The famous first stanza of The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe. Poe was a master of macabre and few poets have matched his sinister eloquence. Read this poem on your own by candlelight and spinal chills are guaranteed.

The Raven

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. “Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door — Only this, and nothing more.”