This week we asked you to identify the first line of the poem that includes a raven and the phrase “nevermore”. The poem is, of course, Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven and the first line is:
ONCE upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—
This was easy to find by using the LitFinder database. This database provides access to thousands of full-text poems, stories, essays, plays and speeches. Find it listed alphabetically under L on LAPL’s Research & Homework page (https://lapl.org/collections-resources/research-and-homework) and access it with your library card.
