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 Literary Emporium - Page 3781847Full view - About this book
| Choice poems - 1862 - 368 pages
...and ominous bird of yore, Meant in croaking, " Nevermore." mi. This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl, whose fiery eyes...cushion's velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o'er, E But whose velvet violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o'er, She shall press, ah, nevermore... | |
| Coventry Patmore - Children's poetry - 1862 - 372 pages
...Nevermore.' This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burnt into my bosom's core ; This and more I sat divining,...cushion's velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o'er, But whose velvet violet lining, with the lamp-light gloating o'er, She shall press, ah, nevermore !... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1862 - 796 pages
...gaunt, and ominous bird of yore Meant in eroaking, "Never more." This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes...This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reelining On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o'er, But whoso velvet violet... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 pages
...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...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... | |
| James Fleming - 1863 - 404 pages
...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...cushion's velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o'er, But whose velvet violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o'er She shall press, ah, nevermore. Then,... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1863 - 528 pages
...Nevermore." This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl, whose fiery eyos now burned into my bosom's core ; This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining • Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer, Swung by Seraphim whose foot-falls... | |
| Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1863 - 614 pages
...expressing To the fowl, whose fiory eyes now burn'd into my bosom's core; This and more I sat divining, wife my head at ease reclining On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o'er, But whose velvet violet lining, with the lamp-light gloating oV She shall press — ah ! nevermore!... | |
| James Stuart Laurie - 1863 - 328 pages
...Thus 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 case reclining On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o'er, But whose velvet violet... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe, Carl Theodor Eben - American poetry - 1864 - 62 pages
...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...cushion's velvet lining That the lamplight gloated o'er, But whose velvet violet lining With the lamplight gloating o'er She shall press, ah, nevermore 1 £ro^... | |
| American poetry - 1864 - 428 pages
...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 burned into my bos^m' core; This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining On the cushion's velvet lining... | |
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