Nevermore - Raven 10x14" original acrylic

10x14" original acrylic by Patrick O'Rourke.  This painting comes ready to hang unframed. This painting is a tribute to Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven" The RavenBY EDGAR ALLAN POE 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.”     Ah, 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 name Lenore—             Nameless here for evermore.     And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain Thrilled me—filled me with fantastic terr