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

“The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe ! 1 Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, 2 Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore — 3 While I nodded, nearly …

Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter, In there stepped a stately raven of the saintly days of yore; Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed …

Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore: Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!" Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."

THE RAVEN. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there …

The Raven – Edgar Allan Poe (1) Once upon a midnight dreary1, while I pondered weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore2, While I nodded, nearly …

Stanza 1 1 Once upon a midnight dreary , while I pondered , weak and weary , [pondered: meditated , studied ] 2 Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore— [forgotten …

Perhaps Edgar Allen Poe’s most famous poem, the “Raven” is a macabre exploration of a man, his memories of Lenore, and the black bird that interrupts his studies on a dark December …

Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore." "Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil — prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us — by that God we both adore — Tell this soul with sorrow …

The first seven stanzas establish the narrator’s melancholic, impressionable state of mind. Now, the narrator playfully asks the raven its name, as if to reassure himself that it portends nothing …

“The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe 1 Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, 2 Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore — 3 While I nodded, nearly …

3 days ago · 5. Stanza 7: How is the raven described in the 7 th stanza? Where does it go to perch? Pallas refers to Pallas Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom. Why do you suppose …

Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.” “Prophet!” said I, “thing of evil!—prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us—by that God we both adore—

“THE RAVEN” by Edgar Allan Poe (1845) Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly …

This passage is the opening stanzas of Edgar Allan Poe’s 1845 poem “The Raven." Perhaps his most famous work, "The Raven" is about grief, mystery, and lost love.

Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore." "Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!" I shrieked, upstarting-- "Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Pluto nian shore! Leave no black …

Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore." And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming of a …

Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.” “Prophet!” said I, “thing of evil!—prophet still, if bird or devil!— Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore, Desolate yet all …