 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...  The Public School Speaker - Page 324by Francis Warre Cornish - 1900 - 570 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1854 - 80 pages
...front of bird and bust and door ; Then upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy upon fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore, What...head at ease reclining On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamp Hght gloated o'er, But whose velvet violet lining, with the lamplight gloating o'er,... | |
 | 1854 - 380 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—...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 ease reclining On the cushion'd... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1855 - 530 pages
...this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking " Nevermore." Thus.I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing...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 o'er,... | |
 | Joseph Gostwick - 1856 - 338 pages
...What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking " Never more." This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing...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 o'er... | |
 | Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 pages
...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 —...head at ease reclining On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o'er, But whose velvet violet lining with the lamplight gloating o'er She... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1858 - 642 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 —...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 o'er... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1858 - 332 pages
...What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking " Nevermore.'7 This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing...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 o'er... | |
 | HENRY HOWE - 1859 - 748 pages
..." Nevermore." Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird, and bust, and .door; This I Hat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To...head at ease 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... | |
 | William Allingham - 1860 - 316 pages
...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 —...syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burnt into my bosom's core ; This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining On the cushion's... | |
 | England - 1860 - 532 pages
...this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking " Nevermore." XIII. This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing...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 o'er,... | |
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