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... Southern Writers: Selections in Prose and Verse - Page 214edited by - 1905 - 524 pagesFull view - About this book
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...flown before — On the morrow /it will leave me, as my hopes have flown before." Then the bird said " Nevermore." Startled at the stillness broken by reply...nevermore.' " But the Raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling, Straight 1 wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird and bust and door; Then,... | |
| 1845 - 778 pages
...flown before — On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before." Then the bird said "Nevermore." Startled at the stillness broken by reply...aptly spoken, " Doubtless" said I, " what it utters i.< its only stock an-l store Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful Disaster Followed fast... | |
| 1848 - 780 pages
...flown before — On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.' Then the bird said * Nevermore.' "Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken, ' Doubtless,' said 1, 'what it • rs is its only stock and store, Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful Disaster... | |
| Caricatures and cartoons - 1887 - 340 pages
...shore— " Say if travelling your small game is, are you off to some far shore?" Quoth DTTNRAVEN, " Nevermore ! " Startled at the stillness broken by...spoken, "Doubtless," said I, " what it utters is its parrot stock and store " Caught from Woodcock, its pet master, who so sold me. Sure disaster " Follows... | |
| Periodicals - 1845 - 688 pages
...the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before." Quoth the raven, " Nevermore." Wondering at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken,...unmerciful Disaster Followed fast and followed faster — so, when Hope he would adjure, Stern Despair returned, instead of the sweet Hope he dared adjure... | |
| Periodicals - 1845 - 732 pages
...the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before." Quoth the raven, " Nevermore." Wondering alone did not coincide with the custom. Had I not been a Scarabœus, therefore, 1 — so, when Hope he would adjure, Stern Despair returned, instead of the sweet Hope he dared adjure... | |
| Ireland - 1855 - 724 pages
...On the morrow ke will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.' Then the bird said, ' Never more.' Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly...whom unmerciful disaster Followed fast and followed fester, 'till his songs one burden boreTill the dirges of his hope that melancholy burden bore, Of... | |
| Nathaniel Parker Willis - United States - 1851 - 256 pages
...were very intimate with him, a reflection and an echo of his own history. He was that bird's " — — Unhappy master, Whom unmerciful Disaster Followed fast and followed faster, Till his songs the burden bore — Till the dirges of his hope, the Melancholy burden bore Of ' Never, never-more.'... | |
| 1852 - 620 pages
...leave me, as my hopes have flown before ;' Then the bird said, ' Nevermore.' " Startled by the silence broken by reply so aptly spoken ; ' Doubtless,' said...nevermore.' " But the Raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling, Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird and bust and door; Then,... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1852 - 380 pages
...Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door, With such a name as " Nevermore." 10. Startled at the stillness, broken by reply so aptly...melancholy burden bore, Of — " Never — nevermore." 11. But the Raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling, Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat... | |
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