"Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door-- Perched, and sat, and nothing more." _R.G. Tietze._ "Wandering from the Nightly shore." _Frederick Juengling._ "Till I scarcely more than muttered, 'Other friends have flown before-- On the morrow _he_ will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.'" _Frank French._ "Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy unto fancy." _R. Schelling._ "But whose velvet violet lining with the lamplight gloating o'er _She_ shall press, ah, nevermore!" _George Kruell._ "'Wretch,' I cried, 'thy God hath lent thee--by these angels he hath sent thee Respite--respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore!'" _Victor Bernstrom._ "On this home by Horror haunted." _R. Staudenbaur._ "'Tell me truly, I implore-- Is there--_is_ there balm in Gilead?--tell me--tell me, I implore!'" _W. Zimmermann._ "'Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore.'" _F.S. King._ "'Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!' I shrieked, upstarting." _W. Zimmermann._ "'Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore!'" _Robert Hoskin._ "And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted--nevermore!" _R.G. Tietze._ The secret of the Sphinx. _R. Staudenbaur._ COMMENT ON THE POEM.