Gently

Famous quotes containing the word gently:

    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.
    Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)

    Shall I tell you who will come
    to Bethlehem on Christmas Morn,
    Who will kneel them gently down
    before the Lord, new-born?
    —Unknown. Words from an Old Spanish Carol (l. 1–4)

    Then gently scan your brother Man,
    Still gentler sister Woman;
    Though they may gang a kennin wrang,
    To step aside is human:
    Robert Burns (1759–1796)