...I so cruelly betrayed." Then be began softly and melodiously the well-known monody : — "One* apon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curions volume of forgotten lore. While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there rame a tapping. As...

...Dictionary, p;ige 1545. THE RAVEN. ED, R A. IV* I. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak ai-fl weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten...at my chamber-door— Only this, and nothing more." II. For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore— Nameless here forevermore. m. And...

...come when forests are rended ; Come as the waves come when navies are stranded." — Scott. " O'nee upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and...tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. ' 'Tis some visitor,' I muttered, ' tapping at my chamber door — Only this, and nothing...

...! 7. THE KAVEN. — Poe. Quality aspirated. — Pitch middle, inclining to low. — Force moderate. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak...lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there caine a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door; "'Tis some visitor," I...

...his study, dreaming and despairing, he wrote thus : — Once upon a midnight dreary, while I ponderd, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume...nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As if some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door— '"Tie some visitor," I muttered, "rapping...

...quite numerous. His poems are few, but some of them evince high poetic talent. He died in 1849. 1. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak...+quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While 1 nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at...

...understood to have been penned by her during this period of depression:— WIDOW FBEEKIRK'S SOJTO. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over a little drop of something—something from a neighbouring store— Nameless here for evermore ; Thinking...

...! 7. THE RAVEN. — Poe. Quality aspirated. — Pitch middle, inclining to low. — Force moderate. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak...tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door; " 'T is some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door; Only this and nothing...

...bells, bells ; Bells, bells, bells — To the moaning and the groaning of the bells ! CLXI. THE RAVEN. upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and...tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. " 'T is some visitor," I muttered, " tapping at my chamber door — Only this, and nothing...

...therefore, somehow at the center of this psalm. And should a Bible reader at some midnight dreary, pondering "weak and weary, over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore . . ."— should some such Bible reader ask whether the Lord might forget to feed those tiny birds,...