Edgar Allan Poe,
Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems
(1933)
“ No man be beguil'd, &c. ↑ With the Arabian there is a medium between Heaven and Hell, where men suffer no punishment, but yet do not attain that tranquil and even happiness which they suppose to be characteristic of heavenly enjoyment. ”
Edgar Allan Poe,
Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems
(1933)
“ The bee, feeding upon its blossom, becomes intoxicated. ↑ Clytia: The Chrysanthemum Peruvianum, or, to employ a better-known term – the turnsol which turns continually towards the sun, covers itself, like Peru, the country from which it comes, with dewy clouds which cool and refresh its flowers during the most violent heat of the day. ”
Edgar Allan Poe,
Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems
(1933)
“ It is, perhaps, not generally known that the moon, in Egypt, has the effect of producing blindness to those who sleep with the face exposed to its rays, to which circumstance the passage evidently alludes. ↑ The Albatross is said to sleep on the wing. ↑ I met with this idea in an old English tale, which I am now unable to obtain and quote from memory:– "The verie essence and, as it were, springe-heade, and origine of all musiche is the verie pleasaunte sounde which the trees of the forest do make when they growe." ↑ The wild bee will not sleep in the shade if there be moonlight. ”
