| Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...me truly, I implore — Is there — in there balm in Gilead ? — tell me — tell me, I implore!" Quoth the Raven, " Nevermore." " Prophet!" said I,...devil! By that Heaven that bends above us — by that (lod we both adore — Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp... | |
| Henry Allon - Christianity - 1886 - 618 pages
...self-contempt, its semi-consciousness of wilful delusion, culminates in the author's favourite stanza — ' Prophet ! ' said I, ' thing of evil ! prophet still, if bird or devil ! By that Heaven that l>ends above us, by that God we both adore, Tell this soul with sorrow laden, if within the distant... | |
| Periodicals - 1845 - 688 pages
...Nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore ! Let me quaff this kind Nepenthe and forget this lost Lenore!" Quoth the raven, " Nevermore." " Prophet !" said I, " thing of evil ! — prophet still, if bird or devil ! — Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thec here ashore, Desolate,... | |
| Periodicals - 1845 - 732 pages
...Nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore ! Let me quaff this kind Nepenthe and forget this lost Lenore !" up of English matter, have got all the money, and a few of the most eager pretenders hav if bird or devil ! — Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore, Desolate,... | |
| American literature - 1847 - 434 pages
...tell me truly, I implore — Is there — is there balm in Gilead — tell me — tell me, I implore!" Quoth the raven " Nevermore." " Prophet !" said I, " thing of evil — prophet still, if bird or devil t By that Heaven that bends above us — by that God we both adore — Tell this soul... | |
| United States - 1851 - 608 pages
...passages of fine natural passion and expression : for instance, — " Prophet." snid I, " thing of evil — prophet still, if bird or devil ! By that Heaven that bends abovo us, by that God we both adore, Tell this soul with sorrow laden, if, within the distant Aidenn,... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1852 - 380 pages
...there balm in Gilead ? — tell me — tell me, I implore ! " Quoth the Eaven, " Nevermore." 15. " Prophet ! " said I, " thing of evil ! — prophet...Aidenn It shall clasp a sainted maiden, whom the angels call Lenore — Clasp a rare and radiant maiden, whom the angels name Lenore ! " Quoth the Raven, "... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1852 - 588 pages
...Tell me truly, I implore — Is there — is there balm in Gilead 1 Tell me — tell me, I implore !" Quoth the raven " Nevermore." •' Prophet !'' said...above us— By that God we both adore — Tell this sou] with sorrow laden If, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden Whom the angels... | |
| 1852 - 620 pages
...nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore ! Quaff, oh, quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore !' Quoth the Raven, ' Nevermore !' " ' Prophet,' said I, ' thing of evil, prophet still, if bird or devil ! Whether tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore, Desolate, yet... | |
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