 | Jay Parini - 1995 - 788 pages
...the bird said "Nevermore." Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken, "Doubtless," said I, "what it utters is its only stock and store...the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore Of'Never—nevermore.' " But the Raven still beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, Straight I wheeled... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1995 - 60 pages
...the bird said "Nevermore." Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken, "Doubtless," said I, "what it utters is its only stock and store...songs one burden bore— Till the dirges of his Hope the melancholy burden bore Of 'Never—nevermore.'" But the Raven still beguiling my sad fancy into... | |
 | Jonathan Elmer - 1995 - 284 pages
...sublate these opposed notions of the purely artificial and the spontaneously genuine: "Doubtless," said I, "what it utters is its only stock and store...and followed faster till his songs one burden bore." The narrator here manages to have things both ways: while the bird's utterance is reduced to the purely... | |
 | George Monteiro - 1996 - 212 pages
...employs the "master-disaster" rhyme in "The Raven," that great poem of irrevocable loss: "Doubtless," said I, "what it utters is its only stock and store...of his Hope that melancholy burden bore Of 'Never — nevermore.'"39 Poe not only anticipates Bishop's "master-disaster" rhyme but, remarkably, her triple... | |
 | Various - 1996 - 496 pages
...the bird said, "Nevermore." Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken, "Doubtless," said I, "what it utters is its only stock and store,...and followed faster till his songs one burden bore, 65 Till the dirges of his hope that melancholy burden bore Of 'Never — nevermore.' '' Then, upon... | |
 | L. W. De Laurence - 1998 - 432 pages
...the bird said "Nevermore!" Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken, "Doubtless," said I, "what it utters is its only stock and store,...melancholy burden bore, Of — 'Never — nevermore 1" " But the raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling, Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat... | |
 | Arthur Hobson Quinn - 1997 - 872 pages
...Poe in the Broadway Journal to read as we now have it. In the American Review it had read in part: "Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful Disaster Followed fast and followed faster— so, when Hope he would adjure, Stern Despair returned, instead of the sweet Hope he dared adjureThat... | |
 | Cherie Kerr - 1996 - 172 pages
...if his soul in that one word he did outpour"? EMILY What "one word"? You're losing me, Edgar. EDGAR "Till the dirges of his hope that melancholy burden bore of never... nevermore." EMILY Sorry, I don't get it. And, quite frankly, it's still not morose enough for me. EDGAR [FURIOUSLY... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - 2000 - 662 pages
...the bird said "Nevermore." Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken, "Doubtless," said I, "what it utters is its only stock and store...dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore Of 'Never-nevermore.' " But the Raven still beguiling all my fancy into smiling, Straight I wheeled a... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 2000 - 678 pages
...the bird said "Nevermore." Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken, "Doubtless," said I, "what it utters is its only stock and store...and followed faster till his songs one burden bore — 65 Till the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore Of 'Never — nevermore.' " But the... | |
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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, —... 
