Date: 4/6/25 4:52 pm From: Jane Frazier <janefraz2828...> Subject: Re: The Raven
Catherine,
From someone who used to teach "The Raven" in college, well done and very
apt.
Jane Frazier
On Sun, Apr 6, 2025, 11:55 AM catherine paris <cparis12010...> wrote:
>
> With apologies to Poe.
>
> Once upon a midnight dreary,
>
> while I pondered weak and weary,
>
> "Over a lifetime of effort and hope, whilst someone was ripping down
> Nature's door"
>
> Eagerly I wished the morrow; -
>
> vainly I sought to borrow
>
> From my books
>
> " of science and knowledge"
>
> surcease of sorrow - sorrow
>
> for the lost " progress and
>
> momentum"
>
> For the rare and radiant maiden
>
> "Mother earth"
>
> And the silken, sad, uncertain
> tearing of
>
> "Of each protective curtain"
>
> Filled me with terrors never felt before.
>
> Not the least obeisance made he;
>
> Not a minute stopped or stayed he.
>
> But with the mein of lord..., perched above my chamber door, was a raven
>
> By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, tell me what
> thy name is!
>
> Quote the Raven, 'Nevermore'.
>
> Caught from some unhappy master whom unmercifal Disaster followed fast and
> followed faster...
>
> till the dirges of our hope that melancholy burden bore
>
> Of 'Never -nevermore'.
>
> Take thy beak from out of my heart...
> Leave no black plume as a token of that lie
>
> thy soul hath spoken!
>
> And my soul from out that shadow
>
> shall be lifted - nevermore.
>
>
> Catherine Paris
> <cparis12010...>
> Ozark County
>
>
>
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