 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1852 - 588 pages
...this grim, ungainly, ghastly, Gaunt and ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking " Nevermore.*' Thin I sat engaged in guessing, But no syllable expressing To the fowl whose tiery eyes now Burn'd into my bosom's core; This and more I sat divining, With my head at ease reclining... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1853 - 188 pages
...this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore, Meant in croaking, " Nevermore." XIII. This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing...lamp-light gloating o'er, She shall press, ah, nevermore ! XIV. Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer Swung by Seraphim whose... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 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 To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burn 'd into my bosom's core; This, and more, I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining On the... | |
 | 1854 - 80 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...reclining On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamp Hght gloated o'er, But whose velvet violet lining, with the lamplight gloating o'er, She shall... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1854 - 608 pages
...nor make him forgetful of the cushion which she had once pressed, but would press again nevermore ! This I sat engaged in guessing, But no syllable expressing...bosom's core: This and more I sat divining, With my hend at ea'e reclining On the cushion's ttliel lining. That the lamp-light glorílcd oVr, tint whose... | |
 | 1854 - 380 pages
...yore— 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 To the fowl whose fiery eyes now Bnrn'd into my bosom's core ; This and more I sat divining, With my head at ease reclining On the cushion'd... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1854 - 580 pages
...grim, ungainly, ghastly, Gaunt and ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking „Nevermore." This I sät 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 sät divining, With my head at ease reclining On the cushion's... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1855 - 690 pages
...To the fowl whose fiery eyes now Burn'd into my bosom's core ; This and more I sat divining, \Vith my head at ease reclining On the cushion's velvet...lamplight gloated o'er; But whose velvet violet lining \Vith the lamplight gloating oVr, She shall press, ah, never more ! Thrn. methought, the air grew denser,... | |
 | Richard Wright Procter - 1855 - 490 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 To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burn'd into my bosom's core; This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining, On the cushion's... | |
 | 1855 - 1428 pages
...gaunt, and ominous bird of yore, Meant in croaking ' Never moie.' This I sat engaged In guessing, bat no syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned Into my bosom's corf; This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining On the cushion's velvet lining,... | |
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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 lamplight gloated o'er, But... 
