 | Alexander Kennedy Isbister - 1870 - 420 pages
...still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling, Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird, and Then upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking...Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of bust, and door; This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl, whose fiery... | |
 | Jay Parini - 1995 - 788 pages
...Of'Never—nevermore.' " But the Raven still beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird, and bust and door; Then, upon...syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core; This and more 1 sat divining, with my head at ease reclining On the cushion's... | |
 | Jonathan Elmer - 1995 - 284 pages
...engenders its own compulsion-to-sense" (p- 99) — cannot be evaded, as the next stanza indicates: Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to...ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking "Nevermore." The final absorption in the project of understanding is emphasized here by the enjambment on the word... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1995 - 60 pages
...'Never—nevermore.'" But the Raven still beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird, and bust and door; Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancv unto fancv, thinking what this ominous bird of vore— What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt,... | |
 | Fredric Lown, Judith W. Steinbergh - 1996 - 194 pages
...nevermore/" But the Raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling, Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird and bust and door; Then, upon...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... | |
 | Various - 1996 - 496 pages
...burden bore Of 'Never — nevermore.' '' Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking 70 Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird...syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core; 75 This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining On the... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - 2000 - 662 pages
...'Never-nevermore.' " But the Raven still beguiling all my fancy into smiling, Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird, and bust and door; Then, upon...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... | |
 | Ḥayim Gordon - 2000 - 146 pages
...anxiety: But the raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling. Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird and bust and door; Then upon...ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking "Nevermore." In a mood of anxiety a person may sink into a linking of fancy unto fancy, thinking ominous depressing... | |
 | Robert X. Leeds - 1999 - 366 pages
...nevermore.' '' But the raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling, Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird and bust and door; Then upon...myself to linking Fancy unto fancy, thinking what his ominous bird of yore — What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore Meant... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 2000 - 678 pages
...nevermore.' " But the Raven still beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird, and bust and door; Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking 70 Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore — What this grim, ungainly, ghastly,... | |
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But the Raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling, Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird and bust and door; Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore, What... 
