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" THE skies they were ashen and sober; The leaves they were crisped and sere, The leaves they were withering and sere; It was night in the lonesome October Of my most immemorial year ; It was hard by the dim lake of Auber, In the misty mid region of Weir:... "
The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe: Poems and tales - Page 20
by Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1853
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The American Whig Review, Volume 5; Volume 11

Periodicals - 1850 - 762 pages
...Lenore." The same repetition makes " Ululume" nearly twice as long as it would be without it :— " The skies they were ashen and sober; The leaves they...crisped and sere : The leaves they were withering and tere," We observe it also in "The Bells," "Annabel Lee," " Eulalie," and other pieces — indeed, indications...
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The American Whig Review, Volume 5; Volume 11

Periodicals - 1850 - 766 pages
...Lenore." The same repetition makes " Ululume" nearly twice as long as it would be without it :— " The skies they were ashen and sober ; The leaves they were crisped and sere : '/Vic leaves they were withering and ģere." We observe it also in " The Bells," "Annabel Lee," "...
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The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, Volume 28

United States - 1851 - 702 pages
...which contain the chief burden of the poem. Unwittingly you are repeating " The skies they were nshen and sober ; The leaves they were crisped and sere...; It was night in the lonesome October, Of my most immemurial year ; It was hni-d by the dim lake of Auber, In the misty mid region of Weir — It was...
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The United States Democratic Review, Volume 28

United States - 1851 - 608 pages
...ons of some of the lines which contain the chief burden of the poem. Unwittingly you are repeating " The skies they were ashen and sober ; The leaves they were crisped aod sere — The leaves they were withering and sere ; It was night in the lonesome October, Of my...
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Tales of Mystery, Imagination and Humour ...

Edgar Allan Poe - 1852 - 298 pages
...the bells, bells, bells, bellsBells, bells, bells— To the moaning and the groaning of the bells. THE skies they were ashen and sober ; The leaves they...ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir. Here once, through an alley Titanic, Of cypress, I roamed with my soul — Of cypress, with Pysche, my soul. These were days when...
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The Poets and Poetry of America: To the Middle of the Nineteenth Century

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1852 - 588 pages
...DLALUME : A BALLAD. THI ikies they were ashen and sober ; The leaves they were crwpi'd and Here — The leaves they were withering and sere ; It was night...ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir. Here once, through an alley Titanic, Of cypress, I roamed with my soul — Of cvprcss, with Psyche, my soul. Those were days when...
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The poetical works of Edgar Allan Poe with a notice by J. Hannay

Edgar Allan Poe - 1853 - 188 pages
...that name from I'oe — MAHIA CLEMM, his mother-in-law. See WILIJS'S " Hurry-Graphs." —ED. ULALUME. THE skies they were ashen and sober ; The leaves they...of Weir — It was down by the dank tarn of Auber, Tn the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir. n. Here once, through an alley Titanic, Of cypress, I roamed...
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The Dublin University Magazine, Volume 42

1853 - 774 pages
...the five years he spent in England, at Stoke Newington, wherever that famous locality may be : — " The skies they were ashen and sober, The leaves they...the misty mid region of Weir — It was down by the dark tarn of Auber, In the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir. • Here once through an alley Titanic,...
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Handbuch der nordamericanischen National-Literatur: Sammlung von ...

Ludwig Herrig - American literature - 1854 - 580 pages
...•— nevermore! ULALUME: A BALLAD. THE skies they were ashen and sober; The leaves they were crispcd and sere — The leaves they were withering and sere; It was night in the lonesome October Ot' my most immemorial year; It was hard by the dim lake of Anbei-, In ihe misty mid region of Weir...
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A Third Gallery of Portraits

George Gilfillan - Authors, English - 1855 - 480 pages
...find nowhere else in auch perfection. What a picture these words convey to the imagination : — " The skies they were ashen and sober; The leaves they...It was hard by the dim lake of Auber, In the misty mid-region of Weir — It was down by the dark tarn of Auber, In the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir."...
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