 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...a minute stopped or stayed he; Hut, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber doorPerched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door — Perched, and sat, and nothing more. Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it... | |
 | Periodicals - 1845 - 732 pages
...of the saintly days of yore; Not the least obeisance made he ; not an instant stopped or stayed he ; down On the long night-time of that ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it... | |
 | Periodicals - 1845 - 688 pages
...of the saintly days of yore; Not the least obeisance made he ; not an instant stopped or stayed he ; But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber...— Perched, and sat, and nothing more. Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it... | |
 | American literature - 1847 - 434 pages
...the saintly days of yore ; Not the least obeisance made he ; not an instant stopped or stayed he ; But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber...— Perched, and sat, and nothing more. Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it... | |
 | Thomas Powell - American literature - 1850 - 382 pages
...Of the saintly days of yore; Not the least obeisance made he ; Not an instant stopped or stayed he ; But, With mien of lord or lady, Perched above my chamber...chamber door — Perched, and sat, and nothing more." The last stanza is very felicitous. How visibly the poet's intention to produce effect by the outer... | |
 | Thomas Powell - American literature - 1850 - 384 pages
...there stepped a stately raven Not the least obeisance made he ; Not an instant stopped or stayed he ; But, with mien of lord or lady, Perched above my chamber...chamber door — Perched, and sat, and nothing more." The last stanza is very felicitous. How visibly the poet's intention to produce effect by the outer... | |
 | Periodicals - 1850 - 766 pages
...minute stopped or stayed he ; But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber doorPerched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door— Perched, and sat, and nothing more. " Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it... | |
 | Periodicals - 1850 - 762 pages
...minute stopped or stayed he ; But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber doorPerched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door — Perched, and sat, and nothing more. " Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1852 - 308 pages
...Raven of the saintly days of yore. Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he; But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber...door— . . Perched and sat and nothing more. Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it... | |
 | 1852 - 620 pages
...of the saintly days of yore : Not the least obeisance made he ; not a minute stopped or stayed he ; But with mien of Lord or Lady, perched above my chamber...— Perched, and sat, and nothing more. " Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it... | |
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Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, — "Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou... 
