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 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.

 

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

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

Line-01-010: “How shall the ritual, then, be read? — the requiem how be sung

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

Line-01-012: “That did to death the innocence that died, and died so young?”

 

Line-01-013: Peccavimus {{1845-01: ; //1845-02: ; }} 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! to-night my heart is light. No dirge will I upraise,

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

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

Line-01-023: “Should catch the note, as it doth float — up from the damnéd Earth.

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

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

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