Edgar Allan Poe

"Quoth the Raven, Nevermore."
Excerpt from "The Raven"

Grief, revenge, and unsurpassed sorrow. Few authors can replicate these feelings as well as Edgar Allan Poe. "The Raven", "Lenore", and "Annabel Lee" all refer to an instance where the narrator is grieving over a lost loved one.
See! on yon drear and rigid bier low lies thy love, Lenore!
Come! let the burial rite be read- the funeral song be sung!-
An anthem for the queenliest dead that ever died so young-
A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young. ("Lenore")

Poe spent most of his life grieving for lost loved ones. His first wife Virginia Clemm died five years into their marriage of tuberculosis. Poe endured many tragedies and his poetry reflects his agony and torture.

"Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil- prophet still, if bird or devil
By that Heaven bends above us- by that God we both adore
Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn,
It shall clasp a......

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