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 nothing more. New National Fifth Reader - Page 455by Charles Joseph Barnes - 1884 - 480 pagesFull view - About this book
| Edgar Allan Poe - 2000 - 678 pages
...I scarce was sure I heard you" — here I opened wide the door; Darkness there and nothing more. 25 Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there...the only word there spoken was the whispered word, "Lenore?" This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, "Lenore!" 30 Merely this and nothing... | |
| Robert X. Leeds - 1999 - 366 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...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... | |
| Edward Harrison - 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 - 2004 - 102 pages
...door. "Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this 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,... | |
| Paul Negri - 2002 - 146 pages
...chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you" — here I opened wide the door; — Deep into the darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,...the only word there spoken was the whispered word, "Lenore!" This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word "Lenore!" Merely this, and nothing more.... | |
| Kevin J. Hayes - 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,... | |
| C. L. Brantley, Cynthia Johnson - 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... | |
| Ken Croswell - 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... | |
| Richard Alan Krieger - 2007 - 344 pages
..."Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." — "Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there,...dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before." — "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." — Edgar Allan Poe "The dreamers of the... | |
| T J Dadson, Derek Flitter - 2003 - 208 pages
...su torre quien llora, en versos de una fuerza rítmica extraordinaria, la muerte de su amada Lenore: Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there...the only word there spoken was the whispered word, "Lenore!" This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word "Lenore!" Merely this and nothing more.15... | |
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