Edgar+Allan+Poe

Sarah Mazer



 Edgar Allan Poe was born January 19, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts. He was a poet, however he also wrote novels, short stories, textbooks, essays, and book reviews. His mother died when he was two, shortly after his father abandoned his family. He was taken in my a wealthy family. After college, Poe had very little money, and joined the army. He later became well known for his style of literary criticism. His most popular works include //The Raven, Spirits of the Dead, Alone,// and //A Dream within a Dream.// He was the first well known American writer to earn a living only through writing. He is considered to be the inventor of the detective fiction genre, and greatly contributed to the science fiction genre, which was still emerging at the time. The Baltimore Raven’s used Poe’s //The Raven//as inspiration for their team name.

For Annie-

Thank Heaven! the crisis-  The danger is past,  And the lingering illness  Is over at last-  And the fever called "Living"  Is conquered at last.

 Sadly, I know  I am shorn of my strength,  And no muscle I move  As I lie at full length-  But no matter!-I feel  I am better at length.

 And I rest so composedly,  Now, in my bed <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> That any beholder <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Might fancy me dead- <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Might start at beholding me, <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Thinking me dead.

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> The moaning and groaning, <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> The sighing and sobbing, <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Are quieted now, <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> With that horrible throbbing <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> At heart:- ah, that horrible, <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Horrible throbbing!

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> The sickness- the nausea- <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> The pitiless pain- <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Have ceased, with the fever <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> That maddened my brain- <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> With the fever called "Living" <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> That burned in my brain.

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> And oh! of all tortures <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> That torture the worst <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Has abated- the terrible <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Torture of thirst <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> For the naphthaline river <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Of Passion accurst:- <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> I have drunk of a water <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> That quenches all thirst:-

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Of a water that flows, <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> With a lullaby sound, <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> From a spring but a very few <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Feet under ground- <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> From a cavern not very far <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Down under ground.

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> And ah! let it never <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Be foolishly said <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> That my room it is gloomy <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> And narrow my bed; <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> For man never slept <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> In a different bed- <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> And, to sleep, you must slumber <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> In just such a bed.

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> My tantalized spirit <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Here blandly reposes, <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Forgetting, or never <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Regretting its roses- <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Its old agitations <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Of myrtles and roses:

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> For now, while so quietly <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Lying, it fancies <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> A holier odor <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> About it, of pansies- <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> A rosemary odor, <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Commingled with pansies- <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> With rue and the beautiful <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Puritan pansies.

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> And so it lies happily, <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Bathing in many <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> A dream of the truth <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> And the beauty of Annie- <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Drowned in a bath <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Of the tresses of Annie.

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> She tenderly kissed me, <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> She fondly caressed, <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> And then I fell gently <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> To sleep on her breast- <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Deeply to sleep <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> From the heaven of her breast.

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> When the light was extinguished, <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> She covered me warm, <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> And she prayed to the angels <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> To keep me from harm- <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> To the queen of the angels <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> To shield me from harm.

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> And I lie so composedly, <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Now, in my bed, <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> (Knowing her love) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> That you fancy me dead- <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> And I rest so contentedly, <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Now, in my bed, <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> (With her love at my breast) <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> That you fancy me dead- <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> That you shudder to look at me, <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Thinking me dead.

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> But my heart it is brighter <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Than all of the many <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Stars in the sky, <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> For it sparkles with Annie- <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> It glows with the light <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Of the love of my Annie- <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> With the thought of the light <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 11.75pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Of the eyes of my Annie.

The Raven- <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door- <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Only this, and nothing more."

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Eagerly I wished the morrow;- vainly I had sought to borrow <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> From my books surcease of sorrow- sorrow for the lost Lenore- <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore- <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Nameless here for evermore.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Thrilled me- filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before; <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> "'Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door- <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door;- <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> This it is, and nothing more."

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> "Sir," said I, "or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore; <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> That I scarce was sure I heard you"- here I opened wide the door;- <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Darkness there, and nothing more.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> fearing, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before; <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, "Lenore!" <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, "Lenore!"- <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Merely this, and nothing more.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Soon again I heard a tapping somewhat louder than before. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> "Surely," said I, "surely that is something at my window lattice: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Let me see, then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore- <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore;- <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> 'Tis the wind and nothing more."

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> flutter, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> In there stepped a stately raven of the saintly days of yore; <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> he; <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door- <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door- <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Perched, and sat, and nothing more.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> "Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> craven, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the Nightly shore- <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!" <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Though its answer little meaning- little relevancy bore; <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Ever yet was blest with seeing bird above his chamber door- <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> With such name as "Nevermore."

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> But the raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Nothing further then he uttered- not a feather then he fluttered- <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Till I scarcely more than muttered, "other friends have flown <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> before- <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before." <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Then the bird said, "Nevermore."

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> "Doubtless," said I, "what it utters is its only stock and store, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful Disaster <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore- <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Till the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Of 'Never- nevermore'."

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> But the Raven still beguiling all my fancy into smiling, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird, and bust and <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> door; <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Then upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore- <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt and ominous bird of yore <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Meant in croaking "Nevermore."

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core; <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamplight gloated o'er, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> But whose velvet violet lining with the lamplight gloating o'er, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> She shall press, ah, nevermore!

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Then methought the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Swung by Seraphim whose footfalls tinkled on the tufted floor. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> "Wretch," I cried, "thy God hath lent thee- by these angels he <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> hath sent thee <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Respite- respite and nepenthe, from thy memories of Lenore! <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe and forget this lost Lenore!" <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> "Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil!- prophet still, if bird or <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> devil!- <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted- <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> On this home by horror haunted- tell me truly, I implore- <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Is there- is there balm in Gilead?- tell me- tell me, I implore!" <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> "Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil- prophet still, if bird or <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> devil! <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> By that Heaven that bends above us- by that God we both adore- <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore- <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore." <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> "Be that word our sign in parting, bird or fiend," I shrieked, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> upstarting- <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> "Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore! <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken! <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Leave my loneliness unbroken!- quit the bust above my door! <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> door!" <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> And the lamplight o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> floor; <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; text-indent: 0.5in;"> Shall be lifted- nevermore! <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 15px; text-indent: 0.5in; white-space: pre;">But a dream within a dream?