Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Quotes reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

Enchantress of the stormy seas,
Priestess of Night's high mysteries.

• Star of resplendent front! Thy glorious eye
  Shines on me still from out yon clouded sky.
  • Arcturus (To Edgar Allan Poe).

• Tell him I lingered alone on the shore,
  Where we parted, in sorrow, to meet nevermore;
  The night-wind blew cold on my desolate heart
  But colder those wild words of doom,—“Ye must part.”
  • Our Island of Dreams.

• The sweet imperious mouth, whose haughty valor
  Defied all portents of impending doom.
  • The Portrait. (Of Poe).

• Warm lights are on the sleepy uplands waning
  Beneath dark clouds along the horizon rolled,
  Till the slant sunbeams through the fringes raining
  Bathe all the hills in melancholy gold.
  • A still Day in Autumn.

• Enchantress of the stormy seas,
  Priestess of Night's high mysteries.
  • Moonrise in May.

• The summer skies are darkly blue,
  The days are still and bright,
  And Evening trails her robes of gold
  Through the dim halls of Night.
  • Summer's Call. Compare: "I heard the trailing garments of the Night / Sweep through her marble halls", Longfellow.

• Raven from the dim dominions
  On the Night's Plutonian shore,
  Oft I hear thy dusky pinions
  Wave and flutter round my door—
  See the shadow of thy pinions
  Float along the moonlit floor.
  • The Raven (written as a counterpart to Poe's poem by the same name).