 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 and...  Lessons in Elocution ... - Page 187by A.A. Griffith - 1865 - 240 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | Great Britain - 1854 - 500 pages
...grim, ungainly, ghastly, Gaunt and ominous bird of yore, Meant in croaking, ' Never more.' " 5. " Deep into that darkness peering, Long I stood there, wondering,...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
...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,... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1857 - 456 pages
...I stood there, wondering, fearing, [before; Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dar'd to dream But the silence was unbroken, and the darkness gave...word there spoken, was the whisper'd word, "Lenore!" Merely this, and nothing more. 6. Then into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning, Soon... | |
 | Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 pages
...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
...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, wondering,...there spoken was the whisper'd word "Lenore !" This I whisper'd, and an echo murmur'd back the word, " Lenore !" Merely this, and nothing more. 6. Then... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - American poetry - 1858 - 388 pages
...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,... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - American poetry - 1858 - 332 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 ; 2 But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token,... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott, Evert Augustus Duyckinck - American poetry - 1858 - 642 pages
...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,... | |
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