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Sarah Helen Whitman – poetka amerykańska.

✵ 19. Styczeń 1803 – 27. Czerwiec 1878
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Sarah Helen Whitman: Cytaty po angielsku

“Star of resplendent front! Thy glorious eye
Shines on me still from out yon clouded sky.”

Arcturus (To Edgar Allan Poe).
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“The sweet imperious mouth, whose haughty valor
Defied all portents of impending doom.”

The Portrait. (Of Poe).
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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

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

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

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