The Raven — Harper & Brothers edition illustrated by Gustave Doré

eS ra ; pao ey Bie ss rina ™ mn Hie it — «mM Ng De a -PHE+BAVET EY LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, Chay. Copyright Do. A Shelf__~ UNITED STATES OF Am THE RAVEN. i THE RAVEN BY ILLUSTRATED EDGAR ALLAN POE By GUSTAVE DORE WITH COMMENT BY EDMUND C. STEDMAN DON {tet 12-1883; } Keren NEW YORK HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE 1834. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1883, by HARPER & BROTHERS, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. AUl rights reserved, LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS With Names or ENGRAVERS Title-page, designed by Elihu Vedder. . : . . ; Frederich Fuengling * Nevermore.” a 4 . < 5 ; H, Claudius, G. ¥. Buechner. 1. Claudius. “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore.” . 5 ; - . RA, Muller. Ah, distinctly I remember, it was in the bleak December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.” é : : R.G. Tietze. “Eagerly I wished the morrow; vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow—sorrow for the lost Lenore.” . Bs . A. Claudius. Sorrow for the lost Lenore.” , 4 * . 5 ‘ . W. Zimmermann. For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore— Nameless here for evermore. ° 7 a . Frederick Fuengli “OT is some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door— Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door.” : g rf . WW. Zimmermann. —“Here I opened wide the door;— Darkness there, and nothing more.” . . ; Y , 5 j H. Claudius. “Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. 5 ° , ES. King. “Surely? said I, ‘surely that is something at my window lattice; Let me see, then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore.” : . , Frederick Fuengli: “Open here I flung the shutter.” Johnson. —*A stately Raven of the saintly days of yore. nade he; not a minute stopped or stayed he. Not the least obeisance above my chamber door Perched, and sat, and nothing more.” “Perched upon a bust of Pall “Wandering from the Nightly shore.” . have flown before- “Till I scarcely more than muttered, ‘Other fr On the morrow Ae will leave me,as my hopes have flown before. betook myself to linking ht gloating o’er nevermore |” “‘Wretch, I cried, ‘thy God hath lent thee—by these respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore Respit “On this home by Horror haunted. “‘Tell me truly, I implore— Is there—ds there balm in Gilead ?—tell me—tell me, I implore!” “*Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distai Aidenn, It shall cl ted maiden whom the angels name L “«Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!’ I shrieked, upstarting.” et thee back into the tempest and the Night’s Plutonian shore!” “And my soul from out that shadow th lies floating on the floor be liftel—nevermore The secret of the Sphinx. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. ngels he hath sent thee R. Staudentaur. R. G. Tietze. Frederick Fuengling. Frank French. R. Schelling. George Keruell, Victor Bernstrom. R., Staudenbaur. W. Zimmermann. ES. King. W. Zimmermann. Robert Hoskin. R. G. Tietze. R. Staudenbaur. COMMENT ON THE POEM. COMMENT HE secret of a poem, no less than a jest’s prosperity, lies in the ear of him that hears it. Yield to its spell, accept the poet's mood: this, after all, is what the sages answer when you ask them of its value. Even though the poet himself, in his other mood, tell you that his art is but sleight of hand, his food enchanter’s food, and offer to show you the trick of it,—believe him not. Wait for his prophetic hour; then give yourself to his passion, his joy or pain. | We are in Love’s hand to-day!” sings Gautier, in Swin- burne's buoyant paraphrase,—and from morn to sunset we are wafted on the violet sea: there is but one love, one May, one flowery strand. Love is eternal, all else unreal and put aside. The vision has an end, the scene changes; but we have gained something, the memory of a charm. ) A