 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...  New National First[ -fifth] Reader - Page 454by Charles Joseph Barnes, J. Marshall Hawkes - 1884Full view - About this book
 | Simon Kerl - 1861 - 372 pages
...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...some visitor,' I muttered, ' tapping at my chamber dam— Only this, and nothing mdre.' "—EA Poe. From these lines it is easy to see, that in poetry... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...muttered, "tapping at my chamber-door— Only this, and nothing more.** Ah 1 distinctly T remember it waa in the bleak December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost npon the floor. Eagerly I wish*d the morrow ; — vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease... | |
 | Coventry Patmore - 1862 - 372 pages
...tapping As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. ' ' Tis some visitor,' I mutter'd, ' tapping at my chamber door — Only this and nothing...ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wish'd the morrow ; — vainly had I sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow, sorrow for... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 pages
...nothing more." 516 GLEANINGS FROM THE ENGLISH POETS. Ah ! distinctly I remember it was in the Meal; December, And each separate dying ember wrought its...vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow — sorrow for the lost Lenore — For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 pages
...rapping, rapping at my chamber-door ; " 'Tis some visitor," I mutter'd, "tapping at my chamber-door, — Only this, and nothing more." Ah ! distinctly I remember,...separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Kagerly I wish'd the morrow ; — vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow, —... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1862 - 558 pages
...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...at my chamber door — Only this and nothing more.' 2. Ah ! distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December, And each separate dying ember wrought its... | |
 | Choice poems - 1862 - 368 pages
...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...my chamber door — Only this, and nothing more." I1. Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December, And each separate dying ember wrought its... | |
 | Simon Kerl - 1862 - 430 pages
...napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. 1 'Tis some visitor,' I muttered, ' tapping at my chamber door — Only this, and nothing mare.' " — EA Poe. From these lines it is easy to sec, that in poetry the voice or the mind passes... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 796 pages
...rapping, rapping at my chamber-door ; " 'Tis some visitor," I mutter'd, " tapping at my chamber-door, — Only this, and nothing more." Ah ! distinctly I remember, it was in the bleak Deeember, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly 1 wish'd the morrow... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - 1863 - 614 pages
...'Tis some visitor," I mutter'd, " tapping at my chamber-door — Only this, and nothing more." ii. Ah, distinctly I remember, it was in the bleak December,...ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wish'd the morrow : vainly I had sought to bflrrow From my books surcease of sorrow — sorrow for... | |
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