 | Edward Harrison - Science - 2000 - 586 pages
...University Press, Cambridge, 1958. Reprint: Dover, New York. 490 24 DARKNESS AT NIGHT Deep into the darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing....dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven (1845) THE GREAT RIDDLE An inferno of stars There is a simple and important... | |
 | Mark Pierce, Karen Jennings - Education - 2004 - 102 pages
...rapping at my chamber door. "Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this and nothing more." Deep into that darkness peering,...there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before; But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token,... | |
 | Geoff Reilly, Wendy Wren - English language - 2002 - 164 pages
...Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore; But the fact is ! was napping, and so gently you came rapping, And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber...opened wide the door; Darkness there and nothing more. Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter, In there stepped a stately raven... | |
 | Paul Negri - Poetry - 2002 - 146 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...sure I heard you" — here I opened wide the door; — Deep into the darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams... | |
 | C. L. Brantley, Cynthia Johnson - Creative writing - 2002 - 319 pages
...portal, Crowned with calm leaves she stands Who gathers all things mortal With cold immortal hands. 3. Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there...dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before 4. The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yields. 5. Time drives the flocks... | |
 | Kevin J. Hayes - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 290 pages
...these literary techniques are employed repeatedly throughout the poem, as in the following couplet: Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there...dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before (P&T, 82) Occasionally, too, Poe offered suggestive allusion -to mythology ("Pallas" Pallas Athena,... | |
 | Ken Croswell - Science - 2002 - 353 pages
...opening paragraph! Likewise, his famous poem "The Raven" said: Deep into that darkness peering, longl stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming...dream before; But the silence was unbroken, and the darkness gave no token. It was cosmologist Edward Harrison who unearthed the Poe reference that correctly... | |
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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... 
