[00:09.466]Once upon a midnight dreary
[00:12.759]While I pondered, weak and weary
[00:16.660]Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore
[00:22.096]While I nodded, nearly napping
[00:25.191]Suddenly there came a tapping
[00:27.799]As of someone gently rapping
[00:30.278]Tapping at my chamber door
[00:33.460]Tis some visitor I muttered
[00:36.027]Tapping at my chamber door
[00:38.077]Only this, and nothing more
[00:43.510]Ah, distinctly I remember it was in a bleak december
[00:48.160]And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor
[00:53.069]Eagerly I wished the morrow
[00:55.068]Vainly I had sought to borrow from my books
[00:58.432]Surcease of sorrow
[01:00.573]Sorrow for the lost lenore
[01:03.475]For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name lenore
[01:08.545]Nameless here for evermore
[01:23.807]And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain
[01:29.608]Thrilled me filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before
[01:34.947]Presently to still the beating of my heart
[01:38.337]I stood repeating
[01:40.113]Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door
[01:45.611]Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door
[01:51.217]Merely this, and nothing more
[02:14.318]Out into the darkness peering
[02:16.875]Long I stood there wondering, fearing
[02:19.907]Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before
[02:25.218]But the silence was unbroken
[02:27.357]And the stillness gave no token
[02:30.352]And the only word there spoken was the whispered word
[02:34.321]Lenore!
[02:35.654]This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word
[02:39.653]Lenore!
[02:40.894]Merely this, and nothing more
[02:48.735]Back into the chamber turning
[02:51.085]All my soul within me burning
[02:54.127]Soon again I heard a tapping
[02:56.510]Somewhat louder than before
[02:59.206]Surely, said I
[03:00.529]Surely that is someone at my window lattice:
[03:04.610]Let me see, then, what thereat is
[03:07.053]And this mystery explore
[03:09.877]Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore
[03:15.295]Tis the wind and nothing more
[03:22.851]Open wide I flung the shutter
[03:25.449]When, with many a flirt and flutter
[03:27.991]In there stepped a stately raven
[03:30.622]Of the saintly days of yore
[03:33.186]Not the least obeisance made he
[03:36.015]Not a minute stopped or stayed he
[03:38.525]But, with mien of lord or lady
[03:40.996]Perched above my chamber door
[03:43.965]Perched upon a bust of pallas
[03:46.289]Just above my chamber door
[03:49.191]Perched, and sat, and nothing more
[04:12.432]Soon that ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling
[04:18.000]By the grave and stern decorum
[04:20.305]Of the countenance it wore
[04:22.997]Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou
[04:25.793]I said, art sure no craven
[04:28.324]Ghastly grim and ancient raven
[04:30.732]Wandering on the nightly shore
[04:33.375]Tell me what thy lordly name is
[04:35.980]On this night's plutonian shore!
[04:39.010]Quoth the raven
[04:41.514]Nevermore
[04:46.874]Now the raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only
[04:52.274]That one word, as if his soul
[04:54.554]In that one word he did outpour
[04:57.386]Nothing further then he uttered
[04:59.933]Not a feather then he fluttered
[05:02.550]Till I scarcely more than muttered
[05:05.298]Other friends have gone before
[05:08.195]On the morrow he will leave me
[05:10.649]As my hopes have flown before
[05:13.755]Quoth the raven
[05:16.601]Nevermore
[05:21.978]Then methought the air grew denser
[05:24.666]Perfumed by an unseen censer
[05:27.496]Swung by seraphim whose footfalls tinkled on the tufted floor
[05:32.598]Once more on the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking
[05:37.900]Fancy unto fancy, thinking
[05:40.523]What this ominous bird of yore
[05:43.047]What this grim, ungainly, ghastly
[05:45.703]Gaunt and ominous bird of yore
[05:48.300]Meant in croaking
[05:50.940]Nevermore
[06:11.703]Prophet! Said I
[06:13.029]Thing of evil!
[06:14.266]Prophet still, if bird or devil!
[06:17.057]Whether tempter sent
[06:18.503]Or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore
[06:22.218]Desolate yet all undaunted, on this
[06:25.170]Desert isle enchanted on this
[06:27.668]Home by horror haunted tell me truly, I implore
[06:32.476]Is there is there balm in gilead?
[06:35.172]Tell me tell me, I implore!
[06:38.040]Quoth the raven
[06:40.444]Nevermore
[06:42.826]Prophet! Said I
[06:44.115]Thing of evil prophet still, if bird or devil!
[06:47.732]By that heaven stretched above us
[06:50.099]By that god we both adore
[06:52.637]Tell this soul with sorrow laden
[06:55.169]If, within the distant aidenn
[06:57.610]It shall clasp a sainted maiden
[07:00.126]Whom the angels name lenore
[07:02.756]Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name lenore
[07:07.999]Quoth the raven
[07:10.488]Nevermore
[07:13.022]Be that word our sign in parting
[07:15.529]Bird or fiend, I shrieked, upstarting
[07:17.939]Get thee back into the tempest
[07:20.337]And the night's plutonian shore!
[07:22.600]Leave no black plume as a token
[07:25.023]Of that lie thy soul hath spoken!
[07:27.526]Leave my loneliness unbroken!
[07:30.049]Quit the bust above my door!
[07:32.622]Take thy beak from out my heart
[07:34.719]And take thy form from off my door!
[07:38.002]Quoth the raven
[07:40.256]Nevermore
[07:51.131]Now the raven, never flitting
[07:53.614]Still is sitting, still is sitting
[07:56.672]On the pallid bust of pallas
[07:58.921]Just above my chamber door
[08:01.892]And his eyes have all the seeming
[08:04.322]Of a demon's that is dreaming
[08:07.257]And the lamplight o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor
[08:12.665]And my soul from out that shadow
[08:15.195]That lies floating on the floor
[08:18.081]Will be lifted
[08:21.702]Nevermore!