 | James Fleming - 1866 - 382 pages
...What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore, Meant in croaking " Nevermore." This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing...core ; This and more I sat divining, with my head at cage reclining On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o'er, But whose velvet violet... | |
 | Gems - 1866 - 168 pages
...What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, 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 now burn'd into my bosom's core ; This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining On the cushion's... | |
 | Nathaniel Kirk Richardson - 1866 - 204 pages
...yore— What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking "Nevermore!" 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, with my head at ease reclining On the cushion's... | |
 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1866 - 408 pages
...• What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt and ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking " Nevermore." This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burnt into my bosom's core ; This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining On the cushion's... | |
 | 1866 - 408 pages
...— What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt and ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking " Nevermore." This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burnt into my bosom's core; This and more I sat divining, with my head . at ease reclining On the cushion's... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1867 - 758 pages
...this grim, ungainly, "'"ghastly, +gaunt, and ominous bird of yore Meant, in croaking " Nevermore." 13. This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing...gloating o'er She shall press, ah, nevermore ! 14. Then, mcthought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer Swung by Seraphim, whose footfalls tinkled... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1862 - 610 pages
...this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking—"Nevermore!" XIII. This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing...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... | |
 | John Dudley Philbrick - 1868 - 636 pages
...this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking, " Nevermore." Thus I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing...lamp-light gloating o'er, She shall press, ah, nevermore ! Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer, Swung by angels whose faint... | |
 | 1868 - 574 pages
...or she happens to be reading. Sitting in the calm retirement of my own arm-chair on Whit• Monday, "engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing to...whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core"— I allude to the pipe of bird's-eye to which poverty has reduced me— having in vain tried to get my... | |
 | Andrew Comstock, Philip Lawrence - 1808 - 596 pages
...What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking " Nevermore !" 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, with my head at ease reclining On the cushion's... | |
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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... 
