 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...  New National Fifth Reader - Page 456by Charles Joseph Barnes - 1884 - 480 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1995 - 60 pages
...before— On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before." Then the bird said "Nevermore." Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly...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
...dialectically sublate these opposed notions of the purely artificial and the spontaneously genuine: "Doubtless," said I, "what it utters is its only stock...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... | |
 | Fredric Lown, Judith W. Steinbergh - 1996 - 194 pages
...before; On the morrow he will leave me as my hopes have flown before." Then the bird said, "Nevermore." Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly...the dirges of his hope that melancholy burden bore Of 'Never — nevermore/" But the Raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling, Straight I wheeled... | |
 | George Monteiro - 1996 - 212 pages
...Allan Poe employs the "master-disaster" rhyme in "The Raven," that great poem of irrevocable loss: "Doubtless," said I, "what it utters is its only stock...the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore Of 'Never — nevermore.'"39 Poe not only anticipates Bishop's "master-disaster" rhyme but, remarkably,... | |
 | Various - 1996 - 496 pages
...On the morrow he will leave me as my hopes have flown before." 60 Then the bird said, "Nevermore." Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Robert X. Leeds - 1999 - 366 pages
...— On the morrow he will leave me, as my Hopes have flown before." Then the bird said, "Nevermore." Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly...the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore Of 'Never - nevermore.' '' But the raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling, Straight I wheeled... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - 2000 - 662 pages
...— On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before." Then the bird said "Nevermore." Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly...the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore Of 'Never-nevermore.' " But the Raven still beguiling all my fancy into smiling, Straight I wheeled... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 2000 - 678 pages
...On the morrow he will leave me, as my Hopes have flown before." 60 Then the bird said "Nevermore." Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly...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... | |
 | David L. Larsen - 644 pages
...by those who were intimate with him, a reflection and an echo of his own history. He was that bird's "unhappy master whom unmerciful Disaster followed...and followed faster till his songs one burden bore of 'Never — nevermore.'"7 DH Lawrence said he believed that Poe was "concerned with the disintegrative... | |
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