing, flowing,<br> And sparkling evermore,<br> A troop of Echoes, whose sweet duty<br> Was but to sing,<br> In voices of surpassing beauty,<br> The wit and wisdom of their king.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> But evil things, in robes of sorrow,<br> Assailed the monarch's high estate.<br> (Ah, let us mourn!- for never morrow<br> Shall dawn upon him desolate!)<br> And round about his home the glory<br> That blushed and bloomed,<br> Is but a dim-remembered story<br> Of the old time entombed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> And travellers, now, within that valley,<br> Through the red-litten windows see<br> Vast forms, that move fantastically<br> To a discordant melody,<br> While, like a ghastly rapid river,<br> Through the pale door<br> A hideous throng rush out forever<br> And laugh- but smile no more.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> -THE END-<br>.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edgar+Allan+Poe">Edgar Allan Poe</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373679" data-title="The Haunted Palace de Edgar Allan Poe" data-description="In the greenest of our valleys By good angels tenanted, Once a fair and stately palace- Radiant palace- reared its head. In the monarch Thought's dominion- It stood there! Never seraph spread a pinion Over fabric half so fair! Banners yel..."></div> </div> </div>

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