Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,— " Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, " art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly... The first (-sixth) 'Standard' reader - Page 265by James Stuart Laurie - 1863Full view - About this book
| Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, Thomas Travisano - Literary Collections - 2003 - 770 pages
...— Perched upon a bust of Pallas1 just above my chamber door — Perched, and sat, and nothing more. Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,...— Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian2 shore!" Quoth the raven "Nevermore." Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse... | |
| Axel W.-O. Schmidt - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 610 pages
...nothing more. (8) Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, But the grave and stem decorum of the countenance it wore, „Though thy...name is on the Night's Plutonian shore"! Quoth the Raven, „Nevermore". (9) Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly, Though... | |
| Steven Gould Axelrod, Camille Roman, Thomas Travisano - Literary Collections - 2003 - 770 pages
...door— Perched upon a bust of Pallas' just above my chamber doorPerched, and sat, and nothing more. Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,...shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven, i. Pallas Athena, Greek goddess of wisdom. Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the Nightly... | |
| Milton Meltzer - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2003 - 156 pages
...door — Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber doorPerched, and sat, and nothing more. Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,..."Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "are sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the Nightly shore — Tell me what... | |
| Boria Sax - Art - 2003 - 188 pages
...most readers, the meaning seems almost irrelevant. The speaker is visited by a raven late at night: Then this ebony bird beguiling My sad fancy into smiling,...countenance it wore, Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, 'Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door . . .', illustrations by Gustave Dore to... | |
| Karl Shuker - Science - 2014 - 325 pages
...tends to disappear. It is only mystery which keeps things alive. CHAPTER 3 Raven and the Terror Bird! Ghastly, grim, and ancient Raven, wandering from the...thy lordly name is on the night's Plutonian shore? EDGAR ALLAN FOE—THE RAVEN A MAJOR FIGURE IN AMERINDIAN MYTHOLOGY ACROSS much of North America is... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - Fiction - 2009 - 580 pages
...— Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door — Perched, and sat, and nothing more. Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, By the grave and stem decorum of the countenance it wore, "TTiough thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art... | |
| Hal Hart - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 358 pages
...it." Miles handed him the story containing the following passage from Edgar Allan Poe's, The Raven: "Though thy crest be shorn and shaven thou," I said,...name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!" Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore." The story then attributed the following to the Quoth the Ravens: "Who is this ghastly... | |
| Rich Mintzer - Education - 2005 - 56 pages
...creature the poet and inventor of the detective story Edgar Alla'n foe is referring to this poem: in Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,...grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore." Interpreting from the underlined descriptions, you might guess that the bird Poe is describing is a... | |
| Jerome McGann - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 252 pages
...unapparencies. Perhaps no passage in the poem makes a more startling display of that view than the following: Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,...name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!" Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore." pursuing" (Prometheus Unbound 1.1.103-4). Knowing this rule, as Poe's readers did,... | |
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