 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1883 - 222 pages
...with the light— Of the love of my Annie — With the thought of the light Of the eyes of my Annie. ULALUME. THE skies they were ashen and sober ; The...they were withering and sere ; It was night in the lonesomei October Of my most immemorial year ; It was hard by the dim lake of Auber, _ {* In the misty... | |
 | 1883 - 1004 pages
...general, is evident to any one who is but superficially familiar with the works of the two men. Turn to " Ulalume." " The skies they were ashen and sober, The...crisped and sere— The leaves they were withering and gore ; It was night In the lonesome October Of my most Immemorial year; It was hard by the dim lake... | |
 | 1884 - 572 pages
...We should have little faith in the bird-song described by either one of those wizards of romance. " The skies they were ashen and sober, The leaves they were crisped and sere," in all their works. Cheerfulness and enthusiasm have always seemed to me to belong of right to the... | |
 | Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - 1884 - 536 pages
...felt, The Poet's mastery? EDCKAR ALLAN POE. ULALUME. The skies they were ashen and sobcr; The leayes they were crisped and sere— The leaves they were withering and sere; It was hard by the dim lake of Auber, In the misty mid region of Weir— It was down by the dank tarn of Auber,... | |
 | 1884 - 502 pages
...We should have little faith in the bird-song described by either one of those wizards of romance. " The skies they were ashen and sober, The leaves they were crisped and sere," lengthen a yard-measure is to gauge each new length of cloth by the preceding one, and not by the yardstick.... | |
 | 1885 - 304 pages
...my Annabel Lee. Mr. and Mrs. Sfoopenayie. By Stanley Huntley, " Brooklyn Eagle." of the UI.ALUME. I. THE skies they were ashen and sober ; The leaves they...misty mid region of Weir, — It was down by the dank tam of Auber, In the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir. II. Here once, through an alley Titanic Of cypress,... | |
 | John J. Moran - 1885 - 104 pages
...fulfilled. Of the first meeting and the last farewell, the illustrious poet sings in his wonderful poem, "Ulalume:" The skies they were ashen and sober, The leaves they were crisped and sere; It was night in the lonesome October ( )f my most immemorial year. Our talk had been serious and sober,... | |
 | James Johonnot - 1885 - 202 pages
...Peri beneath the dark sea" ^ " I see the dagger crest of Mar ; I see the Moray's silver star." m " The skies they were ashen and sober, The leaves they were crisped and sere." ®*> LESSON LXXX. The pirate was captured on the high seas. " He sees the white thread of the pathway... | |
 | Maurice Thompson - 1885 - 192 pages
...We should have little faith in the bird-song described by either one of those wizards of romance. " The skies they were ashen and sober, The leaves they were crisped and sere," in all their works. Cheerfulness and enthusiasm have always seemed to me to belong of right to the... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1885 - 218 pages
...fails to convey the proper suggestion in sound if not in sense. Take the lines in ' Ulalume : ' — ' It was night in the lonesome October Of my most immemorial year.' Here it would puzzle the most adroit student of words to attach a distinct usual sense, authenticated... | |
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The skies they were ashen and sober; The leaves they were crisped and sere — The leaves they were withering and sere; It was night in the lonesome October Of my most immemorial year... 
