 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 Southern literary messenger - Page 1871845Full view - About this book
 | Milton Meltzer - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2003 - 156 pages
...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 so when Hope he would adjure — Stern Despair returned, instead of the sweet Hope he dared adjureThat... | |
 | Keith Cartwright - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 282 pages
...send "back into the tempest." The ravens one repeated word appears at first to be slavish parrotry, "Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful disaster...and followed faster till his songs one burden bore" (944). But for Poe, inhabiting a South haunted by the shadow of Haiti, Nat Turner, and sectional conflict,... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - Fiction - 2009 - 580 pages
...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 raster till his songs one burden bore — Till the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore Of... | |
 | William Roetzheim - Poetry - 2006 - 760 pages
...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...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... | |
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