Araby

Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.

her voice was not encouraging; she seemed to have spoken to me out of a sense of duty

lamps of the street lifted their feeble lanterns

lamps of the street lifted their feeble lanterns.

The wild garden behind the house contained a central apple-tree

Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.

Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.

After an intolerable delay the train moved out of the station slowly. It crept onward among ruinous houses and over the twinkling river.

The syllables of the word Araby were called to me through the silence in which my soul luxuriated and cast an Eastern enchantment over me.

Her name sprang to my lips at moments in strange prayers and praises which I myself did not understand.