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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... "
The Lawrence Reader and Speaker: A Compilation of Masterpieces in Poetry and ... - Page 343
by Edwin Gordon Lawrence - 1911 - 351 pages
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The Irish Quarterly Review, Volume 5

1855 - 1416 pages
...ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore, Meant in croaking ' Xevcr moie.' 89 THE IRISH QUARTERLY REVIEW. To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned Into my bosom's core; Tliis and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining On the cushion's velvet lining, that...
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Cyclopaedia of American Literature: Embracing Personal and ..., Volume 2, Part 2

Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1855 - 474 pages
...in croaking " Nevermore." This I »it engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl i bosom's core ; This and more I sat divining, with my head at en*e reclining On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamplight gloated o'er, But »luxe velvet violet...
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Hand-book of American literature, historical, biographical, and critical [by ...

Joseph Gostwick - 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,...
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Southern Literary Messenger, Volume 25

1857 - 528 pages
...entrance, and plunges into troubled speculation. " This and more I sat divining, with mr head at case reclining On the cushion's velvet lining, that the...gloated o'er, — But whose velvet violet lining, lri/A the lamplight gloating o'er — She shall prese — ah ! nevermore!" It is to be traced also...
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McGuffey's New Sixth Eclectic Reader: Exercises in Rhetorical Reading, with ...

William Holmes McGuffey - 1857 - 456 pages
...tghastly, +gaunt, and ominous bird of yore Meant, in croaking " Nevermore." 13. Thus I sat engag'd in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burn'd into my bosom's '''core, This and more 1 sat divining, with my head at ease reclining, On the...
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A Compendium of American Literature

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 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...
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The Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe: With Original Memoir

Edgar Allan Poe - 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...
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Osgood's Progressive Fifth Reader: Embracing a System of Instruction in the ...

Lucius Osgood - 1858 - 494 pages
...grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore — Meant in croaking "Nevermore." 13. 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, with my head at ease reclining On the cushion's...
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ADVENTURES AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF AMERICANS;

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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A Compendium of American Literature: Chronologically Arranged, with ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 812 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...core ; This and more I sat divining, with my head at case reclining On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o'er, But whose velvet violet...
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