 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 at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you" — here I opened wide the door; Darkness there...  The Raven - Page ixby Edgar Allan Poe - 1898 - 36 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | Richard Wright Procter - Poetry - 1855 - 490 pages
...that darkness peering, loug I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before ; But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token, And the only word there spoken was the whisper'd word, " Leuore !" This I... | |
 | Joseph Gostwick - American literature - 1856 - 338 pages
...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, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before ; But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token,... | |
 | Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 pages
...scarce was sure I heard you :" — here I opened wide the door; — Darkness there, and nothing more. Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before ; But the silence 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,...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, and an echo murmur'd... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - American poetry - 1858 - 642 pages
...scarce was sure 'I heard you" — here I opened wide the door ; — Darkness there and nothing more. Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood 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 - 332 pages
...I scarce was sure I heard you " — here I opened wide the door ; Darkness there and nothing more. Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there...wondering, fearing,, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before ; 2 But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token,... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - American poetry - 1858 - 388 pages
...searee was sure I heard you " — here I opened wide the door ; — Darkness there and nothing more. Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood 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,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1858 - 752 pages
...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 no mortals ever dared to dream before ; Hnt the silence was uubroken, and the stilluess gave no token,... | |
 | HENRY HOWE - 1859 - 748 pages
...I scarce was sure I heard you "—here I opened wide the door— Darkness there, and nothing more. Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there...silence was unbroken, and the darkness gave no token, And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, " Lenore !" This I whispered, and an echo murmured... | |
| |
