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Quotation from The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

“Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe and forget this lost Lenore!”

Edgar Allan Poe (spoken by The speaker)

The Raven, Stanza 14 (1845 text (Project Gutenberg #1065))

Portrait of Edgar Allan Poe

The speaker imagines that heaven has sent a drug of forgetfulness, the nepenthe of the Odyssey.

Citation: "Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe and forget this lost Lenore!" — Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven, Stanza 14 (1845 text (Project Gutenberg #1065)). (id the-raven-q5)

Portrait: Raven Manet C2, Édouard Manet, Public domain.

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