The Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe, with Original Memoir. Illustrated by F. R. Pickersgill, J. Tenniel, Birket Foster, Etc1866 |
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... skies they were ashen and sober ; The leaves they were crisped and sere― The leaves they were withering and sere ; It was night in the lonesome October Of my most immemorial year ; It was hard by the dim lake of Auber , 21.
... skies they were ashen and sober ; The leaves they were crisped and sere― The leaves they were withering and sere ; It was night in the lonesome October Of my most immemorial year ; It was hard by the dim lake of Auber , 21.
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... - She revels in a region of sighs : She has seen that the tears are not dry on These cheeks , where the worm never dies , And has come past the stars of the Lion To point us the path to the skies— To the 23 ULALUME .
... - She revels in a region of sighs : She has seen that the tears are not dry on These cheeks , where the worm never dies , And has come past the stars of the Lion To point us the path to the skies— To the 23 ULALUME .
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Edgar Allan Poe. To point us the path to the skies— To the Lethean peace of the skies- Come up , in despite of the Lion , To shine on us with her bright eyes- Come up through the lair of the Lion , With love in her luminous eyes . " But ...
Edgar Allan Poe. To point us the path to the skies— To the Lethean peace of the skies- Come up , in despite of the Lion , To shine on us with her bright eyes- Come up through the lair of the Lion , With love in her luminous eyes . " But ...
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... skies that angel trod , Where deep thoughts are a duty— Where Love's a grown - up God- Where the Houri glances are Imbued with all the beauty Which we worship in a star . Therefore , thou art not wrong , Israfeli , who despisest An ...
... skies that angel trod , Where deep thoughts are a duty— Where Love's a grown - up God- Where the Houri glances are Imbued with all the beauty Which we worship in a star . Therefore , thou art not wrong , Israfeli , who despisest An ...
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... Like some enchanted far - off isle In some tumultuous sea- Some ocean throbbing far and free With storms - but where meanwhile Serenest skies continually Just o'er that one bright island smile . THOU wast that all to me , love , For 39 55.
... Like some enchanted far - off isle In some tumultuous sea- Some ocean throbbing far and free With storms - but where meanwhile Serenest skies continually Just o'er that one bright island smile . THOU wast that all to me , love , For 39 55.
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Page 1 - ONCE upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. " Tis some visitor," I muttered, " tapping at my chamber door — Only this, and nothing more.
Page 4 - Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter, In there stepped a stately raven, of the saintly days of yore. Not the least obeisance made he; not a...
Page 7 - And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, . And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor: And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted — nevermore...
Page 4 - Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken, "Doubtless," said I, "what it utters is its only stock and store, Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful disaster Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore, Till the dirges of his hope that melancholy burden bore Of 'Never — nevermore.
Page 2 - Ah ! distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow ; vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow — sorrow for the lost Lenore — For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore — Nameless here for evermore.
Page 39 - It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of Annabel Lee; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.
Page 39 - And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me. I was a child and she was a child. In this kingdom by the sea, But we loved with a love that was more than love, I and my Annabel Lee; With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me.
Page 58 - By a route obscure and lonely, Haunted by ill angels only, Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT, On a black throne reigns upright, I have reached these lands but newly From an ultimate dim Thule — From a wild weird clime that lieth, sublime, Out of SPACE — out of TIME.
Page 6 - Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!" I shrieked, upstarting: "Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore ! Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken ! Leave my loneliness unbroken! quit the bust above my door! 100 Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
Page 31 - With a desperate desire, And a resolute endeavor, Now — now to sit or never, By the side of the pale-faced moon. Oh, the bells, bells, bells! What a tale their terror tells Of despair! How they clang, and clash, and roar!