Possible Clues:

• Endless version of poet got the bird
• Classic poem set in "bleak December"
• 72 of its 108 lines end in '-ore' sounds
• Poem hit a nerve -- unexpectedly the writer gets dropped
• Elizabeth Barrett called it ''a sensation''
• Narrative poem by Edgar Allan Poe
• Poem that begins 'Once upon a midnight dreary'
• Eerie Poe poem
• Poem with the line 'Darkness there and nothing more'
• Poem also written about storm