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| Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...— Is there — in there balm in Gilead ? — tell me — tell me, I implore!" Quoth the Raven, " Nevermore." " Prophet!" said I, " thing of evil —...devil! By that Heaven that bends above us — by that (lod we both adore — Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp... | |
| Henry Allon - Christianity - 1886 - 618 pages
...self-contempt, its semi-consciousness of wilful delusion, culminates in the author's favourite stanza — ' Prophet ! ' said I, ' thing of evil ! prophet still, if bird or devil ! By that Heaven that l>ends above us, by that God we both adore, Tell this soul with sorrow laden, if within the distant... | |
| United States - 1851 - 608 pages
...passages of fine natural passion and expression : for instance, — " Prophet." snid I, " thing of evil — prophet still, if bird or devil ! By that Heaven that bends abovo us, by that God we both adore, Tell this soul with sorrow laden, if, within the distant Aidenn,... | |
| 1852 - 620 pages
...implore, — Is there, is there balm in Gilead ? tell me, tell me, I implore !' Quoth the Raven, ' Nevermore !' " ' Prophet,' said I, ' thing of evil,...Aidenn It shall clasp a sainted maiden, whom the angels call Lenore — Clasp a rare and radiant maiden, whom the angels call Lenore.' Quoth the Raven, ' Nevermore... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1852 - 380 pages
...there balm in Gilead ? — tell me — tell me, I implore ! " Quoth the Eaven, " Nevermore." 15. " Prophet ! " said I, " thing of evil ! — prophet...Aidenn It shall clasp a sainted maiden, whom the angels call Lenore — Clasp a rare and radiant maiden, whom the angels name Lenore ! " Quoth the Raven, "... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1852 - 610 pages
...? tell me, tell me, 1 implore !' C¿uoth the Raven, ' Nevermore !' " ' Prophet,' said [,' thing of evil, prophet still, if bird or devil ! By that heaven...Aidenn It shall clasp a sainted maiden, whom the angels call Lenore — Clasp a rare and radiant maiden, whom the angels call Lcnore.' Quoth the Raven, ' Nevermore... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1852 - 588 pages
...implore — Is there — is there balm in Gilead 1 Tell me — tell me, I implore !" Quoth the raven " Nevermore." •' Prophet !'' said I, « thing of evil...above us— By that God we both adore — Tell this sou] with sorrow laden If, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden Whom the angels... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Parker Willis - American literature - 1853 - 522 pages
...first put pen. to -papfliJGL&a. _ ,. composition of the stanza : " Prophet," said I, " thing of evil 1 prophet still if bird or devil ! By that heaven that...laden, if within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a fainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore — Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name... | |
| American periodicals - 1853 - 848 pages
...dirges of his hope that melancholy burden bore. Of — Never, never more." "Prophet," said I, "king of evil — prophet still, if bird or devil ! By that...this soul, with sorrow laden, if within the distant Aiden, It shall clasp a sainted maiden, whom the angels name Lenore — Clasp a rare and radiant maiden,... | |
| 1854 - 80 pages
...benn in ©iíeab ©aíbe ? fage mtr'é, t^ bitt' 2Мф fe^r." j't ber 9îabe — " ííimmerme^r." " Prophet," said I, " thing of evil— prophet still,...this soul, with sorrow laden, if within the distant Aidea It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore — Clasp a rare and radiant maiden... | |
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