The Visitor Lyrics

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 someone gently rapping

Rapping at my chamber door

'Tis some visitor, I muttered

Tapping at my chamber door

Only this and nothing more

Rapping, rapping at my door

Tapping at my chamber door

Only this and nothing more

Rapping, rapping at my door

Tapping at my chamber door

Only this and nothing more

Ah, distinctly I remember

It was in the bleak December

And each separate dying ember

Wrought its ghost upon the floor

Eagerly I wished the morrow

Vainly tried to bury sorrow

Sorrow for the lost Lenore

For the rare and radiant maiden

Whom the angels name Lenore

Nameless here for evermore

Rapping, rapping at my door

Tapping at my chamber door

Only this and nothing more

Rapping, rapping at my door

Tapping at my chamber door

Only this and nothing more

And the silken, sad uncertain

Rustling of each purple curtain

Thrilled me, filled me with fantastic

Terrors never felt before

So, to still the beating heart

I stood repeating from the start

'Tis some visitor entreating

Entrance at my chamber door

Some late visitor entreating

Entrance at my chamber door

This it is and nothing more

Rapping, rapping at my door

Tapping at my chamber door

Only this and nothing more

Rapping, rapping at my door

Tapping at my chamber door

Only this and nothing more

Deep into the darkness peering

Long I stood there, wondering, fearing

Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals

Ever dared to dream before

Rapping at my chamber door

Chamber door

Only this and nothing more

Nothing more