The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

Category: Poems

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 dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore

                 Of 'Never- nevermore'."