 | England - English poetry - 1860 - 532 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...there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before ; But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token,... | |
 | Warren P. Edgarton - Recitations - 1860 - 530 pages
...door; — This it is, and nothing more." But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapAnd so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber...darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Douhting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before ; But the silence was unbroken, and... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - Readers - 1860 - 450 pages
...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 open'd wide the door : Darkness there, and nothing more ! , Deep into that darkness peering, Long I... | |
 | Henry Howe - United States - 1861 - 844 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,... | |
 | John Williamson Palmer - Folk songs - 1861 - 540 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 n0 mortal Ever dared to dream before ; But the silence was unbroken, And the darkness gave no token,... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Bible stories - 1861 - 550 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...wide the door — Darkness there and nothing more. 5. Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams... | |
 | Alexander Clark - 1861 - 332 pages
...the neglected grave of Poe, his own^wild words were not an unfit expression of our silent musings : " 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 whispered word, ' Lenore !' This / whispered,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 pages
...you came tapping, tapping at my chamber-door, That 1 scarce was sure I heard you," — -here I open'd wide the door, — Darkness there, and nothing more....silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token, Aad the only word there spoken was the whisper'd word, "Lenore!" This I whisper'd, and an echo inurmur'd... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 pages
...napping, and so gently you came rapping, And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamberdoor, That I scarce was sure I heard you" — here I opened...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 Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1862 - 796 pages
...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....mortal ever dared to dream before; But the silence was uubroken, and the stilluess gave no token, And the only word there spoken was the whisper'd word. "Lenore!"... | |
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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... 
