 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
 | 1875 - 324 pages
...What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking "Nevermore." xm. 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... | |
 | 1876 - 508 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,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 576 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 lamplight gloated o'er, But whose velvet violet lining, with the lamplight gloating o'er,... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1876 - 522 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 —...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... | |
 | Alfred Macleod - 1877 - 238 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,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 630 pages
...fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore — What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and j ominous bird of yore, — Meant in croaking " Nevermore...head at ease reclining On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamplight gloated o'er, But whose velvet violet lining, with thn lamplight gloating o'er,... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1878 - 450 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 lamplight gloated o'er, But whose velvet violet lining With the lamplight gloating o'er She... | |
 | Joseph Ross - 1873 - 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, —...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,... | |
 | American poems - 1878 - 536 pages
...betook myself to linking Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore — What this grirn, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and 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... | |
 | John Andrew Jennings - 1878 - 488 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...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... | |
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