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+The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Raven, by Edgar Allan Poe
+
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+Title: The Raven
+
+Author: Edgar Allan Poe
+
+Release Date: October 1, 1997 [eBook #1065]
+[Most recently updated: October 2, 2021]
+
+Language: English
+
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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE RAVEN ***
+
+
+
+
+The Raven
+
+
+by
+
+Edgar Allan Poe
+
+
+ Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
+ Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—
+ While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
+ As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
+ “’Tis some visiter,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door—
+ Only this and nothing more.”
+
+ Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,
+ And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
+ Eagerly I wished the morrow;—vainly I had sought to borrow
+ From my books surcease of sorrow—sorrow for the lost Lenore—
+ For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore—
+ Nameless here for evermore.
+
+ And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain
+ Thrilled me—filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;
+ So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating
+ “’Tis some visiter entreating entrance at my chamber door—
+ Some late visiter entreating entrance at my chamber door;
+ This it is and nothing more.”
+
+ Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer,
+ “Sir,” said I, “or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore;
+ But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping,
+ And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,
+ That I scarce was sure I heard you”—here I opened wide the door—
+ Darkness there and nothing more.
+
+ Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,
+ Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before;
+ But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token,
+ And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, “Lenore?”
+ This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, “Lenore!”—
+ Merely this and nothing more.
+
+ Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning,
+ Soon again I heard a tapping something louder than before.
+ “Surely,” said I, “surely that is something at my window lattice;
+ Let me see, then, what thereat is and this mystery explore—
+ Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore;—
+ ’Tis the wind and nothing more.”
+
+ Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter,
+ In there stepped a stately 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 upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door—
+ Perched, and sat, and nothing more.
+
+ Then the 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,” I said, “art sure no craven,
+ Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore—
+ Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore!”
+ Quoth the Raven, “Nevermore.”
+
+ Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly,
+ Though its answer little meaning—little relevancy bore;
+ For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being
+ Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door—
+ Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door,
+ With such name as “Nevermore.”
+
+ But the Raven, sitting lonely on that placid bust, spoke only
+ That one word, as if its soul in that one word he did outpour
+ Nothing farther then he uttered; not a feather then he fluttered—
+ Till I scarcely more than muttered: “Other friends have flown before—
+ On the morrow _he_ will leave me, as my Hopes have flown before.”
+ Then the bird said “Nevermore.”
+
+ Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken,
+ “Doubtless,” said I, “what it utters is its only stock and store,
+ Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful Disaster
+ Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore—
+ Till the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore
+ Of ‘Never—nevermore.’”
+
+ But the Raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling,
+ Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in 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—
+ What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore
+ Meant in croaking “Nevermore.”
+
+ 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 whose velvet violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o’er
+ _She_ shall press, ah, nevermore!
+
+ Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer
+ Swung by Seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor.
+ “Wretch,” I cried, “thy God hath lent thee—by these angels he hath sent thee
+ 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!—
+ 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—
+ Is there—_is_ there balm in Gilead?—tell me—tell me, I implore!”
+ Quoth the Raven, “Nevermore.”
+
+ “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,
+ It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore—
+ Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore.”
+ Quoth the Raven, “Nevermore.”
+
+ “Be that 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 has 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
+ On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
+ And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming
+ And the lamp-light o’er him streaming throws his shadows on the floor;
+ And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
+ Shall be lifted—nevermore!
+
+
+
+
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