| Edgar Allan Poe - 1852 - 298 pages
...But whose velvet violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o'er She shall press, ah, never more ! Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from...tufted floor. "Wretch!" I cried, "thy god hath lent thee — by these angels he hath sent thee Respite — respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1852 - 308 pages
...gloating o'er She shall press, ah, never more! Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from nn unseen censer Swung by seraphim, whose foot-falls...cried, "thy god hath lent thee—by these angels he hath sent thec Respite—respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenorc ! Quaff, oh, quaff, this... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1852 - 588 pages
...metliought, the air grew denser, Perfum'd from an unseen censer, Swung by angels whose faint foot-falla Tinkled on the tufted floor. « Wretch," I cried, " thy God hath lent thee By these angels he hath sent thce Respite — respite and nepenthe From thy memories of I.enore... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1853 - 188 pages
...whose velvet violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o'er, She shall press, ah, nevermore ! XIV. Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from...tufted floor. "Wretch," I cried, "thy God hath lent thee — by these angels he hath sent thee Respite — respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1853 - 522 pages
...o'er, But whose velvet violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o'er She shall press, ah, nevermore ! Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from...tufted floor. " Wretch," I cried, " thy God hath lent thee — by these angels he hath sent thee Kespite — respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore... | |
| Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 pages
...gloating o'er She shall press, ah, nevermore ! Then methought the air grew denser, perfumed from an Swung by seraphim whose footfalls tinkled on the tufted floor. " Wretch !" I cried, " thy God hath lent thee— by these angels he hath sent thee Respite — respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore... | |
| 1853 - 774 pages
...says, in a poem of kindred beauty and power, " The Last Word* of Al-Hassan" : — " Then, mcthought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer, Swung by seraphim, whose footfallt tiniled on the tufledjloor. ' Wretch,' I cried, ' thy God hath lent thee, by these angels... | |
| 1854 - 80 pages
...But whose velvet violet lining, with the lamplight gloating o'er, She shall press, ah ! nevermore ! Then methought the air grew denser, perfumed from...tufted floor. " Wretch !" I cried, " thy God hath sent thee — by these angels he hath sent thee, Respite, respite and Nepenthe, from thy memories of... | |
| 1854 - 380 pages
...methought, the air grew denser, Perfum'd from an unseen censer. Swung by angels whose faint foot-lulls Tinkled on the tufted floor. " Wretch," I cried, " thy God hath lent thec Bv these angels he hath sent thee Bespite— respite and nepenthe From thy memories of Lenore... | |
| Richard Wright Procter - 1855 - 490 pages
...But whose velvet violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o'er She shall press, ah, never more ! Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from...by seraphim, whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted "Wretch!" I cried, "thy God hath lent thee— by these angels he hath sent thee Respite — respite... | |
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