{"id":53,"date":"2012-11-21T15:49:04","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T15:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aig.alumni.virginia.edu\/raven\/?page_id=53"},"modified":"2017-08-08T18:40:40","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T18:40:40","slug":"the-raven","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aig.uvaalumni.org\/raven\/poe-resources\/the-raven\/","title":{"rendered":"“The Raven”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,<\/p>\n

Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore –<\/p>\n

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,<\/p>\n

As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.<\/p>\n

“‘Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door –<\/p>\n

Only this and nothing more.”<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,<\/p>\n

And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.<\/p>\n

Eagerly I wished the morrow; – vainly I had sought to borrow<\/p>\n

From my books surcease of sorrow – sorrow for the lost Lenore –<\/p>\n

For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore –<\/p>\n

Nameless here for evermore.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain<\/p>\n

Thrilled me – filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;<\/p>\n

So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating<\/p>\n

“‘Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door –<\/p>\n

Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door; –<\/p>\n

This it is and nothing more.”<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer,<\/p>\n

“Sir,” said I, “or Madam, truly yours forgiveness I implore;<\/p>\n

But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping,<\/p>\n

And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,<\/p>\n

That I scarce was sure I heard you” – here I opened wide the door; –<\/p>\n

Darkness there, and nothing more.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,<\/p>\n

Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before;<\/p>\n

But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token,<\/p>\n

And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, “Lenore?” –<\/p>\n

This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, “Lenore!”<\/p>\n

Merely this and nothing more.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Then into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning,<\/p>\n

Soon again I heard a tapping something louder than before.<\/p>\n

“Surely,” said I, “surely that is something at my window lattice;<\/p>\n

Let me see, then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore –<\/p>\n

Let my heart be still a moment, and this mystery explore; –<\/p>\n

‘Tis the wind and nothing more!”<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter,<\/p>\n

In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore;<\/p>\n

Not the least obeisance made he; not an instant stopped or stayed he;<\/p>\n

But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door –<\/p>\n

Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door –<\/p>\n

Perched, and sat, and nothing more.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,<\/p>\n

By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,<\/p>\n

“Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,” I said, “art sure no craven,<\/p>\n

Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore –<\/p>\n

Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore!”<\/p>\n

Quoth the Raven, “Nevermore.”<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly,<\/p>\n

Though its answer little meaning – little relevancy bore;<\/p>\n

For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being<\/p>\n

Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door –<\/p>\n

Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door,<\/p>\n

With such name as “Nevermore.”<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

But the Raven, sitting lonely on that placid bust, spoke only<\/p>\n

That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour.<\/p>\n

Nothing further then he uttered – not a feather then he fluttered –<\/p>\n

Till I scarcely more than muttered, “Other friends have flown before –<\/p>\n

On the morrow he will leave me, as my Hopes have flown before.”<\/p>\n

Then the bird said, “Nevermore.”<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken,<\/p>\n

“Doubtless,” said I, “what it utters is its only stock and store<\/p>\n

Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful Disaster<\/p>\n

Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore –<\/p>\n

Till the dirges of his Hope the melancholy burden bore<\/p>\n

Of ‘Never-nevermore.'”<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

But the Raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling,<\/p>\n

Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird and bust and door;<\/p>\n

Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking<\/p>\n

Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore –<\/p>\n

What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore<\/p>\n

Meant in croaking “Nevermore.”<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing<\/p>\n

To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom’s core;<\/p>\n

This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining<\/p>\n

On the cushion’s velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o’er,<\/p>\n

But whose velvet-violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o’er,<\/p>\n

She shall press, ah, nevermore!<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer<\/p>\n

Swung by seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor.<\/p>\n

“Wretch,” I cried, “thy God hath lent thee – by these angels he hath sent thee<\/p>\n

Respite – respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore;<\/p>\n

Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe and forget this lost Lenore!”<\/p>\n

Quoth the Raven, “Nevermore.”<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

“Prophet!” said I, “thing of evil! – prophet still, if bird or devil! –<\/p>\n

Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore,<\/p>\n

Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted –<\/p>\n

On this home by Horror haunted – tell me truly, I implore –<\/p>\n

Is there – is there balm in Gilead? tell me – tell me, I implore!”<\/p>\n

Quoth the Raven, “Nevermore.”<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

“Prophet!” said I, “thing of evil – prophet still, if bird or devil!<\/p>\n

By that Heaven that bends above us – by that God we both adore –<\/p>\n

Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn,<\/p>\n

It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore –<\/p>\n

Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore.”<\/p>\n

Quoth the Raven, “Nevermore.”<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

“Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!” I shrieked, upstarting –<\/p>\n

“Get thee back into the tempest and the Night’s Plutonian shore!<\/p>\n

Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken!<\/p>\n

Leave my loneliness unbroken! – quit the bust above my door!<\/p>\n

Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!”<\/p>\n

Quoth the Raven, “Nevermore.”<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting<\/p>\n

On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;<\/p>\n

And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming,<\/p>\n

And the lamp-light o’er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;<\/p>\n

And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor<\/p>\n

Shall be lifted – nevermore!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Edgar<\/p>\n

(First Published in 1845) <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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