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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... "
The Public School Speaker - Page 324
by Francis Warre Cornish - 1900 - 570 pages
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Folk Songs

John Williamson Palmer - 1861 - 540 pages
...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...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,...
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A book of English poetry; ed. by T. Shorter

Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 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 burn'd into my bosom's core ; This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining On the cushion's...
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The Fifth Reader of the School and Family Series

Marcius Willson - 1861 - 550 pages
...this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore • Meant in croaking "Nevermore." 1 3. This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing...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...
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The Children's Garland: From the Best Poets

Coventry Patmore - 1862 - 372 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...
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Choice Poems and Lyrics

Choice poems - 1862 - 368 pages
...this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore, Meant in croaking, " Nevermore." mi. 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, E But whose velvet violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o'er,...
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Select readings from the poets and prose writers of every country, ed. by J ...

James Fleming - 1863 - 404 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...
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The Sixth Reader: Consisting of Extracts in Prose and Verse, with ...

George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 530 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 relvet violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o'er,...
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The Sixth Reader: Consisting of Extracts in Prose and Verse, with ...

George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 528 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 —...but no syllable expressing To the fowl, whose fiery eyos now burned into my bosom's core ; This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining...
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Four American poems

Edgar Allan Poe, Carl Theodor Eben - 1864 - 62 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 lamplight gloated o'er, But whose velvet violet lining With the lamplight gloating o'er She...
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Golden Leaves from the American Poets

1864 - 428 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 —...expressing To the fowl, whose fiery eyes now burned into my bos^m' core; This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining On the cushion's velvet lining...
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