The Raven
by Edgar Allan Poe
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
" 'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door;
Only this, and nothing more."
( Ah, distinctly I remember, it was in the bleak December, )
I remember when my daughter first heard this poem read by James Earl Jones (what a voice!) she said: It's just words. How can it make you feel that way?
How indeed?
Happy Birthday Edger Allen Poe!
by Edgar Allan Poe
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
" 'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door;
Only this, and nothing more."
( Ah, distinctly I remember, it was in the bleak December, )
I remember when my daughter first heard this poem read by James Earl Jones (what a voice!) she said: It's just words. How can it make you feel that way?
How indeed?
Happy Birthday Edger Allen Poe!