 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
 | John Dudley Philbrick - 1868 - 636 pages
...napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. " 'T is some visitor," I muttered, " tapping at my chamber...wished the morrow ; — vainly I had sought to borrow, Fiom my books, surcease of sorrow — sorrow for the lost Lenore — For the rare and radiant maiden... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1868 - 544 pages
...napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door; " 'T is some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber...the floor; Eagerly I wished the morrow: vainly I had tried to borrow, From my books, surcease of sorrow, sorrow for the lost .Lenore, For the rare and radiant... | |
 | Andrew Comstock, Philip Lawrence - 1808 - 596 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,...bleak December, And each separate dying ember wrought iU ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wish'd the morrow : Tainly I had sought to borrow From my books... | |
 | Simon Kerl - 1868 - 396 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 more.' " — EA Poe. From these lines it is easy to see, that in poetry the voice or the mind passes along... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - 1869 - 416 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...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... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 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...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... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1869 - 264 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...Eagerly I wished the morrow — vainly I had sought to borrsw From my books surcease of sorrow — sorrow for the lost Lenore — For the rare and radiant... | |
 | Floyd Baker Wilson - 1869 - 208 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...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 named Lenore... | |
 | Charles A. Wiley - 1869 - 456 pages
..." 'Tis some visitor," I mutter'd, " tapping at my chamber-door — Only this, and nothing more." 2. Ah, distinctly I remember, it was in the bleak December,...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 named Lenore... | |
 | William Stewart Ross - 1869 - 452 pages
...— 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 I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow — sorrow for the... | |
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