| James Trager - Reference - 2010 - 4679 pages
...appeared in the January 29 New-York Evening Mirror, where Poe is assistant editor (see 1844): ". . . And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming,/ And the lamplight o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;/ And my soul from out that shadow that... | |
| Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 376 pages
...sitter and the seat was in turn fastened by a paronomasia: 'bird or beast upon the ... 6ust.' The bird 'is sitting // On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door,' and the raven on his perch, despite the lover's imperative 'take thy form from off my door,' is nailed... | |
| John May - Fiction - 2004 - 344 pages
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| Edgar Allan Poe - Fiction - 2009 - 580 pages
...above my door! Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!" Quoth the Raven "Nevermore." And the Raven, never flitting, still...the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor; And my soul from out that shadow that... | |
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