| 1855 - 1428 pages
...gaunt, and ominous bird of yore, Meant in croaking ' Never moie.' This I sat engaged In guessing, bat no syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned Into my bosom's corf; This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining On the cushion's velvet lining,... | |
| Great Britain - 1854 - 500 pages
...sad ; " but not after " uncertain," as it " immediately qualifies" the verbal noun "rustling." 4. " What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, Gaunt and ominous bird of yore, Meant in croaking, ' Never more.' " 5. " Deep into that darkness peering, Long I stood there, wondering, fearing, Doubting,... | |
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - American literature - 1855 - 474 pages
...in croaking " Nevermore." This I »it engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl i bosom's core ; This and more I sat divining, with my head at en*e reclining On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamplight gloated o'er, But »luxe velvet violet... | |
| Joseph Gostwick - American literature - 1856 - 338 pages
...front of bird and bust and door ; Then upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore —...gaunt, and ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking " Never more." This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes... | |
| Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 pages
...of bird, and bust, and door : Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore —...reclining On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o'er, But whose velvet violet lining with the lamplight gloating o'er She shall... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1857 - 456 pages
...front of bird, and bust, and door; Then upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy unfo fancy, thinking what this +ominous bird of + yore, What this grim, ungainly, tghastly, +gaunt, and ominous bird of yore Meant, in croaking " Nevermore." 13. Thus I sat engag'd... | |
| Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - American poetry - 1858 - 642 pages
...front of bird and bust and door : Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore —...reclining On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o'er, But whose velvet violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o'er She shall... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1858 - 752 pages
...gaunt, and ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking " Never more." This I sat engaged in gnessing, bnt no syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes...This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease rcclining On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o'er, Bnt whose velvet violet... | |
| Lucius Osgood - Elocution - 1858 - 494 pages
...of bird, and bust, and door ; Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore, —...ominous bird of yore — Meant in croaking "Nevermore." 13. Thus I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl, whose fiery eyes now burn'd... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - American poetry - 1858 - 332 pages
...front of bird and bust and door ; Then, upon the velvet sinking, I Betook myself to linking Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore —...gaunt, and ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking " Nevermore.'7 This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes... | |
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