 | Joseph Gostwick - American literature - 1856 - 338 pages
...What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking " Never more." This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing...the lamp-light gloating o'er She shall press, ah, never more ! Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer Swung by seraphim,... | |
 | Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 pages
...What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore, Meant in croaking " Nevermore." This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing...lamplight gloating o'er She shall press, ah, nevermore ! Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer Swung by Seraphim whose foot-falls... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1857 - 456 pages
...divining, with my head at ease reclining, On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamplight tgloated o'er, But whose velvet violet lining, with the lamplight...Nevermore ! 14. Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfum'd from an unseen censer, [floor; "Wretch," I cried, "thy God hath lent thee, by these angels... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - American poetry - 1858 - 332 pages
...What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking " Nevermore.'7 This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing...lamp-light gloating o'er She shall press, ah, nevermore ! Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer Swung by Seraphim whose foot-falls... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - American poetry - 1858 - 642 pages
...What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking " Nevermore." This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing...lamp-light gloating o'er She shall press, ah, nevermore ! Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer Swung by Seraphim whose foot-falls... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - American poetry - 1858 - 644 pages
...ominous bird of yore Meant in* croaking " Nevermore." This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllabic expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned...lamp-light gloating o'er She shall press, ah, nevermore ! Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer Swung by Seraphim whose foot-falls... | |
 | Lucius Osgood - Elocution - 1858 - 494 pages
...Thus I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl, whose fiery eyes now burn'd into my bosom's core ; This and more I sat divining,...lamplight gloated o'er, But whose velvet violet lining that tl e lamplight gloated o'er She shall press, ah, nevermore! 14. Then methought the air grew denser,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1858 - 752 pages
...gaunt, and ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking " Never more." This I sat engaged in gnessing, bnt no syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes...This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease rcclining On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o'er, Bnt whose velvet violet... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - American poetry - 1858 - 388 pages
...What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore Meant in eroaking " Nevermore." This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing...the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's eore ; This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reelining On the eushion's velvet lining... | |
 | HENRY HOWE - 1859 - 748 pages
..." Nevermore." Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird, and bust, and .door; This I Hat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To...lamplight gloating o'er, SHE shall press, ah, nevermore 1 Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer Swung by angels whose faint... | |
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This I sat engaged in guessing, but no 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 velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o'er, But... 
