 | Coventry Patmore - Children's poetry - 1866 - 374 pages
...yore Meant in croaking ' Nevermore.' "This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing b the fowl whose fiery eyes now burnt into my bosom's...lamp-light gloating o'er, She shall press, ah, nevermore ! ' Prophet ! ' said I, ' thing of evil — prophet still, if bird or devil ! ry that heaven that bends... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Elocution - 1866 - 618 pages
...This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl, whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core ; This and more I sat divining,...lamp-light gloating o'er She shall press — ah ! nevermore ! 14. Then methought the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer Swung by seraphim, whose foot-falls... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Readers (Secondary) - 1866 - 568 pages
...This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl whose "fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core; This and more I sat divining,...lamplight gloating o'er She shall press, ah ! nevermore 1 Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer Swung by angels whose faint... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1866 - 332 pages
...This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core ; This and more I sat divining,...the lamp-light gloating o'er She shall press, ah, never more Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an. unseen censer Swung by seraphim,... | |
 | James Fleming - 1866 - 382 pages
...whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core ; This and more I sat divining, with my head at cage reclining On the cushion's velvet lining that the...grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer Swung by Seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the " Wretch," I cried, " thy God hath lent thee— by these angels... | |
 | Nathaniel Kirk Richardson - Readers - 1866 - 204 pages
...This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl, whose fiery eyes now burn'd into my bosom's core This and more I sat divining,...lining, with the lamp-light gloating o'er, She shall press—ah ! nevermore ! Then methought the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer Swung by... | |
 | Gems - English poetry - 1866 - 168 pages
...This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burn'd into my bosom's core ; This and more I sat divining,...violet lining, with the lamp-light gloating o'er, S/tc shall press, ah, never more ! Then methought the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1866 - 200 pages
...Thus I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core ; This and more I sat divining,...cushion's velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o'er, Hut whose velvet violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o'er Site shall press, ah, nevermore !... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1867 - 758 pages
...This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's +core ; This and more I sat divining,...lamp-light gloating o'er She shall press, ah, nevermore ! 14. Then, mcthought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer Swung by Seraphim, whose... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1862 - 610 pages
...This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl, whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core; This and more I sat divining,...lining, with the lamp-light gloating o'er, She shall press—ah ! nevermore! XIV Then methought the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer Swung... | |
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This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core; This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o'er, But... 
