 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
 | 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... | |
 | J. Gerald Kennedy, Liliane Weissberg - 2001 - 311 pages
...spoken" reply, the speaker assumes that it is merely parroting the words of "some unhappy master": "Doubtless," said I, "what it utters is its only stock...and followed faster till his songs one burden bore — " (Mabbott, 1:367) The speaker's words link the "croak" of the raven with the master-slave relation... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 2002 - 304 pages
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