ocean-crag

Updated: July 22, 2025

Thus it will appear that, shaken from its balance only by trivial things, my reason bore resemblance to that ocean-crag spoken of by Ptolemy Hephestion, which steadily resisting the attacks of human violence, and the fiercer fury of the waters and the winds, trembled only to the touch of the flower called Asphodel.

Edgar Allan Poe - The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2