Line-01-001: Ah, broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever!

Line-01-002: Let the bell toll! — a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river {{1845-01: . //1845-02: , }}

Line-01-003: And, Guy De Vere, hast thou no tear? — weep now or never more!

Line-01-004: See! on yon drear and rigid bier {{1845-01: , }} low lies thy love, Lenore!

Line-01-005: Come! let the burial rite be read — the funeral song be sung! —

Line-01-006: An anthem for the queenliest dead that ever died so young —

Line-01-007: {{1845-01: A //1845-02: [[A]] }} dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young {{1845-01: ! //1845-02: . }}

 

Line-01-008: “Wretches! ye loved her for her wealth and hated her for her pride,

Line-01-009: {{1845-02: “  }} And when she fell in feeble health, ye blessed her — that she died!

Line-01-010: {{1845-02: “  }} How {{1845-01: shall // 1845-02: shall }} the ritual, then, be read? — the requiem how be sung

Line-01-011: {{1845-02: “  }} By you — by yours, the evil eye, — by yours, the slanderous tongue

Line-01-012: {{1845-02: “  }} That did to death the innocence that died, and died so {{1845-01: youug [[young]] //1845-02: young }} ?”

 

Line-01-013: Peccavimus; but rave not thus! and let a Sabbath song

Line-01-014: Go up to God so solemnly the dead may feel no wrong!

Line-01-015: The sweet Lenore hath “gone before,” with Hope, that flew beside,

Line-01-016: Leaving thee wild for the dear child that should have been thy bride —

Line-01-017: For her, the fair and debonair, that now so lowly lies,

Line-01-018: The life upon her yellow hair but not within her eyes —

Line-01-019: The life still there, upon her hair — the death upon her eyes.

 

Line-01-020: “Avaunt! {{1845-01: to night [[to-night]] //1845-02: to-night }} my heart is light. No dirge will I upraise,

Line-01-021: {{1845-02: “  }} But waft the angel on her flight with a {{1845-01: pæan //1845-02: Pœan [[Pæan]] }} of old days!

Line-01-022: {{1845-02: “  }} Let no bell toll! — lest her sweet soul, amid its hallowed mirth,

Line-01-023: {{1845-02: “  }} Should catch the note, as it doth float — up from the damnéd {{1845-01: earth //1845-02: Earth }} .

Line-01-024: {{1845-02: “  }} To friends above, from fiends below, the indignant ghost is riven —

Line-01-025: {{1845-02: “  }} From Hell unto a high estate far up within the Heaven —

Line-01-026: {{1845-02: “  }} From moan and groan, to a golden throne, beside the King of Heaven. {{1845-01:  ” //1845-02: [[”]] }}