Citations:nepenthe

English citations of nepenthe

1. (archaic) Alternative form of nepenthes (“a drug that relieves one of emotional pain, grief or sorrow”). [from 16th c.]
   • 1845 January 29, Edgar Allan Poe, “The Raven”, in The Evening Mirror, New York, N.Y.: Morris & Willis, →OCLC, page 4, column 1; reprinted in Benjamin Blake Minor, editor, The Southern Literary Messenger: Devoted to Every Department of Literature and the Fine Arts, volume XI, Richmond, Va.: B. B. Minor, editor and proprietor, March 1845, →OCLC, page 187:

     "Wretch," I cried, "thy God hath lent thee—by these angels he hath sent thee / Respite—respite and Nepenthe, from thy memories of Lenore. Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe and forget this lost Lenore!"