Edgar Allan Poe – Oct 31, Fun with Chairs

How lucky am I, to get to read The Raven on Halloween, and teach Bakasana on Chairs.

THE RAVEN

…

Quoth the Raven "Nevermore."

“Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!" I

shrieked, upstarting—

"Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plu

tonian shore!

Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul

hath spoken!

Leave my loneliness unbroken!—quit the bust above my

door!

Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form

from off my door!

Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”

And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is

sitting

On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber

door

And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is

dreaming

And the lamp-light o’er him streaming throws his

shadow on the floor;

And my soul from out that shadows that lies floating on

the floor

Shall be lifted —nevermore!