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| Gustave Doré
Illustrations for Poe's The Raven
Selected Works
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| Nevermore |
| ANATKH |
| Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, |
| And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. |
| Eagerly I wished the morrow; |
| Sorrow for the lost Lenore. |
| For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore— |
| 'T is some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door— |
| —Here I opened wide the door;—Darkness there, and nothing more. |
| Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. |
| 'Surely,' said I, 'surely that is something at my window lattice; |
| Open here I flung the shutter. |
| —A stately Raven of the saintly days of yore. |
| Perched, and sat, and nothing more. |
| Wandering from the Nightly shore. |
| On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.' |
| Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy unto fancy. |
| But whose velvet violet lining with the lamplight gloating o'er She shall press, ah, nevermore! |
| Respite—respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore!' |
| On this home by Horror haunted. |
| Is there—is there balm in Gilead? |
| 'Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, |
| 'Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!' I shrieked, upstarting. |
| 'Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore!' |
| And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted—nevermore! |
| The secret of the Sphinx. |
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