“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)
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United States poet 1803–1878Related quotes

Source: Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe (1861), Chapter 6 (at page 48)

“The drift of pinions, would we hearken,
Beats at our own clay-shuttered doors.”
St. 3.
The Kingdom of God http://www.bartleby.com/236/245.html (1913)