[Verse 1]
Open here I flung the shutter,
when, with many a flirt and flutter,
In there stepped a stately Raven
of the saintly days of yore;
[Verse 2]
Not the least obeisance made he;
not a minute stopped or stayed he;
But, with mien of lord or lady,
perched above my chamber door-
Perched upon a bust of Pallas
just above my chamber door-
[Pre-Chorus]
Perched, and sat, and nothing more.
[Chorus]
Nevermore, nevermore
Your voice echoes through the door
I call your name into the dark
But all I hear is the raven’s mark
Nevermore, nevermore
Hope is gone, forevermore
[Verse 3]
Then this ebony bird beguiling
my sad fancy into smiling,
By the grave and stern decorum
of the countenance it wore.
[Verse 4]
"Though thy crest be shorn and shaven,
thou," I said, "art sure no craven,
Ghastly grim and ancient Raven
wandering from the Nightly shore-
Tell me what thy lordly name is
on the Night's Plutonian shore!"
[Pre-Chorus]
Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."
[Chorus]
Nevermore, nevermore
Your voice echoes through the door
I call your name into the dark
But all I hear is the raven’s mark
Nevermore, nevermore
Hope is gone, forevermore
[Verse 5]
Much I marvelled this ungainly
fowl to hear discourse so plainly,
Though its answer little meaning-
little relevancy bore;
[Verse 5]
For we cannot help agreeing
that no living human being
Ever yet was blessed with seeing
bird above his chamber door-
Bird or beast upon the sculptured
bust above his chamber door,
[Outro]
With such name as "Nevermore."
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