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Best Remembered Poems

Martin Gardner - 1992 - 226 pages
...Raven of the saintly days of yore. Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he; But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber...— Perched, and sat, and nothing more. Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it...
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Verdad y escritura: Hölderlin, Poe, Artaud, Bataille, Benjamin, Blanchot

José Luis Rodríguez García - 1994 - 260 pages
...sorprendentemente, hasta la figura sobre la que reposa el cuervo parece ser puro efectismo: el negro visitante with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door — Perched upon a bmt of Pallas just above my chamber door.21 Y comenta Poe: «elegí el busto de Palas porque se adecuaba,...
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The Columbia Anthology of American Poetry

Jay Parini - 1995 - 788 pages
...Raven of the saintly days of yore: Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he; But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber...door— Perched, and sat, and nothing more. Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it...
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Nevermore!: Edgar Allan Poe : the Final Mystery

Julian Wiles - 1995 - 98 pages
...when, with many a flirt and flutter, In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore. Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door Perched, and sat, and nothing more... "Tell me what thy Lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!" Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore." "Prophet!"...
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Reading and Writing Poetry with Teenagers

Fredric Lown, Judith W. Steinbergh - 1996 - 194 pages
...Raven of the saintly days of yore. Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he; But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber...door: Perched, and sat, and nothing more. Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy smiling By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore...
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Nineteenth-Century American Poetry

Various - 1996 - 496 pages
...of the saintly days of yore. Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he, 40 But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber...Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door, Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, By the grave and stern decorum of the...
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Literary Theory and Criticism

Edgar Allan Poe, Leonard Cassuto - 1999 - 228 pages
..."with many a flirt and fhttter." Not the least obeisanre made he — not a moment stopped or stayed he, But with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door. In the two stanzas which follow, the design is more obviously carried out: — Then this ebony bird...
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El proceso de la creación artística

Miguel Arteche - 1999 - 170 pages
...mi habitación... En las dos estrofas que siguen, la intención es más evidente: Then, this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling By the grave and stern decorum of the coutenance it wore, "Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou", I said, "art sure no /craven, Ghastly,...
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Doctor Leeds' Selection of Popular Epic Recitations for Minstrel and Stage Use

Robert X. Leeds - 1999 - 366 pages
...Raven of the saintly days of yore; Not the least obeisance made he; not a moment stopped or stayed he; But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber...door Perched, and sat, and nothing more. Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it...
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The American Reader: Words That Moved a Nation

Diane Ravitch - 2000 - 662 pages
...Raven of the saintly days of yore. Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he; But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber...— Perched, and sat, and nothing more. Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it...
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