Shall Be Lifted - Nevermore

"`Prophet!' said I, `thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil!
By that Heaven that bends above us - by that God we both adore -
Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn,
It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels named Lenore -
Clasp a rare and radiant maiden, whom the angels named Lenore?'
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 Plutonian 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 shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted - nevermore!"


- The Raven, Edgar Allan Poe
Read full poem here - [link]


[If you haven't read this, I suggest you do so now. Edgar Allan Poe is one of my favourite writers ever. And no, I don't say that just to look "cool". His use of words fascinates me, he was truly the father of macabre.]


This is for GoatofWsidom -- It's her character, Nevermore.

When I saw that she named a character after Edgar Allan Poe's poem, I couldn't help but resist and draw.

This is probably one of my best colouring jobs. O_o

Mediums: Prismacolour marker, prismacolour pencil, gel pen, some random inky pen for outline, and photoshop for background.

AND THE END.