“There were three ravens sat on a tree, They were as black as they might be. The one of them said to his mate, “Where shall we our breakfast take?” Anonymous: Ballads
“She buried him before the prime, She was dead herself ere evensong time. God send every gentleman Such hounds, such hawks, and such leman. Anonymous: Ballads
““Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore— Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore!” Quoth the Raven, “Nevermore.” Edgar Allan Poe
“And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door. Edgar Allan Poe