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The Raven | Poems from Edgar Allan Poe · Ririro.com - Poetry

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  Speaker 1: Once upon a midnight, dreary, while I pondered, weak and
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  Speaker 1: weary over many acquaint and curious volume of forgotten lore.
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  Speaker 1: While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
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  Speaker 1: as of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
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  Speaker 1: Tis some visitor, I muttered, tapping at my chamber door.
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  Speaker 1: Only this and nothing more, Ah, distinctly I remember. It
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  Speaker 1: was in the bleak December, and each separate dying ember
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  Speaker 1: wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow.
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  Speaker 1: Vainly I had sought to borrow from my books surcease
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  Speaker 1: of sorrow, sorrow for the lost Lenore, for the rare
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  Speaker 1: and radiant maiden, whom the angels name Lenore, nameless here
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  Speaker 1: for evermore. And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each
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  Speaker 1: purple curtain thrilled me, filled me with fantastic terrors never
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  Speaker 1: felt before. So that now to still the beating of
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  Speaker 1: my heart, I stood repeating, tis some visitor in treating
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  Speaker 1: entrance at my chamber door, some late visitor, and treating
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  Speaker 1: entrance at my chamber door. This it is, and nothing more.
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  Speaker 1: Presently my soul grew stronger hesitating. Then no longer, sir,
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  Speaker 1: said I, or madam, truly your forgiveness, I implore. But
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  Speaker 1: the fact is I was napping, and so gently you
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  Speaker 1: came rapping, so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my
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  Speaker 1: chamber door that I scarce was sure I heard you here.
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  Speaker 1: I opened wide the door. Darkness there and nothing more.
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  Speaker 1: Deep into that darkness, peering long, I stood there, wandering, fearing, doubting,
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  Speaker 1: dreaming dreams no mortal ever dare to dream before. But
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  Speaker 1: the silence was unbroken, and the darkness gave no token.
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  Speaker 1: And the only word there spoken was the whispered word genor.
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  Speaker 1: This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word lenor,
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  Speaker 1: merely this and nothing more back into the chamber, turning
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  Speaker 1: all my soul within me burning. Soon I heard again
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  Speaker 1: a tapping, somewhat louder than before. Surely, said I surely
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  Speaker 1: that is something at my window, lattice. Let me see
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  Speaker 1: then what thereat is, and this mystery explore, Let my
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  Speaker 1: heart be still a moment, And this mystery explore tis
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  Speaker 1: the wind nothing more open here. I flung the shutter,
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  Speaker 1: when with many a flirt and flutter in there stept
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  Speaker 1: a stately raven of the saintly days of yore. Not
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  Speaker 1: the least obeisance made he not an instant stopp'd or
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  Speaker 1: stayed He, but with mien of Lord old Lady, perched
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  Speaker 1: above my chamber door, perched upon a bust of palace
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  Speaker 1: just above my chamber door, perched and sat, and nothing
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  Speaker 1: more then this ebony bird, beguiding my sad fancy into
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  Speaker 1: smiling by the grave and stern decorum of the countenance
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  Speaker 1: it wore, though thy crest be shorn and shaven. Thou,
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  Speaker 1: I said, art sure, no craven, ghastly, grim and ancient
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  Speaker 1: raven wandering from the knightly shore, Tell me what thy
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  Speaker 1: lordly name is on the knight's bluteau shore. Quoth the
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  Speaker 1: raven never more much? I marveled this ungainly fowl to
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  Speaker 1: hear discourse so plainly, though its answer little meaning, little
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  Speaker 1: relevancy bore. For we cannot help agreeing that no living
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  Speaker 1: human being ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above
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  Speaker 1: his chamber door, bird or beast upon the sculptured bust
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  Speaker 1: above his chamber door, with such name as never more
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  Speaker 1: but the raven sitting lonely on the placid bust spoke
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  Speaker 1: only that one word, as if his soul in that
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  Speaker 1: one word he did out pour nothing farther than he uttered,
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  Speaker 1: not a feather. Then he fluttered till I scarcely more
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  Speaker 1: than muttered other friends have flown before. On the morrow
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  Speaker 1: he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.
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  Speaker 1: Then the bird said, nevermore. Startled at the stillness, broken
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  Speaker 1: by reply so aptly spoken, doubtless, said I what it
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  Speaker 1: utters is its only stock and store, caught from some
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  Speaker 1: unhappy master, whom unmerciful disaster followed fast, and followed faster
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  Speaker 1: to his songs. One burden bore till the dirges of
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  Speaker 1: his hope, that melancholy burden bore of never nevermore. But
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  Speaker 1: the raven still beguarding all my sad soul into smiling straight,
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  Speaker 1: I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird and
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  Speaker 1: bust and door. Then upon the velvet sinking, I betook
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  Speaker 1: myself to linking fancy, unto fancy, thinking what this ominous
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  Speaker 1: bird of your But this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt and
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  Speaker 1: ominous bird of your, means in croaking nevermore? This I
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  Speaker 1: sat engaged in guessing, But no syllable expressing to the
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  Speaker 1: fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core.
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  Speaker 1: This and more I sat, divining, with my head at ease,
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  Speaker 1: reclining on the cushion's velvet lining, that the lamp light gloated,
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  Speaker 1: Or but whose velvet violet lining with the lamp light gloating,
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  Speaker 1: Or she shall oppress ah nevermore, then methought the air
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  Speaker 1: grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer, swung by angels
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  Speaker 1: whose faint footfalls tinkled on the tufted floor. Wretch, I cried,
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  Speaker 1: Thy God, hath lent thee by these angels. He has
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  Speaker 1: sent thee respite, respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore. Quaff, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: quaff this kind napenthe, and forget at this lost lenore
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  Speaker 1: quoth the raven never more, Prophet said I thing of evil. Prophet, Still,
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  Speaker 1: if bird or devil, whether tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed,
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  Speaker 1: thee here ashore, desolate, yet all undaunted on this desert land,
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  Speaker 1: enchanted on this home by horror, haunted, tell me, truly,
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  Speaker 1: I implore, is there is there balm in Gilead? Tell me,
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  Speaker 1: tell me I implore, quoth the raven nevermore, Prophet said
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  Speaker 1: I thing of evil. Prophet. Still, if bird or devil,
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  Speaker 1: by that heaven that bends above us, by that God,
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  Speaker 1: we both adore, tell this soul with sorrow landen, if
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  Speaker 1: within the distant aiden it shall clasp a sainted maiden
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  Speaker 1: whom the angels name len all clasp a rare and
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  Speaker 1: radiant maiden whom the angel's name le an oor, quoth
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  Speaker 1: the raven nevermore, be that word our sign of parting,
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  Speaker 1: bird or fiend, I shrieked upstarting get thee back into
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  Speaker 1: the tempest, and the knight's plutonium shore, leave no black
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  Speaker 1: plume as a token of that lie. Thy soul hath spoken,
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  Speaker 1: Leave my loneliness unbroken. Quit the bust above the door,
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  Speaker 1: Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy
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  Speaker 1: form from off my door, quoth the raven nevermore, And
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  Speaker 1: the raven never flitting still, is sitting still, is sitting
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  Speaker 1: on the pallid bus the palace just above my chamber door,
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  Speaker 1: and his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's
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  Speaker 1: that is dreaming, And the lamp light o'er him streaming
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  Speaker 1: throws his shadow on the floor, and my soul. From
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  Speaker 1: out that shadow that lies floating on the floor shall
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  Speaker 1: be lifted never more