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Edgar Allan Poe. 1809 –. 1849. 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 visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door—
The narrator perceives the Raven as a wandering ancient creature. In Genesis 8:7, Noah sends a dove and a raven in opposite directions to test if the water had receded enough for his family and the animals to leave the ark. The dove remains famous for returning and signaling the end of the flood.
by Edgar Allan Poe(published 1845) 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 visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door-.
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Hear “The Raven” read aloud. The Raven. 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.
Oct 1, 1997 · 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.
Oct 6, 2012 · Release Date: November 30, 2005 [EBook #17192] [Last updated: October 6, 2012] Language: English. Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1. *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE RAVEN *** Produced by Jason Isbell, Melissa Er-Raqabi and the Online. Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. THE RAVEN. WITH COMMENT BY EDMUND C. STEDMAN.
