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Title: {{1829-01: PREFACE //1845-02: Romance }} .
Rule: ————
Stanza: 1
Line-01-001 {{1829-01: ROMANCE //1845-02: Romance }} who loves to nod and sing {{1845-02: , }}
Line-01-002 With drowsy head and folded wing {{1845-02: , }}
Line-01-003 Among the green leaves as they shake
Line-01-004 Far down within some shadowy lake {{1845-02: , }}
Line-01-005 To me a painted paroquet
Line-01-006 Hath been — a most familiar bird —
Line-01-007 Taught me my alphabet to say —
Line-01-008 To lisp my very earliest word
Line-01-009 While in the wild wood I did lie
Line-01-010 A child — with a most knowing eye.
Stanza: 2
Line-01-011 Of late, eternal Condor years
Line-01-012 So shake the very {{1829-01: air //1845-02: Heavens }} on high
Line-01-013 With tumult, as they thunder by,
Line-01-014 I {{1829-01: hardly }} have {{1829-01: had //1845-02: no }} time for {{1845-02: idle }} cares
Line-01-015 Thro’ gazing on th’ unquiet sky {{1829-01: ! //1845-02: . }}
Line-01-016 And, when an hour with calmer wings
Line-01-017 Its down upon my spirit flings —
Line-01-018 That little time with lyre and rhyme
Line-01-019 To while away — forbidden things!
Line-01-020 My heart would feel to be a crime
Line-01-021 {{1829-01: Did it //1845-02: Unless it }} not {{1829-01: tremble //1845-02: trembled }} with the strings!
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Notes:
For an explanation of the formatting used in this Study Text, see editorial policies and methods. This format is very much an experiment, particularly for poetry. For the version with changes applied, see the full poem.
In the first line, Poe underlines “ROMANCE” and writes “l.c.” in the margin to the left of the poem, indicating that it should be converted to all lower case. eventually gaining the more proper title of “Romance”. This instruction was not followed for The Raven and Other Poems, however, as that edition adhered to the convention of presenting the first word of each poem in large and small upper case. In preparing the second line of the second stanza, the typesetter omitted the “s” from “Heavens.” Poe does print it with an “s” in his Broadway Journal, but did not mark the poem in his own copy of The Raven and Other Poems for any corrections, including restoring the “s,” although “Heavens” is probably the better reading.
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