 | Edgar Allan Poe - Fiction - 1995 - 60 pages
...velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancv unto fancv, thinking what this ominous bird of vore— What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous...reclining On the 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... | |
 | Jay Parini - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 788 pages
...front of bird, and bust and door; Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore-—...eyes now burned into my bosom's core; This and more 1 sat divining, with my head at ease reclining On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated... | |
 | Jonathan Elmer - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 284 pages
...as the next stanza indicates: Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore —...ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking "Nevermore." The final absorption in the project of understanding is emphasized here by the enjambment on the word... | |
 | Fredric Lown, Judith W. Steinbergh - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1996 - 194 pages
...front of bird and bust and door; Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore, What...reclining On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamplight gloated o'er, But whose velvet violet lining with the lamplight gloating o'er She shall press,... | |
 | Various - Poetry - 1996 - 496 pages
...Of 'Never — nevermore.' '' Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking 70 Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore, What...whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core; 75 This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining On the cushion's velvet lining that... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - Reference - 2000 - 662 pages
...front of bird, and bust and door; Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore —...reclining On the 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... | |
 | Robert X. Leeds - American poetry - 1999 - 366 pages
...door; Then upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy unto fancy, thinking what his ominous bird of yore — What this grim, ungainly,...reclining On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamplight gloated o'er, But whose velvet violet lining with the lamplight gloating o'er, She shall... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - Poetry - 2000 - 678 pages
...of bird, and bust and door; Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking 70 Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore —...whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core; 75 This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining On the cushion's velvet lining that... | |
 | Ḥayim Gordon - Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976 - 2000 - 146 pages
...front of bird and bust and door; Then upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore What...ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking "Nevermore." In a mood of anxiety a person may sink into a linking of fancy unto fancy, thinking ominous depressing... | |
 | Thomas Streissguth - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2001 - 116 pages
...speak only one word: "Nevermore!" Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore —...ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking "Nevermore." The air in the room grows thick. The narrator screams angrily at the bird and demands to know what... | |
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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 lamp-light gloated o'er, But... 
