Respite respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore; Quaff, oh, quaff this kind nepenthe and forget this lost Lenore!" Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore.” Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil!- prophet still, if bird or devil! 85 Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore, Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted On this home by Horror haunted - tell me truly, I implore — ९९ 90 'Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil!—prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us - by that God we both adore Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, 96 "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! Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken! Leave my loneliness unbroken! quit the bust 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 is sitting, still is sitting 83 Quaff, oh: Let me (A. W. R., S. L. M. [1845], Tribune). ΙΟΙ And his eyes have all 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 lies floating on the floor Till the fair and gentle Eulalie became my blushing bride 5 ΙΟ Can vie with the modest Eulalie's most unregarded curl While ever to her dear Eulalie upturns her matron eye - (1845) 20 105 demon's: demon (all others except 1845, Sat. C., Graham's, S. L.M. [1848], and 1850). 11 moon-tints: morn-tints (A. W.R.). 17 And: While (A. W. R., B.J.). 20 While And (A. W. R., B.J.). 21 While And (A. W.R., B.J.). A VALENTINE For her these lines are penned, whose luminous eyes, Shall find her own sweet name that, nestling, lies Upon this page, enwrapped from every reader. Search narrowly this rhyme, which holds a treasure an amulet That must be worn at heart. Search well the measure; The words - the letters themselves. Do not forget The trivialest point, or you may lose your labor. And yet there is in this no Gordian knot If one could merely understand the plot. Of poets, by poets; as the name is a poet's, too. 5 ΙΟ 15 To Title To Her Whose Name is Written Below (E. M.), A Valentine. (U.M.). 1 these lines are: this rhyme is (U. M., 1850). 2 Brightly: Bright and (E.M.); twins: stars (E.M.). 4 this: the (U.M., 1850). 5 this rhyme, which holds: these words which hold (E. M.), the lines ! – they hold (U.M., 1850). 8 letters themselves: syllables (U.M., 1850). 9 trivialest: smallest (E. M.). 12 understand: comprehend (E. M., U.M., 1850). 13 Upon the open page on which are peering (E. M.); Enwritten upon the leaf where now are peering (U. M., 1850). 14 Such sweet eyes now, there lies, I say, perdu (E. M.); Eyes scintillating soul, there lie perdus (U. M., 1850). 15 A well-known name: A musical name (E.M.), Three eloquent words (U.M., 1850). 16 as for (E. M.). Its letters, although naturally lying — Like the knight Pinto (Mendez Ferdinando) Still form a synonym for truth. Cease trying! 19 You will not read the riddle though you do the best you can do. TO M. L. S Of all who hail thy presence as the morning Of all to whom thine absence is the night The blotting utterly from out high heaven At thy soft-murmured words, "Let there be light!" In the seraphic glancing of thine eyes- And think that these weak lines are written by him (1847) 17 In common sequence set, the letters lying (E. M.). Compose a sound delighting all to hear — (1846) 5 IO 15 ULALUMEA BALLAD The skies they were ashen and sober; The leaves they were crispéd and sere Of my most immemorial year: Here once, through an alley Titanic, Of cypress, I roamed with my Soul - As the lavas that restlessly roll Their sulphurous currents down Yaanek In the ultimate climes of the Pole That groan as they roll down Mount Yaanek Our talk had been serious and sober, But our thoughts they were palsied and sere For we knew not the month was October, 20 25 Title To lume (1850). 1 they: Omitted in P.J. Ulalume: A Ballad (A. W. R., P.P.A.), Ula 13 L. W. inserts the before "days." |