Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore, Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted — On this home by Horror haunted — tell me truly, I implore: Is there — is there balm in Gilead? — tell me — tell me,... The New York Speaker - Page 269by Warren P. Edgarton - 1868Full view - About this book
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...land enchanted — On this home by horror haunted — tell me truly, I implore — Is there — in there balm in Gilead ? — tell me — tell me, 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... | |
| American literature - 1847 - 434 pages
...whether tempest tossed thee here ashore, Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted—- On this home by Horror haunted — tell me truly, I implore...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... | |
| Ireland - 1855 - 724 pages
...all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted— On this home by horror haunted — tell me truly, 1 implore — Is there — is there balm in Gilead? tell me— tell me, I implore ! ' Quoth the Raven, 'Never more . ' Prophet !' said I, . thing of evil !— prophet still, if bird or devil ! liy that... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1852 - 298 pages
...tempest tossed thee here ashore, Desolate, yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted — On this home by horror haunted — tell me truly, I implore...— tell me — tell me, I implore!" Quoth the Raven " Never more." "Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil— prophet still, if bird or devil ! By that heaven... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1852 - 380 pages
...tempest tossed thee here ashore, Desolate, yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted — * On this home by Horror haunted — tell me truly, I implore...? — tell me — tell me, I implore ! " Quoth the Eaven, " Nevermore." 15. " Prophet ! " said I, " thing of evil ! — prophet still, if bird or devil... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1852 - 588 pages
...whether Tempest toss'd thee here ashore, Desolate yet all undaunted, On this desert land enchanted — On this home by Horror haunted — 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 I, « thing... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Parker Willis - American literature - 1853 - 522 pages
...first put pen. to -papfliJGL&a. _ ,. composition of the stanza : " Prophet," said I, " thing of evil 1 prophet still if bird or devil ! By that heaven that...laden, if within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a fainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore — Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name... | |
| American periodicals - 1853 - 848 pages
...dirges of his hope that melancholy burden bore. Of — Never, never more." "Prophet," said I, "king of evil — prophet still, if bird or devil ! By that...this soul, with sorrow laden, if within the distant Aiden, It shall clasp a sainted maiden, whom the angels name Lenore — Clasp a rare and radiant maiden,... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1853 - 188 pages
...tempest tossed thee here ashore, Desolate, yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted — On this home by Horror haunted — tell me truly, I implore...tell me, I implore ! " Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore." XVI. " Prophet ! " said I, " thing of evil ! — prophet still, if bird or devil ! By that Heaven that... | |
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