 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...  A Treasure Chest of Memories - Seite 288von Joe Mitchell Chapple - 1911 - 447 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Princeton Review (Firm) - 2004 - 204 Seiten
...by naming their football team after him. Here is the first stanza of Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven": Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak...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... | |
 | Mark Axelrod - 2004 - 200 Seiten
...the United States by advocating the same economic philosophy, thus confirming Graham's genius. 25. "Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak...nodded nearly napping suddenly there came a tapping, of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door." The truth is, the tapping at the chamber door... | |
 | Bill Sherk - 2004 - 315 Seiten
...napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. ""Pis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber...more." Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor... 1773 GALLICIZE Once more... | |
 | Editors of the American Heritage Di - 2004 - 374 Seiten
...words-such as quamt-when writing about antiquarian topics, as Edgar Allan Poe did in his famous lines: "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak...Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore." «~|~hree quarks for Muster Mark!/Sure he hasn't got I much of a bark/And sure any he has it's... | |
 | Vivian R. Pollak - 2004 - 312 Seiten
...one need only think of the hypnotic alliteration and rhythms of Poe's extremely popular "The Raven." Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak...Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten loreWhile I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping As of some one gently rapping, rapping... | |
 | Lorraine LaCroix - 2005 - 161 Seiten
...The cause of his death continues to be a mystery. INSPIRED ENGLISH Name Date Period E dgar Allan Poe Once upon a midnight dreary. while I pondered. weak...nearly napping. suddenly there came a tapping. As of some one gently rapping. rapping at my chamber door, Excerpt from "the Raven" Notes: Annabel Lee by... | |
 | Gregory Sarno - 2005 - 417 Seiten
...version of "The Raven." Tentative at first, he recites with growing authority as time passes. NEIL Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak...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... | |
 | Frank Lloyd Wright - 2005 - 604 Seiten
...again. This time listening to "The Raven." Measured footsteps, father's voice reciting . . . . . . As of someone gently rapping — Rapping at my chamber..."Tapping at my chamber door; Only this and nothing more" Interval : Slowly walking And the silken, sad, uncertain Rustling of each purple curtain Thrilled me... | |
 | Stephen Fry - 2006 - 396 Seiten
...very familiar example is Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Raven': •O ••:.: •: *O »O »O ••::• »O Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak...someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. You will notice Poe chooses to end the even-numbered lines strongly, docking the final weak syllable,... | |
 | William Roetzheim - 2006 - 760 Seiten
...light of the love of my Annie — with the thought of the light of the eyes of my Annie. The Raven1 Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak...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... | |
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