once again trying to memorize Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven

 I attempted this in high school and college halfheartedly but this time we'll really go for it.

I know the start. It goes

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 up 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."

Ah! How distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December

And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.

Eagerly, I wished the morrow--vainly I had sought to borrow

from my books surcease of sorrow--sorrow for the lost Lenore--

For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels named Lenore.

Nameless here for evermore. 

It's kind of harder to type it because I don't know exactly where all the line breaks are and which punctuation he uses where but I can do the first stanza well and today I was working on the second stanza.

Tomorrow I'll try to do the first two stanzas and then work on the third.

Surcease. Great word. Stoppage.