Can You Match These Edgar Allan Poe Quotes to His Poems?
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"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing"
- Alone
- To One in Paradise
- Annabel Lee
- The Raven
"From the rust within their throats is a groan"
- The Valley of the Unrest
- The Bells
- The Sleeper
- Sonnet-to Science
"With a love that the winged seraphs of Heaven coveted her and me"
- The Happiest Day
- Enigma
- Annabel Lee
- The City in the Sea
"No power hath he of evil in himself"
- Sonnet-Silence
- The Sleeper
- Hymn
- Romance
"A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young"
- Annabel Lee
- The Raven
- Lenore
- Fairyland
"Democritus of Thrace, who used to toss over"
- Mysterious Star!
- The Valley of the Unrest
- To Helen
- O, Tempura! O, Mores!
"In the summer sky; in dreamy fields of light"
- Dreams
- A Dream Within a Dream
- Lenore
- To F--
"Their odorous souls in an ecstatic death"
- The Bells
- To Helen
- The Haunted Palace
- Eulalie-A Song
"But evil things, in robes of sorrow, assailed the monarch's high estate"
- The Raven
- Tell-Tale Heart
- The Haunted Palace
- Alone
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream"
- Mysterious Star!
- Romance
- Enigma
- A Dream Within a Dream
"There shrines and palaces and towers"
- A Dream Within a Dream
- The City in the Sea
- Fairyland
- Murders in the Rue Morgue
"Steals drowsily and musically into the universal valley"
- Hymn
- Ulaline-A Ballad
- The Valley of the Unrest
- The Sleeper
"To the Lethean peace of the skies-come up, in despite of the Lion"
- Ulalune-A Ballad
- O, Tempora! O, Mores!
- Sonnet-Silence
- To Helen
"Why preyest thou thus upon the poet's heart, Vulture, whose wings are dull realities"
- Tell-Tale Heart
- The Raven
- Sonnet-To Science
- Lenore
"The prince of harmony and stirling sense"
- Enigma
- The Haunted Palace
- To One in Paradise
- To F--
About This Quiz
Edgar Allan Poe has inspired many writers today with his influential gothic literature. The late author and poet’s work has many quote-worthy moments that have captured an audience, such as posters stating “Quoth the Raven—Nevermore!” with a picture of the staple blackbird.
However, not all of his works are well known or often quoted. This quiz will test your literary knowledge and memory of multiple stories written by Edgar Allan Poe. Are you an active reader, or is your memory restricted to the few poems you may have read in high school?
How well do you know Edgar Allan Poe quotes? Find out with this quiz!
Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
Edgar Allen Poe quotes are often memorized by literary scholars and poetry fans alike. These words were written by an American 19th-century author and poet who is renowned in the genre of Dark Romanticism. Some of Poe's most famous titles include "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Raven". Quotes from these stories have been used in literary analyses in the attempt to better understand concepts such as existentialism, death, the macabre, and the psyche.
Stories, such as "The Raven", published in 1844, have led to one of Poe's most recalled and well-known quote, "Quoth the raven--Nevermore!". Other well-known quotes written by Poe include "I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity", "We loved with a love that was more than love" (Annabel Lee), and "And I loved, I loved alone" (Alone).