 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1853 - 188 pages
...fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping, And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at iny chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you :"...wide the door ; Darkness there, and nothing more. v. Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Parker Willis - American literature - 1853 - 522 pages
...truly your forgiveness I implore ; But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came .rapping, And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you"-^-here I opened wide the door ; Darkness there and nothing more. Deep into that darkness peering,... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - American literature - 1854 - 580 pages
...forgiveness I implore; Hut the fact is I was napping, And so gently you came rapping, And so faintly you cnme tapping, Tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you." — Here I open'd wide the door: Darkness there, and nothing more! Deep into that darkness peering, Long I stood... | |
 | 1854 - 380 pages
...forgiveness 1 implore ; But the fact is I was napping. And so gently you came rapping, And so faintly yon came tapping, Tapping at my chamber door. That I scarce was sure I heard you,"Here I open'd wide the door : Darkness there, and nothing more ! Deep into that darkness peering,... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1855 - 530 pages
...napping, and so gently you came rapPing. And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber-door, That I scarce was sure I heard you " — here I opened...dream before ; But the silence was unbroken, and the darkness gave no token, And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, " Lenore ! " This I... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - American literature - 1855 - 474 pages
...implore ; * But the fact is I was napping, and so gently yon саше rapping, And so faintly you come tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce...dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before; Bnt the silence was unbroken, and the darkness gaye no token, And the only word there «poken vu the... | |
 | Columbiana - 1855 - 52 pages
...Here lie opened wide the door. JIMMY there, and nothing more. Darkly then at Jimmy peering, long he stood there, wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming...to dream before, But the silence was unbroken, and poor Jimmy gave no token, And the only words there spoken, \vere the words " We've met before ;" This... | |
 | Richard Wright Procter - Poetry - 1855 - 490 pages
...madam, truly your forgiveness I implore ; But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping, And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you" — ere I open'd wide the door — Deep into that darkness peering, loug I stood there wondering, fearing,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1854 - 500 pages
...this grim, ungainly, ghastly, Gaunt and ominous bird of yore, Meant in croaking, ' Never more.' " 5. " Deep into that darkness peering, Long I stood there,...fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dreamed before." When only two subjects, verbs or adjectives, are united by a conjunction they require... | |
 | Joseph Gostwick - American literature - 1856 - 338 pages
...napping, and so gently you came rapping, And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber-door, That I scarce was sure I heard you " — here I opened wide thedoor Darkness there, and nothing more. Deep into that darkness peering long I stood there wondering,... | |
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This it is and nothing more." Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer, "Sir," said I, "or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore; But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping, And so faintly you came tapping, tapping... 
