 | Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 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...there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before ; But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token,... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1857 - 456 pages
...truly your forgiveness I implore ; But the fact is, I was napping, and 80 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 open'd wide the door. Darkness there, and nothing more. 5. Deep into that darkness ^peering, long I... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - American poetry - 1858 - 332 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...wondering, fearing,, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before ; 2 But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token,... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - American poetry - 1858 - 642 pages
...Madatn, 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...there wondering, fearing. Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before ; But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token,... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - American poetry - 1858 - 388 pages
...gently you eame rapping, And so faintly you eame tapping, tapping at my ehamber door, That I searee was sure I heard you " — here I opened wide the...there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to drenm before ; 2 Hut the silenee was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token,... | |
 | Lucius Osgood - Elocution - 1858 - 494 pages
...was sure I heard you :" here I open'd wide the door : — • Darkness there, and nothing more. 5. Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there,...dream before; But the silence was unbroken, and the darkness gave no token, And the only word there spoken was the whisper'd word "Lenore !" This I whisper'd,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1858 - 752 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 the door Darkness there, and nothing more, i Deap into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - American poetry - 1858 - 644 pages
...napping, and so gently you came rapping, bid so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, 'hat I scarce was sure I heard you" — here I opened wide the door; — Darkness there and nothing more. p into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing oubting, dreaming dreams no mortals... | |
 | HENRY HOWE - 1859 - 748 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...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 whispered,... | |
 | American literature - 1859 - 528 pages
...truly your forgiveness I implo»e ; But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping, And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber...That I scarce was sure I heard you" — here I opened w^de the door; Darkness there and nothing more. Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there... | |
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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... 
