Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and. curious volume of forgotten lore — While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. " "Tis... The Elson Readers..: Book 5-8 ... - Page 107by William Harris Elson - 1921Full view - About this book
| Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...mother I knew By that infinity with which my wife Was dearer to my soul than its soullife. THE RAVElf. ONCE upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak...nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. " Tis some visitor," I muttered, " tapping at... | |
| Thomas Powell - American literature - 1850 - 380 pages
...stanzas differently in shape to the method he has followed, but the words are of course unaltered. " Once upon a midnight dreary, While I pondered weak...nearly napping, Suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, Rapping at my chamber door. ' "Pis some visitor,' I muttered, ' Tapping at... | |
| Thomas Powell - American literature - 1850 - 384 pages
...stanzas differently in shape to the method he has followed, but the words are of course unaltered. " Onee upon a midnight dreary, While I pondered weak and...nearly napping, Suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, Rapping at my chamber door. ' "Tis some visitor,' I muttered, ' Tapping at... | |
| 1852 - 620 pages
...thank us for adorning our pages with this piece, which is called " The Kaven," in its integrity. " Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak...nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door — 1 'Tis some visitor,' I muttered, ' tapping... | |
| Richard Green Parker - 1852 - 380 pages
...to Hope ! — " to old England and young America ! " LESSON CLXXIV. The Raven. — EDGAE A. POE 1. ONCE upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak...nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. " 'T is some visiter," I muttered, " tapping at... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1852 - 298 pages
...coffee, I shall just step over to Ponnouner's and get embalmed for a couple of hundred years. POEMS. ONCE upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak...— While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there canie a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door ; " Tis some visitor," I... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1853 - 188 pages
...with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind. EAP THE RAVEN. ONCE 'upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak...nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. " Tis some visiter," I muttered, "tapping at my... | |
| 1854 - 80 pages
...»teí reiфer beé £erjetrô SBere^rung, ïbeurer bem £errn ifi ber 2trmeu ©ebet. JU ir t tt. EA POE. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered,...nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door; " 'Tis some visitor," I muttered, " tapping at... | |
| 1854 - 562 pages
...the •" Haunted House," and that, to Edgar Allan Poe and "The Raven ;" so • repeating to myself, " Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak...nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door." I refilled my pipe, and cast an uneasy glance... | |
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