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... The Poetical Works ...: With Memoir and Vindication - Page 41by Edgar Allan Poe - 1876 - 190 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1845 - 778 pages
...Other friends have flown before — On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before." Then the bird said "Nevermore." Startled at the stillness...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
...Other friends have flown before — On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.' Then the bird said * Nevermore.' "Startled at the...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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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 - 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.'... | |
| 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... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1852 - 308 pages
...On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before." Then the bird said, " Never more." Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly...Followed fast and followed faster, till his songs one bur. den bore— Till the dirges of his hope that melancholy burden bore. Of' Never—never more.'... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1852 - 610 pages
...leave me, as my hopes have flown before ;' Then the bird said, 'Nevermore.' " Startled by the silence e parish-Stocks for a vagrant. " I should be glad...But for my part 1 never love to meddle With politi follwed faster, till his songs one burden bore — Till the dirges of his hope that melancholy burden... | |
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