Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer Swung by seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor. "Wretch... The Raven - Page xxviiby Edgar Allan Poe - 1898 - 36 pagesFull view - About this book
| Ephraim Hunt - American literature - 1872 - 658 pages
...whose velvet violet lining, with the lamplight gloating o'er, She shall press — ah, nevermore I Then methought the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen...hath lent thee, by these angels he hath sent thee Respite — respite and nepenthe — from thy memories of Lenore ! Quaff, oh 1 quaff this kind nepenthe,... | |
| Martin Gardner - Poetry - 1992 - 226 pages
...the lamp-light gloated o'er, But whose velvet violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o'er, Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen...hath lent thee — by these angels he hath sent thee Respite — respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore; Quaff, ob quaff this kind nepenthe and... | |
| Jay Parini - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 788 pages
...whose velvet-violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o'er, She shall press, ah, nevermore! Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen...tufted floor. "Wretch," I cried, "thy God hath lent thee—by these angels he hath sent thee Respite—respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore;... | |
| Fredric Lown, Judith W. Steinbergh - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1996 - 194 pages
...But whose velvet violet lining with the lamplight gloating o'er She shall press, ah, nevermore! Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen...hath lent thee — by these angels he hath sent thee Respite — respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore! Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe and... | |
| Various - Poetry - 1996 - 496 pages
...shall press, ah, nevermore! Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer 80 Swung by seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the...hath lent thee — by these angels he hath sent thee Respite, respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore! Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe and forget... | |
| David Lozell Martin, David Martin - Fiction - 1996 - 362 pages
...just stepping to his bedroom window when he smells something awful, rotting fish. Then, me thought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer...seraphim whose footfalls tinkled on the tufted floor . . . And turns to see, standing there in the doorway leading to the hall, a slightly built man wearing... | |
| Guy Davenport - Literary Collections - 1997 - 404 pages
...the arabesque. In "The Raven" we have a dominant grotesque key, with a vision of an arabesque Eden, "perfumed from an unseen censer / Swung by Seraphim whose footfalls tinkled on the tufted floor," and a grotesque raven sits on a classical bust of Pallas Athene. That raven was the device on the flag... | |
| Diane Ravitch - Reference - 2000 - 662 pages
...whose velvet violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o'er, She shall press, ah, nevermore! Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen...hath lent thee — by these angels he hath sent thee Respite — respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore; Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe and... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - Poetry - 2000 - 678 pages
...shall press, ah, nevermore! Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer 80 Swung by seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the...hath lent thee — by these angels he hath sent thee Respite — respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore; Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe and... | |
| Robert X. Leeds - American poetry - 1999 - 366 pages
...whose velvet violet lining with the lamplight gloating o'er, She shall press, ah, nevermore! Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer Swung by angels whose faint foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor. "Wretch," I cried, "thy God hath lent thee... | |
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