...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...gaunt, and ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking ' Never more.' Thus I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes...

...melancholy burden bore, of ' Never — nevermore,' " and till we too, his readers, betake ourselves to linking Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous...ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking ' Nevermore.' How the dismal burden rhymes drearily with " the memories of Lenore,'' — how to the haunted man's...

...or she happens to be reading. Sitting in the calm retirement of my own arm-chair on Whit• Monday, "engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing to the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core"— I allude to the pipe of bird's-eye to which poverty has reduced me—...

...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...syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core ; This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining On the cushion's...

...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...syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core; This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining On the cushion's...

...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...syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core; This and more 1 sat divining, with my head at ease reclining On the cushion's...

...velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancv unto fancv, thinking what this ominous bird of vore— What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous...syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core; This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining On the cushion's...

...compulsion-to-sense" (p- 99) — cannot be evaded, as the next stanza indicates: Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy unto fancy, thinking...ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking "Nevermore." The final absorption in the project of understanding is emphasized here by the enjambment on the word...

...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...syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core; This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining On the cushion's...

...burden bore Of 'Never — nevermore.' '' Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking 70 Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird...syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core; 75 This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining On the...